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

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Kenya Konyu AB; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Kenya Konyu AB; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Kenya Konyu AB; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇰🇪Kenya · Kirinyaga

Kenya Konyu AB

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsKenyaKirinyagaSL28SL34BatianRuiruWashedOrangeArabicaSingle originKabare Society membersIntelligentsia CoffeeOwned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
🇰🇪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
—
Farmer / Producer
Kabare Society members
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
SL-28, SL-34, Batian and Ruiru
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Grape, Orange, Violet
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • FARMKonyu Coffee Factory is a wet mill serving Kabare cooperative smallholders, not an individual farm; member farms are not named.
  • HARVESTThe October 2024 exact release story does not publish a crop year or harvest window.
  • VARIETY PROPORTIONSSL-28, SL-34, Batian and Ruiru are named, but their proportions are not disclosed.
  • EXACT-LOT FERMENTATIONStation documentation describes processing norms, but Intelligentsia does not publish a duration, vessel or atmosphere for this release.
  • EXACT-LOT DRYINGRaised-bed norms are documented for the station, but a release-specific surface and duration are not demonstrated.
  • CONVENTIONAL ROAST LEVELThe release does not publish a conventional Light–Dark roast classification.
  • PUBLIC SENTIMENT RATINGNo independent exact-release numeric tasting rating qualified; Cherrybook's index and roaster-level signals 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.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Kenya Konyu AB
  2. 02
    The brand
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    SL-28, SL-34, Batian and Ruiru
  5. 05
    The farm
    Not disclosed
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Kabare Society members
  7. 07
    The region
    Kirinyaga
  8. 08
    The country
    🇰🇪Kenya
From the producer

Member smallholders of Kabare Farmers’ Cooperative Society grow the lot near Mount Kenya and deliver cherry to Konyu Coffee Factory for centralized processing and grading.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia describes the release as a highly expressive Kirinyaga coffee shaped by frequent cherry picking, meticulous processing and Kenya’s AB size-and-density grade.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The profile connects the coffee to the exact wet mill rather than only to the parent cooperative, while preserving the mixed-variety identity of the lot.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Verified the archived release

Confirmed the AB identity, cooperative, wet mill, average elevation, variety mix and grape/orange/violet release notes from Intelligentsia's October 2024 story.

02
Reconciled catalog metadata

Added the supported $27/340 g sold-out retail snapshot while keeping its later dynamic notes separate from the archived article's notes.

03
Corrected provenance overreach

Removed station-level fermentation and drying timings from exact-lot structured fields because the release source does not demonstrate those protocols for this lot.

04
Protected scoring boundaries

Added no owner score or public sentiment rating because no qualifying independent exact-release tasting score was found.

What was added?

Structured $27 USD pricing, 340 g package, sold-out verification and refreshed exact-release provenance.

What wasn't added?

No individual farm, harvest, variety percentages, exact-lot fermentation or drying protocol, conventional roast level, owner score or public sentiment score was inferred.

Why it matters

The record now distinguishes exact-release facts from station-level processing context and from a later dynamic catalog snapshot.

What you might taste

Grape, orange and violet according to Intelligentsia's archived release story; these are roaster notes, not an owner tasting observation.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/blogs/stories/kenya-konyu-ab
  • · https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-kenya-konyu-ab
  • · https://www.kenyacoffee.co.ke/resources/2023/Coffee%20Book%20Year%202023-24-compressed.pdf
  • · https://climatesmart.coffee/farmers/kabare-farmers-cooperative-society
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

Cherrybook's CBI is explicitly an evidence-of-quality index using sparse per-lot and roaster-level signals, not an exact-release cup score. Catalog pages and reviews of Konyu coffee roasted by other companies were excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farmer: Kabare Society members →
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