Review: Kenya Peaberry Kirinyaga Kii From Johnson Brothers Coffee
When tasting a coffee it’s hard not to judge based on first impressions. You’d think that from the first impression the coffee would tell you all that it will hold, but that isn’t true. Coffee, on rare occasions doesn’t always taste best on that first taste even if the coffee has already had a few days to rest. Coffee starts to stale with age, but every once in a rare while you may come across a coffee that actually tastes better as it ages into the 5, 7, and even 10 day old range.Upon receiving and tasting Kenya Peaberry Kirinyaga Kii from Johnson Brothers Coffee I found myself judging the coffee too quickly. Within two days of having it, and 4 days from roast date, I found that this coffee was starting to get better with age.
Kenya Peaberry Kirinyaga Kii is said to have
An essay in refined acidity: balanced, tartly sweet, nuanced by ripe tomato and apricot. Further complications of nut and perhaps milk chocolate. Particularly impressive finish: sweet, long, saturated with apricot-toned fruit.
From my first impressions, the aroma carried a wine-like dryness with a light tartness and maybe hints of chocolate. Within a few days the aroma started to become fruitier, a little more tart, and carried hints of chocolate underneath.
Each sip carried a balanced mixture of sweetness and a tartness that bursted out from the cup and onto my tongue. Afterward, I found a fruitiness like dried dates along with a lingering chocolate note that lingered into the finish. As the coffee aged I noticed the tart fruitiness I found in my first cup to become stronger and more pronounced. This coffee was starting to taste more like a Kenyan coffee with the cheek puckering tartness and intense fruity notes, along with a lingering gushy sweetness.
The coffee is now 7 days old which for some coffees is very bad and I would hope you would have finished a coffee before it gets to be a week old, but this Kenya is a great example of a rare coffee that gets better with age. Unfortunately, this coffee will start to go bad any day now.
Don’t do what I did and judge a coffee before you’ve finished the whole bag. Finish the bag first before you start writing out your thoughts.
I’d give this a 4.5 out of 5 cups.
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