Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Kenya Kiangoi AA, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Kenya Kiangoi AA; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇰🇪Kenya · Kirinyaga

Kenya Kiangoi AA

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsKenya Kirinyaga Ruiru 11 SL28 SL34 Washed Grapefruit Plum Arabica Single origin Kiangoi Coffee Factory Intelligentsia Coffee Owned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)

Not tasted. Not scored.

🇰🇪KenyaWashed

Brand

Intelligentsia Coffee

Who owns the brand

A large corporation — Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇰🇪Kenya

Region

Kirinyaga

Town

—

Farm / Station

Kiangoi Coffee Factory

Farmer / Producer

Rungeto Farmers Cooperative Society

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

—

Variety

Ruiru 11, SL-28 and SL-34

Process

Roast

—

Tasting notes

Ruby Red Grapefruit, Red Currant, Plum

Fermentation

Fermented after depulping; duration not disclosed

Drying

Raised beds for two weeks

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

—

Why some details are blank

POINT ALTITUDEThe current exact release publishes a 1,600–1,700 m range; no midpoint was invented as a point elevation.
VARIETY PROPORTIONSRuiru 11, SL-28 and SL-34 are verified, but the exact release does not disclose proportions.
FERMENTATIONThe coffee is washed and fermentation is mentioned, but the current exact page does not publish duration, vessel or atmosphere.
CONVENTIONAL ROAST LEVELIntelligentsia's proprietary Bright profile does not map unambiguously to the site's Light–Dark enum.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT RATINGNo independent exact-current-release numeric tasting rating qualified; catalog and roaster-level indices were excluded.

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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

01
The name on the bag
Kenya Kiangoi AA
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Intelligentsia Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Intelligentsia Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Ruiru 11, SL-28 and SL-34
Named on the bag
05
The farm
Kiangoi Coffee Factory
Documented
06
The farmer
Rungeto Farmers Cooperative Society
Documented
07
The region
Kirinyaga
Documented
08
The country
🇰🇪Kenya
Documented

From the producer

Members of Rung'eto Farmers Cooperative Society grow the coffee; Kiangoi Coffee Factory serves as the centralized washing station. The existing factory and cooperative records remain linked without representing the contributor network as a single estate.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia presents the current release as a vibrant, expressive Kirinyaga coffee under its proprietary Bright roast profile.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Intelligentsia documents the complete station workflow from cherry delivery through AA milling. The release combines cooperative-scale production with the bright fruit profile associated with carefully prepared Kirinyaga coffees.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Verified the current edition

Recorded the live $25/10 oz in-season offer, 2025 harvest, current notes and technical details from Intelligentsia.

Separated reused-URL versions

Kept the older $27/340 g sold-out Cherrybook capture as historical edition evidence instead of merging its notes or package.

Protected scoring boundaries

Added no owner score or public sentiment rating because no independent exact-current-release tasting score qualified.

What was added?

Structured $25 USD pricing, current availability verification, refreshed exact-release provenance, and explicit evidence boundaries.

What wasn't added?

No point elevation, variety percentages, fermentation protocol, conventional roast level, original tasting score or public sentiment score was inferred.

Why it matters

The public profile now aligns its structured commerce fields with the current 2025-harvest edition while preserving older edition context without conflation.

What you might taste

Ruby Red Grapefruit, Red Currant and Plum, according to Intelligentsia; these are roaster notes, not an owner tasting observation.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/kenya-kiangoi-aa
· https://thepress.coffee/coffees/kenya/washed/
· https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-kenya-kiangoi-aa
· https://sucafina.com/na/offerings/kiangoi-aa

Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-11-02) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

The Press is an exact catalog corroboration without a tasting rating. Cherrybook's indexed page describes an older release and explicitly labels its CBI an evidence-of-quality score rather than a cup score. Reviews of Kiangoi roasted by other companies were excluded as different coffees.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Kiangoi Coffee Factory →Meet the farmer: Rungeto Farmers Cooperative Society →

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FROM THE BAGBACK TO THE LAND.

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

What the internet is saying about this coffee

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