{"product_id":"muchagara-ab-kenya-copy","title":"Muchagara AB Kenya","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePUNCHY, COOKED FRUIT, SPARKLING.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProducer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Multiple Smallholder Producers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLocation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kirinyaga County, Kenya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElevation:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1700-1800 meters\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVariety: \u003c\/strong\u003eSL28, SL34\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProcess:\u003c\/strong\u003e Washed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuchagara has been milling coffee since 1959, which makes it the first coffee processing factory in Kenya's Kirinyaga County and one of the oldest in the country. The station falls under the Baragwi Farmers' Co-operative Society. The Baragwi Farmers' Cooperative Society oversees Muchagara along with 11 other facilities, with just shy of 17,000 members growing and delivering coffee across their total of 12 factories. Muchagara alone receives cherry from about 1,531 smallholders in the surrounding area, most tending somewhere between 200 and 500 coffee trees apiece on volcanic soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe processing follows Kenya's double fermentation method, cherry gets depulped and fermented, then moved to soaking tanks where any remaining mucilage gets rinsed off in clean water, followed by a second fermentation period before the coffee heads to the drying beds for 10 to 15 days. Though the exact amount of time in the tank shifts a bit from harvest to harvest depending on how fast the fermentation moves. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe varieties here are mostly SL28 and SL34, the two cultivars you'll find across most of Kirinyaga, bred decades ago for cup quality more than yield. This lot is graded as an AB, a size below the AA that tends to get more attention at auction. The size grading has more to do with how the coffee gets sorted for export than with how it tastes. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the cup, Muchagara is giving us some serious roasted strawberry or cooked plum notes with an effervescent finish that makes this coffee not only well rounded but deeply satisfying. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pastime Coffee","offers":[{"title":"10oz","offer_id":52669719085349,"sku":"coffee:singleorigin:kenya:muchagaraab:10oz","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2lb","offer_id":52669719118117,"sku":"coffee:singleorigin:kenya:muchagaraab:2lb","price":59.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"5lb","offer_id":52669719150885,"sku":"coffee:singleorigin:kenya:muchagaraab:5lb","price":131.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0853\/1532\/2149\/files\/Muchagara.png?v=1782833451","url":"https:\/\/pastime.coffee\/products\/muchagara-ab-kenya-copy","provider":"PASTIME COFFEE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}