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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 Karatu; AB Separation - Kenya; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 Karatu; AB Separation - Kenya; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 Karatu; AB Separation - Kenya; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 Karatu; AB Separation - Kenya; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇰🇪Kenya · Kiambu

2026 Karatu; AB Separation - Kenya

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsKenyaKiambuWashedArabicaSingle originABGitwe Farmer Co-operative SocietySey CoffeeIndependent
🇰🇪KenyaWashedField Blend
Brand
SEY Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇰🇪Kenya
Region
Kiambu
Town
Karatu
Farm / Station
—
Farmer / Producer
Gitwe Farmer Co-operative Society
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
AB
Variety
Field Blend
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Rhubarb, Hibiscus, Red currant
Fermentation
Fermented for approximately 24 hours, then soaked overnight in fresh water after channel sorting.
Drying
Dried on raised beds for 15 days while continually turned and hand-sorted.
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • farm idSEY identifies Karatu as a washing station; no single farm is established for this cooperative AB separation.
  • roast levelSEY does not publish a conventional roast-level label for this exact release.
  • retail package and priceThe exact page publishes green-coffee supply-chain costs, not a retail package weight or consumer price.
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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
    2026 Karatu; AB Separation - Kenya
  2. 02
    The brand
    SEY Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Sey Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Field Blend
  5. 05
    The farm
    Not disclosed
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Gitwe Farmer Co-operative Society
  7. 07
    The region
    Kiambu
  8. 08
    The country
    🇰🇪Kenya
From the producer

Karatu Coffee Factory is affiliated with Gitwe Farmer Co-operative Society and serves smallholders from Karatu, Gitwe, Kibiru, and Kigaa villages.

From the roaster

SEY identifies this as its first lot from the Karatu washing station and reports rhubarb, hibiscus, and red currant.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

An exact AB field-blend release with a fully documented washed protocol and a corrected Gitwe cooperative relationship; the prior Gatuyaini association belonged to a different Kenyan cooperative system.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Verified the exact release

Confirmed Kiambu, 1,500 meters, November 2025 harvest, Field Blend identity, and sold-out status from SEY.

02
Documented the process

Captured the approximately 24-hour fermentation, overnight soak, channel sorting, and 15-day raised-bed drying.

03
Corrected the relationship type

Kept Karatu Factory as the named washing station but removed the farm-entity link.

What was added?

No added flavoring is disclosed.

What wasn't added?

No individual smallholder, conventional roast label, retail package, retail price, independent score, or site-owned tasting score was inferred.

Why it matters

The profile now distinguishes a washing station from a farm while preserving the exact cooperative, origin, variety, process, and cup evidence.

What you might taste

SEY lists rhubarb, hibiscus, and red currant.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2026-karatu-ab-separation-kenya
  • · https://www.covoyacoffee.com/p610549-1-kenya-peaberry-karatu.html
  • · https://www.kiambucoffeeunion.co.ke/
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

SEY's exact page and independent catalog references were checked. Beanbook supplies exact-release metadata but no scored review; general Karatu coffees, other roasters' lots, seller descriptions and cooperative-wide reputation were excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farmer: Gitwe Farmer Co-operative Society →
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