Coffee Dhur ACAL

The Rianjagi Washing Station is located in the coffee growing region of Embu in the Manyatta Sub County coffee growing district.
It was built in 1976, and both the washing station and the Cooperative are owned by local coffee farmers who deliver their cherries to be processed at the facility. The Producers of this Cooperative receive support in inputs, agricultural training and aid for the commercialization of their coffees.
The farms of these coffee farmers are located between 1,650 and 1,800 m.a.s.l. and grow mostly Ruiru 11, SL 28 SL 34 and Batian varietal coffees, all farms are approximately one hectare in size.
The coffee farmers manually select the red cherries and deliver them to the washing station, once there the cherries from this lot are pulped and fermented for 12 to 16 hours, after fermentation the parchment is washed with clean water and placed on African beds to dry. The parchment is moved so that it dries evenly.
When the coffee is dry, it is then milled at the Othaya Farmers Cooperative Society’s dry mill.
The Rianjagi washing station is run by Newton Njagi, who is responsible for ensuring that everything in the facility runs smoothly. Together with him and his team, we develop batches of Traditional washed process coffees.
The batches from this washing station are named after the Duhr star of our Constellations range.