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Archive: Kenya Kiamugumo AB — supplied coffee image 1
Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Archive: Kenya Kiamugumo AB; not a documentary photograph

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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Archive: Kenya Kiamugumo AB; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Archive: Kenya Kiamugumo AB; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇰🇪Kenya · Kirinyaga

Archive: Kenya Kiamugumo AB

Roasted by Verve Coffee RoastersRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsKenyaKirinyagaWashedLight roastLemonBrown SugarArabicaSingle originSpecialtyKiamugumo FactoryNew Ngariama CooperativeVerve Coffee RoastersIndependent
🇰🇪KenyaWashedField BlendLight roast
Brand
Verve Coffee Roasters
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇰🇪Kenya
Region
Kirinyaga
Town
Ngariama
Farm / Station
Kiamugumo Factory
Farmer / Producer
New Ngariama Cooperative
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Specialty
Variety
Field Blend
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Meyer lemon, honeydew, raw sugar
Fermentation
Fermented after cherry sorting; duration not disclosed
Drying
Slow drying on raised beds
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • altitude mVerve publishes only a 1,100–1,800 meter range; no midpoint was invented.
  • harvest dateThe exact archive does not publish harvest dates for this release.
  • fermentation durationVerve confirms fermentation but does not disclose its duration.
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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 Kiamugumo AB
  2. 02
    The brand
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  4. 04
    The variety
    Field Blend
  5. 05
    The farm
    Kiamugumo Factory
  6. 06
    The farmer
    New Ngariama Cooperative
  7. 07
    The region
    Kirinyaga
  8. 08
    The country
    🇰🇪Kenya
From the producer

Smallholders, many tending only a few hundred trees on inherited plots, deliver handpicked ripe cherry to Kiamugumo Factory. The cooperative and factory provide processing, training, quality support, transparency, and local infrastructure investment.

From the roaster

Verve Coffee Roasters highlights this selection as a seasonal, direct-trade offering that showcases the classic, vibrant profile of Kenyan coffee through meticulous processing.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

AB is a Kenyan bean-size grade, not a cultivar. This lot combines three documented cultivars from a cooperative wet mill on Mount Kenya's southern slopes, with careful washed processing focused on crisp acidity and layered sweetness.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Cooperative delivery

Smallholders handpicked ripe cherry and delivered it to Kiamugumo Factory.

02
Washed processing

The factory sorted, fermented, washed, and slowly dried the coffee on raised beds.

03
Light roasting

Verve roasted the AB-grade lot lightly to preserve its citrus, melon, and raw-sugar character.

What was added?

Connected Kirinyaga, Kiamugumo Factory, New Ngariama Farmers' Cooperative Society, washed processing, the three-cultivar composition, elevation range, archive price, bag size, roast, and three brew recipes.

What wasn't added?

No altitude midpoint or individual farmer records were invented. The official page says the factory serves hundreds of growers but does not provide a release-specific contributor count or fermentation duration.

Why it matters

The page now treats AB correctly as a grade and connects the coffee to the verified factory, cooperative, region, process, and cultivar set.

What you might taste

Meyer-lemon brightness and honeydew freshness balanced by clean raw-sugar sweetness.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.vervecoffee.com/products/kiamugumo-ab
  • · https://shop.app/products/7669871280211/archive-kenya-kiamugumo-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.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Kiamugumo Factory →Meet the farmer: New Ngariama Cooperative →
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