{"product_id":"kahirani-revival-x-variable-microlot-6-oz","title":"Kahiraini Revival \/\/ 7 Day Natural Anaerobic X-Variable Microlot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eX-VARIABLE MICROLOT #03\u003c\/strong\u003e  |  Lot KR005  |  6 oz \/ 170 g\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLast year this was a top 5 cup of the year. This year we doubled it, and it got better.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevival is the root of this drop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE PEOPLE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKahiraini sits in Mathira, in Nyeri, on the western side of Mt. Kenya. In the nineties it was part of one of the largest cooperatives in the country. Six hundred farmers. Half a million kilos a year. Coffee the region is still known for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the price collapsed. Farmers walked away from their own trees because the work stopped paying. The factory stayed open as a collection point, taking in whatever few kilos still came, and shipping them somewhere else to be processed. The buildings sat. Some were stripped for parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2021, \u003cstrong\u003eJack Ndirangu\u003c\/strong\u003e, chairman of the factory, and \u003cstrong\u003eMrs Wahito\u003c\/strong\u003e, the cooperative's secretary-manager, decided to bring it back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the part we cannot stop thinking about. \u003cstrong\u003eThey turned to natural process because the water pumps and the pulping equipment still did not work.\u003c\/strong\u003e Natural needs no water. What looked like a limitation became the method, and the method is why this cup tastes the way it does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack puts it plainly: \u003cem\u003e\"It is by His Grace that we achieved what we have now.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMembership is back to 150 and climbing. Over 70,000 kilos of cherry. In 2023 they brought in AGnimble to digitize the operation and reach buyers directly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSEVEN DAYS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis lot fermented \u003cstrong\u003eseven days\u003c\/strong\u003e, sealed off from oxygen. Seven days is a long time to trust a process you rebuilt from nothing. Too short and you get nothing. Too long and you lose the whole lot. Somebody stood there and made that call, on purpose, every day for a week.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is the variable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHY WE CAME BACK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLast year we took a chance on one lot and it landed in our top five cups of the year. This year we doubled the buy, and the quality jumped so far it is hard to believe it is the same factory. That is what happens when a producer gets a buyer who comes back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAGnimble are Rep Chain partners, and they are helping us build out digital traceability, so the record of whose hands this passed through lives somewhere other than our word for it. \u003cstrong\u003eIn 2027 we are getting on a plane to Kenya to see it ourselves.\u003c\/strong\u003e Next Rep Chain visit, same relationship, one more year deep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eX is the variable.\u003c\/strong\u003e Every small decision changes what ends up in the cup. The altitude. The picker's hands. The hour the cherry came off the tree. Seven days of fermentation. A broken water pump and two people who refused to let a place die. We name the series after the unknown because the unknown is where the ingenuity lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mathira, Nyeri, Kenya, 1800 MASL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProducer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kahiraini Coffee Factory, Kahiraini Farmers Co-op\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChairman:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jack Ndirangu  |  \u003cstrong\u003eSecretary-manager:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mrs Wahito\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProcess:\u003c\/strong\u003e Natural anaerobic, 7 day fermentation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVarietals:\u003c\/strong\u003e SL28, SL34, Ruiru 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSourced through:\u003c\/strong\u003e Nsidibe Etim, AGnimble\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe taste:\u003c\/strong\u003e Honeydew melon. Persimmon. Kiwi. Muscadines. Freeze-dried strawberries. M\u0026amp;M confectioner candies. Peanut butter cookies. Dates. Cacao nibs. Bright, juicy, bouncy, deep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe grew up being told Arabica was from Arabia. This bean's true name is Ethiopica, and this lot brings that ancestral heat back home to the cup.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrew it right.\u003c\/strong\u003e 188F. 1:15. Three to four minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited.\u003c\/strong\u003e Subscribers get the first 100 bags. Whatever is left comes to the shop and the site. Kahiraini does not come back every season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoasted at Cxffeeblack, 3386 Bowen Avenue, Memphis TN 38122.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGod don't make no junk, and the coffee don't need no cream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cxffeeblack","offers":[{"title":"6 oz \/ Whole Bean","offer_id":51917419053289,"sku":"CB-XV-KAH-6OZ-W","price":39.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6 oz \/ Ground","offer_id":51917419086057,"sku":"CB-XV-KAH-6OZ-G","price":39.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Brick \/ Whole Bean","offer_id":51917419282665,"sku":"CB-XV-KAH-BRICK-W","price":95.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Brick \/ Ground","offer_id":51917419315433,"sku":"CB-XV-KAH-BRICK-G","price":95.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Big Bag \/ Whole Bean","offer_id":51917419348201,"sku":"CB-XV-KAH-BIG-W","price":158.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Big Bag \/ Ground","offer_id":51917419380969,"sku":"CB-XV-KAH-BIG-G","price":158.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/cxffeeblack.com\/en-ca\/products\/kahirani-revival-x-variable-microlot-6-oz","provider":"Cxffeeblack","version":"1.0","type":"link"}