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🇰🇪Kenya · Embu

Kamavindi - Kenya - Washed SL34 (AB)

Roasted by April Coffee RoastersRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsKenya Embu SL34 Washed Light roast Plum Arabica Single origin Kamavindi Estate Peter Mbature April Coffee Roasters

🇰🇪KenyaWashedSL34Light roast

Brand

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Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇰🇪Kenya

Region

Embu

Town

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Farm / Station

Kamavindi Estate

Farmer / Producer

Peter Mbature

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

SL34

Process

Roast

Light

Tasting notes

Berries, Red Apple, Plum

Fermentation

20 hours in parchment, light wash, then a further 20-hour hold before final washing

Drying

Raised beds in a temperature-monitored drying room for 14–18 days; ambient temperature kept at or below 24°C

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

gradeThe release specifies the Kenyan AB screen class, but this schema's formal grade field does not represent AB; no Specialty/Premium grade was inferred.
roast dateNo bag-specific roast date was verified; April publishes a roast style rather than one immutable roast date.

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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
Kamavindi - Kenya - Washed SL34 (AB)
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
03
The roaster
April Coffee Roasters
Documented
04
The variety
SL34
Documented
05
The farm
Kamavindi Estate
Documented
06
The farmer
Peter Mbature
Documented
07
The region
Embu
Documented
08
The country
🇰🇪Kenya
Documented

From the producer

Peter Mbature manages Kamavindi Estate with his mother, Hellen Weveti, and sister, Gladwell Wanjira. The family estate was established by the late John Njiru Mbature in 1958 and operates its own wet and dry processing.

From the roaster

April Coffee Roasters lists this as a light-roasted filter coffee from a 300 kg separated lot, with berries, red apple and plum.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A separately processed SL34 AB lot from a family estate with its own wet and dry infrastructure, using a closely controlled two-stage washed process and temperature-monitored drying.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Sort and pulp

Ripe cherry was floated and skimmed, then pulped with a two-disk pulper.

Ferment and wash

Parchment fermented for 20 hours, received a light wash, was held another 20 hours, then received a final wash.

Dry

Parchment dried on raised beds for 14–18 days in a temperature-monitored room kept at or below 24°C.

What was added?

No adjuncts are disclosed.

What wasn't added?

The published process does not disclose fruit, spices, flavorings or inoculated cultures.

Why it matters

The staged wash and controlled drying are intended to limit uneven fermentation and preserve clarity.

What you might taste

April lists berries, red apple and plum.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.aprilcoffeeroasters.com/product/kamavindi-kenya-washed-sl34-ab
· https://www.aprilcoffeeroasters.com/coffee-inf-recipes/kamavindi

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 2026-10-21) 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

Exact-name searches were repeated on 2026-10-21. April and retailer copy were excluded from independent public sentiment; no exact-release community rating with a transparent sample count qualified.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Kamavindi Estate →Meet the farmer: Peter Mbature →

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