Rungeto Jam, Kenya
Fruit jamCaramelBlack tea
Washed Kenya from Karimikui Factory in Kirinyaga, the Rung'eto cooperative. Sweet and jammy with red fruit, caramel and a tea-like finish.
Freshly roasted for your orderShipping from 49 krPickup in Vejle
Washed Kenya from Karimikui Factory
Rungeto Jam comes from Karimikui Coffee Factory in Kirinyaga on the slopes of Mount Kenya. The wet mill was founded in 1966 and is part of the Rung'eto Farmers Cooperative Society, which brings together around 600 smallholders from the villages of Githureia, Gituba and Kia Mugumo. The coffee is grown at 1,600 to 1,800 metres on red volcanic soil.
The farmers grow almost exclusively SL28 and SL34, the two varieties that gave Kenyan coffee its reputation. Nordic Approach has bought from Rung'eto since 2016, and it is one of the factories they return to every year.
Sweet, jammy and tea-like
The cherries are sorted before pulping, fermented overnight and washed and graded in tiled channels before the parchment is dried on raised beds for 8 to 14 days. The cooperative recycles its process water, and all tanks and channels are tiled for cleaner fermentation.
That gives a cup with more sweetness than acidity. Red fruit and jam up front, caramel in the middle and a tea-like finish that lingers. We roast it light for filter, where the sweetness stands out most clearly, and it also works as a heavy, fruity espresso.
