Kenya AA Auction Lot 293 -Gicherori

Sweet Maria's Coffee

Here is yet another fantastic Kenya Auction lot. I know, read a few Kenya reviews here and you would think I praise everything and anything. But you are seeing just the tip of the proverbial iceberg here. These few coffees represent several hundered that did not deserve praise, recognition, or my bid in the Auction. And of all origins, the cup deserves, inspires... no... it demands this sort of praise. A great Kenya is unequaled, and in green form it is simply a great raw material waiting to be "sculpted" into a great cup by you or I, people who roast coffee. Okay, so I get carried away, but here I sit drinking my 3 roasts (City+, FC, FC+) of Gicherori and it's got my blood running a bit hot. This lot is a mutable coffee, with the light roasts being a bit thin, but having that pin-prick acidity, that dynamic brightness, that no other origin can match. The City roast of Gicherori (pronounced geek-ee-ror -ee) is very bright, very citric, and very floral. It's almost too much, too much alto and not enough in the mid-tones. But it will definitely grab your attention! The really light roasts are a bit thin too, and the finish a little more "lemon peel" than that pin-prick acidity of a fully ripe, lemony brightness. Take the roast a bit further to City+ (to the end of1st, a bit into the pause between 1st and 2nd crack), and you get a riper citrus flower brightness. For me, #293 gets really good a bit darker, before 2nd crack, at Full City. Push it right up to the verge, and you get a real range of notes from bass to treble. The aromas at wet fragrance in brewing are sweetly pungent. The cup has an intial sweetness that pleasantly bitters on the palate, with a dash of pepper and smoke in the aftertaste. The citus notes have turned to ripe, red grapefruit, the roast tastes are browned sugar, and the fruit has plum/prune aromatic but the cup flavors are not so dark. This coffee might be too lively for some, for others it will provide the zingy-zesty cup that hits you right. If you tire of Indonesian coffees that pass up the front of your palate and just squat down in the rear of your mouth, then Gicherori 293 is the one that is going to hit all the buttons on your tounge as it goes by...and THEN hang out in the back of your mouth for an hour or two.

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