The Unique Kenya Coffee Production Process

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The Unique Kenya Coffee Production Process
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The Coffee Bean
Coffee seeds ready for sowing
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Young Coffee Seedlings
Recently germinated coffee seedlings
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Ready for transfer to field
Young coffee plants in a coffee nursery before
transfer to field
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Preparing farm for planting
Preparing a hole where coffee will be planted
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Young Establishments in field
Recently introduced coffee plants 2-3 years
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Mature coffee trees
Mature plants before flowering
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Mature coffee budding and flowering
Mature bushes with good flowering
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The coffee berry development stages
flowering
expanding
Pin head
milky
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Ripe coffee ready for picking
Red berries ready for picking
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Picking Coffee
Ripe berries selectively picked for processing
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Sorting of picked coffee
gt Under ripe berries gt Over ripe berries gt
Foreign bodies
Picked berries selectively sorted to remove
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Soaking beans.
After the skin of the coffee bean is pulped off
(removed), the beans are socked in water
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Fermentation
After pulping the beans are soaked in water to
remove the sugary pulp or mucilage still
adhering to the coffee bean. The processing,
known as wet fermentation takes from 36-72 hours
to accomplish
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Sun drying coffee beans
The wet parchment is sun dried cautiously to
lower the moisture content from 55 to (10.5
-12.5) The process is completed at conditioning
bins which takes about 2 weeks to several weeks.
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Storage of sun dried coffee
The Sun dried coffee is stored in bags ready for
hulling
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Hulling of coffee beans
Commonly referred to as milling ,the dry
parchment is hulled, polished and graded into the
seven standard grades namely-

AA,AB,C,T,TT,PB and E.
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Roasted Beans
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Cupping
Quality analysis of the hulled (milled coffee)
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Auction in progress
Auction in progress. at the Nairobi Coffee
Exchange
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The Coffee Cup
Thank you courtesy of the Coffee Board of Kenya
ASANTE SANA