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🇰🇪Kenya · Nyeri

Archive: Kenya Ichamama Natural

Roasted by Verve Coffee RoastersRoaster's website
EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS
TagsKenyaNyeriNaturalLight roastMangoPineappleArabicaSingle originIchamama FactoryVerve Coffee RoastersIndependent
🇰🇪KenyaNaturalField BlendLight roast
Brand
Verve Coffee Roasters
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇰🇪Kenya
Region
Nyeri
Town
Othaya
Farm / Station
Ichamama Factory
Farmer / Producer
Othaya Farmers Cooperative Society
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Field Blend
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Mango, Pineapple, Black Currant
Fermentation
Whole ripe cherries were wrapped under plastic for about 48 hours, reducing oxygen exposure.
Drying
Sun-dried for up to one month after the reduced-oxygen whole-cherry stage.
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • harvest dateThe exact Verve archive does not publish a harvest date.
  • cultivar proportionsThe technical block verifies SL28, Ruiru 11, and Batian but gives no proportions.
  • SL34 exact-lot membershipSL34 appears in broader member-farm cultivation context but not in the exact technical lot block.
  • reduced-oxygen controlsVerve identifies plastic-sheet wrapping and about 48 hours but does not publish vessel details, temperature, pH, or gas measurements.
  • exact drying durationThe archive says drying lasted up to one month, not the exact number of days for this lot.
  • public sentiment ratingNo qualifying independent exact-release review or numeric score was found; seller-hosted ratings, copied listings, and other Ichamama releases 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
    Archive: Kenya Ichamama Natural
  2. 02
    The brand
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  4. 04
    The variety
    Field Blend
  5. 05
    The farm
    Ichamama Factory
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Othaya Farmers Cooperative Society
  7. 07
    The region
    Nyeri
  8. 08
    The country
    🇰🇪Kenya
From the producer

The exact lot represents 781 farmers around Ichamama Factory. The factory belongs to Othaya Farmers Cooperative Society, a network of 19 washing stations that Verve says receives cherries from about 14,000 smallholders.

From the roaster

Verve archived this as a light-roasted, fruit-driven anaerobic natural with mango, pineapple, and black currant.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Natural processing is less common for Kenyan coffees than the country's classic double-washed style. This lot documents a specific 48-hour reduced-oxygen whole-cherry stage and separates the 781 contributing farmers from Othaya's much larger cooperative membership.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Whole-cherry reduced-oxygen stage

Whole ripe cherries were wrapped under plastic sheets for about 48 hours, reducing oxygen exposure.

02
Extended sun drying

The cherries were then sun-dried for up to one month.

What was added?

No added ingredients are disclosed by Verve.

What wasn't added?

No fruit, flavoring, or external ingredient was disclosed.

Why it matters

The reduced-oxygen whole-cherry stage and long drying period distinguish this lot from traditional Kenyan washed processing.

What you might taste

Verve lists mango, pineapple, and black currant, with a fruit-jam character.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.vervecoffee.com/products/ichamama-natural
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.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Ichamama Factory →Meet the farmer: Othaya Farmers Cooperative Society →
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