Tandem Coffee Roasters Gathaithi (GREEN)

It’s been a long, long time since we’ve had a Kenya on our menu that truly defied our expectations. Kenya has had some down years for a while now, and, if we’re honest, it hasn’t always made for the best coffees. Conditions in Kenya indicative of an ever-worsening climate paired with perhaps too much reliance on old trees and synthetic fertilizers have left us disappointed in our search for stellar coffees. But this year is different. We worked with Tim Hill at Atlantic Specialty Coffee to bring in this AA lot from Gathaithi, the best washing station Tim visited when he sourced Kenyas earlier this year. We were gobsmacked by how sweet this coffee is, but the crowning achievement of Kenyan coffee in our mind is its acidity. This coffee won’t leave you wanting for that—cranberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants abound in the cup.