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

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

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

Editorial illustration

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

Editorial illustration

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

Editorial illustration

🇰🇪Kenya · Nyeri

Kenya Gachuiro AB

Roasted by Heart Coffee RoastersRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsKenyaNyeriWashedHoney flavorArabicaSingle originGachuiroHeart Coffee RoastersIndependent
🇰🇪KenyaWashedField Blend
Brand
Heart Coffee Roasters
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇰🇪Kenya
Region
Nyeri
Town
—
Farm / Station
Gachuiro
Farmer / Producer
Kiama Farmers' Cooperative Society
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Field Blend
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
marionberry, honey, hibiscus
Fermentation
Gachuiro Factory’s documented protocol uses 16–24 hours of dry fermentation. Heart does not publish a crop-specific duration for this AB release.
Drying
Factory-level documentation describes a 24-hour clean-water soak followed by 1–3 weeks on raised beds. Heart does not publish crop-specific timing.
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • townHeart identifies Nyeri and Gachuiro Factory but does not publish a town for this exact release.
  • altitude mHeart publishes a 1,700–1,800 m range; no single elevation is stored as fact.
  • fermentationFactory-level sources describe washed processing, but Heart gives no crop-specific fermentation duration or conditions.
  • drying methodFactory-level raised-bed drying is documented, but Heart gives no crop-specific duration for this release.
  • harvestThe exact Heart page does not publish a harvest date or crop year.
  • gradeAB is a Kenyan screen class; the generic grade field cannot represent it and remains Not specified.
  • roast levelThe exact Heart page does not publish a conventional roast-level label.
  • roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is available.
  • sentiment ratingNo qualifying independent exact-release tasting score was found; retailer catalogs and other crops 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 Gachuiro AB
  2. 02
    The brand
    Heart Coffee Roasters
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Heart Coffee Roasters
  4. 04
    The variety
    Field Blend
  5. 05
    The farm
    Gachuiro
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Kiama Farmers' Cooperative Society
  7. 07
    The region
    Nyeri
  8. 08
    The country
    🇰🇪Kenya
From the producer

Kiama Farmers' Cooperative Society manages Gachuiro and three other factories in Nyeri and represents more than 3,000 smallholder farmers.

From the roaster

Location: Nyeri Elevation: 1700-1800m Varieties: SL28, SL34 Process: Fully washed FOB cost: $5.28lb / $11.64kg Landed cost: $6.65lb / $14.66kg *FOB (Free-On-Board) cost is the price we have paid for the coffee once it is ready to ship. This includes what the farmer was paid, the milling, warehousing

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This release has exact factory and cooperative traceability, SL28 and SL34, a documented altitude range and Heart’s published marionberry, honey and hibiscus notes.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Producer identity

Created Kiama Farmers' Cooperative Society only after exact factory and cooperative identity was established.

02
Lot facts

Connected Nyeri and recorded the exact altitude range, package price and current availability.

03
Sentiment method

Counted one independent exact-release source as qualitative only and excluded ambiguous or wrong-crop ratings.

What was added?

Exact Nyeri and Kiama links, a verified producer record, corrected package price, current availability, factory-level process context and one exact independent qualitative source.

What wasn't added?

No numeric public sentiment score was added because the one verified exact-release independent source did not provide a rating.

Why it matters

The prior page lacked region and producer connections and used an unsupported package weight.

What you might taste

Heart publishes marionberry, honey and hibiscus. One independent 2026 cupper called the exact release bright and fruity.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://heartroasters.com/products/kenya-gachuiro-ab
  • · https://sucafina.com/apac/offerings/gachuiro-nyeri-aa
  • · https://unpacking.coffee/coffees/189-kenya-gachuiro-ab
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 2026-10-25) 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: Gachuiro →Meet the farmer: Kiama Farmers' Cooperative Society →
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