ST ALi head roaster Chris Bonney remembers 1976 as the year he bought his first pocket camera complete with personalisable stickers and as the year Rianjagi Factory was built in Embu County, Kenya. We don’t know why a preteen American kid was thinking about Kenyan coffee production, but that’s our Chris for you.
Rianjagi Factory is a washing station owned by a collective of farmers called the Rianjagi Farmers Cooperative (RFC) who use this enterprise to provide farming input, agronomy training and marketing assistance, with a focus on sustainable practices and minimal environmental impact. RFC farmers, like most in Kenya, are smallholders usually growing crops on less than 1 hectare of land and focused on the well known Kenyan varieties SL28, SL34, Ruiri 11 and Batian.
This coffee contains all four varieties to make a truly exceptional cup that embodies and elevates the best of washed Kenyan flavours, with sparkling acidity and complexity for daaayys - it’s no exaggeration to say we raved about this coffee for weeks after first trying it at ST ALi HQ, and have been eagerly anticipating this release.
