Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Karagoto AB, Washed SL28, SL34, Batian & Ruiru 11, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Karagoto AB, Washed SL28, SL34, Batian & Ruiru 11; not a documentary photograph

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🇰🇪Kenya · Nyeri

Karagoto AB, Washed SL28, SL34, Batian & Ruiru 11

Roasted by Drop CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsKenya Nyeri Washed Plum Arabica Single origin Karagoto Factory Drop Coffee

🇰🇪KenyaWashedField Blend

Brand

—

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇰🇪Kenya

Region

Nyeri

Town

—

Farm / Station

Karagoto Factory

Farmer / Producer

Karagoto Factory

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Field Blend

Process

Roast

—

Tasting notes

Plum, Rosehip, Blackcurrant Lemonade

Fermentation

24–36 hours under shade; washed and soaked 6–12 hours

Drying

Metallic raised beds, 16 days

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

—

Why some details are blank

individual farmsThe exact lot is pooled from more than 1,700 cooperative members; individual contributing farms are not enumerated.
roast levelThe exact product page does not publish a conventional light, medium, or dark roast label.

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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
Karagoto AB, Washed SL28, SL34, Batian & Ruiru 11
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
03
The roaster
Drop Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Field Blend
Documented
05
The farm
Karagoto Factory
Documented
06
The farmer
Karagoto Factory
Documented
07
The region
Nyeri
Documented
08
The country
🇰🇪Kenya
Documented

From the producer

Karagoto Factory is operated by the Tekangu Farmers Cooperative Society in Nyeri. The station receives cherry from more than 1,700 smallholder members and is managed by Ephraim Maina Muthee.

From the roaster

Flavour Description: This coffee has an aroma of plums . The taste profile is warm yet vibrant , with flavour notes of rosehip and a cooling and a texture reminding of black currant lemonde.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

An unusually transparent Kenyan AB lot: the current listing documents the cooperative, four varieties, exact station altitude, January 2026 processing, fermentation, soaking, drying time, and FOB price.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Smallholder delivery

More than 1,700 Tekangu cooperative members deliver hand-sorted cherry to Karagoto Factory.

Washed processing

The depulped coffee is density graded, fermented under shade for 24–36 hours, washed, and soaked for 6–12 hours.

Controlled drying

This lot dried for 16 days on metallic raised beds before export.

What was added?

Full description, Nyeri link, exact cooperative, four-variety composition, fermentation, soaking, lot-specific drying, current tasting notes, and sold-out status.

What wasn't added?

No single variety link is retained because the lot combines four varieties. No public-sentiment score was added because independent exact-release evidence was not found.

Why it matters

The old profile named the wrong cooperative, used stale tasting notes and availability, and presented contextual sentiment as if it described this exact release.

What you might taste

Plum aroma and rosehip brightness with a cooling blackcurrant-lemonade impression.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.dropcoffee.com/collections/beans/products/karagoto-ab-washed-sl28-sl34-batian-ruiru-11

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 2026-10-14) 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

Non-exact, seller, directory, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded. No qualifying independent exact-release review remains.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Karagoto Factory →Meet the farmer: Karagoto Factory →

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Karagoto AB, Washed SL28, SL34, Batian & Ruiru 11

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

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