Kenya coffee firms voted world’s best

KiN Newsreel

Four Kenyan factories have been named among the world’s best speciality coffee producers at a bi-annual sampling event featuring 49 top-end samples.

Gachatha Coffee Factory in Nyeri clinched the first position among the top 10 coffees dominated by Kenyan produce that also included coffee from Gicherori, Kamwangi and Ngerwe farms.
 

The Rainforest Alliance released the detailed scores at its bi-annual “cupping for quality” event that featured 49 coffee samples from Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya and Rwanda. These were reviewed by a panel of expert cuppers hosted by Balzac Brothers at their SCAA-certified lab in Charleston, South Carolina.

Full report in the Daily Nation