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

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

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

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🇰🇪Kenya

Kenya Weithaga

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website

TagsKenya Murang'a County Arabica Single origin AA Intelligentsia Coffee Owned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)Variety undisclosed

🇰🇪Kenya

Brand

Intelligentsia Coffee

Who owns the brand

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

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇰🇪Kenya

Region

Murang'a County

Town

—

Farm / Station

—

Farmer / Producer

Weithaga smallholder producers

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Variety

—

Process

—

Roast

—

Tasting notes

juicy citrus, stone fruit

Fermentation

—

Drying

—

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

townThe exact release and authoritative cooperative context do not establish Kahuro as this lot’s town; the previous value was removed.
varietyThe official exact page does not disclose the cultivar mix. Cherrybook lists SL28, SL34 and Ruiru 11, but these were not promoted without primary exact-release confirmation.
processThe official page praises milling precision but does not identify this release’s processing method.
altitude mThe Aberdare Mountain range is identified, but no lot-specific elevation is published.
harvestSpring 2023 is the selection date, not a published harvest date.
fermentationNo exact-release fermentation vessel or duration is disclosed.
drying methodNo exact-release drying surface or duration is disclosed.
roast levelThe exact release does not publish a conventional light-to-dark roast level.
roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is available for the archived sold-out listing.

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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 Weithaga
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Intelligentsia Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Intelligentsia Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
05
The farm
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
06
The farmer
Weithaga smallholder producers
Documented
07
The region
Murang'a County
Named on the bag
08
The country
🇰🇪Kenya
Documented

From the producer

More than 800 smallholder producers in Kenya’s Aberdare Mountain range delivered the Weithaga AA lot. Intelligentsia purchased it with help from Mbula Musau of Utake Coffee and BD Imports.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia documents more than 800 Aberdare smallholders, selection with Mbula Musau of Utake Coffee and BD Imports, and purchase through the Nairobi Coffee Exchange. The exact page contains a flavor conflict: sensory prose says juicy citrus and stone fruit, while a structured label says chocolate and molasses.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A traceable multi-smallholder AA lot whose official page unusually documents the blind-selection and Nairobi Coffee Exchange purchase path.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Reconciled structured commerce fields

Matched the structured record to the exact official $25 listing and exact 340 g catalog entry; removed the placeholder grade and recorded the official AA designation.

Kept the producer structure accurate

Retained more than 800 contributing smallholders and no single farm relationship; the coffee is an aggregated Weithaga producer lot rather than one estate.

Documented the buying path

Preserved Intelligentsia’s spring 2023 blind selection at Mbula Musau’s Utake Coffee lab and the Nairobi Coffee Exchange purchase path with BD Imports.

Separated conflicting flavor labels

Kept the official sensory prose of juicy citrus and stone fruit separate from the same page’s Chocolate + Molasses structured label and Cherrybook’s plum, ruby red grapefruit and currant snapshot.

Removed unsupported town precision

Cleared Kahuro from the town field because the exact release and authoritative cooperative context establish Murang'a County and the Aberdare range, but not Kahuro as this lot’s town.

What was added?

No added fruit, culture, or flavoring is disclosed.

What wasn't added?

No cultivar, process, elevation, harvest, fermentation, drying protocol, roast level, owner score, or public-sentiment score was inferred.

Why it matters

The reconciliation aligns the machine-readable fields with the narrative evidence, avoids presenting an aggregated wet-mill lot as a single farm, and prevents a nearby locality from appearing as exact lot provenance.

What you might taste

Intelligentsia’s sensory prose says juicy citrus and stone fruit. Its separate Chocolate + Molasses label and Cherrybook’s plum, ruby red grapefruit and currant snapshot are preserved as distinct source statements.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/kenya-weithaga
· https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-kenya-weithaga
· https://www.afa.go.ke/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Coffee-Yearbook-Small.pdf

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 2026-10-30) 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 62 CBI is explicitly an evidence-of-quality index, not a cup score, and its Reddit material concerns Intelligentsia generally. Beans with Beanie provides an exact catalog card but no exact written review or rating. Reviews of other roasters’ Weithaga coffees were excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farmer: Weithaga smallholder producers →

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Kenya Weithaga

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

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