Kenya Baragwi AA | fully washed

Guama Coffee Washing Station is owned and operated by Baragwi Farmers‘ Cooperative Society. This smallholder farmer’s owned factory was started in 1986 with over 3500 smallholder farmers. the size of the farm in this catchment of this coop is typically a little less than normal with the average farmer possessing 300 coffee bushes.

The cherry is delivered at the wet mill ,it is handsorted to remove any foreign matter and also remove blacks then weighed and recorded. It is then introduced to cherry hopper to be pulped.

Once pulped using a 4 disc pulper, cherries are delivered to one of the factory’s fermentation tanks where it will ferment for about 16-24 hours depending on the ambient temperature at that time. The coffee is then fully washed on gradient water channels to remove traces of all mucilage.

The parchment will then be delivered to factory’s raised drying beds where it will dry slowly over the course of around 10-18 days. During very hot days it is covered using a shade net.

The dried parchment is then transported to own mill (Baragwi Farmer’s Cooperative has their own dry mill in Kirinyaga county) where it is milled and graded to different grades within 3 days.

Once fully milled, this coffee is taken to a coffee storage warehouse in Nairobi county (Africa Global Logistics) where it is stored until it is auctioned.