Ichamama Peaberry - Filter Coffee from Kenya

Unfortunately, this coffee is sold out, but it is planned to return to us with the next harvest.

The classic doubled: Peaberries are round beans that did not separate during growth. This gives the roasted coffee more density, which we can feel in the texture: the coffee is truly round and soft, has the obligatory, juicy Ichamama acidity, and shows notes of blackberry jam. Actually, the coffee is just like the Ichamama, but with more of everything.

Roasted for filter, cold brew

Ichamama - Green Coffee Info

Origin: Nyeri, Kenya

Producers: Ichamama Cooperative

Varieties: SL28, SL34

Post-harvest process: pulped, fermented, washed

Arrived at the roastery: October 2022

Brewing Recommendation Ichamama PB: Hario V60

Tell me more about Ichamama

The coffee makers love story! In 2013, we visited the Ichamama Cooperative for the first time. The encounter with the people left a good impression on us, as did the animals - we were able to eat a freshly slaughtered goat, among other things. In 2014, our Benjamin became Swiss champion at the Brewers Cup with the Ichamama. Felix participated in the Swiss championship in October 2022 with the fresh harvest and received top scores for the coffee. Since 2013, we have been in contact with the producers and buy their coffee year after year. In the meantime, we have co-financed drying beds to ease the bottleneck of drying.

Why does the coffee taste the way it does?

One of the exciting side effects of a long-term partnership is that we can pick this coffee's flavor profile out of many others. Nevertheless, it is always surprising how different flavor notes show more or less in a given year. In 2014, the coffee tasted like rhubarb compote, in 2017 it was liquid Grether's pastille, in 2021 blackberries dominated the aroma, this year it's more reddish, acidic berries again.

Our Tasting Results

Why did we buy this coffee?

Because we taste several Ichamama lots every year. For 10 years, we have been blindly choosing the AA, the largest beans. Last year at the cupping, however, there was a cup that was different - denser, fuller, like jam. It was the peaberry. So we bought two bags of 60kg each of that coffee to show what a different bean shape can do for the flavor.

How do we roast this coffee?

We roast the coffee as a 12.5kg batch in our 30kg Giesen roaster. Short and snappy, we roast this coffee for 7:50 minutes with a development time of 3.4%, or just over 1 minute. We start the roast at 60% energy, throttle down to 50% at 2 minutes and leave the gas on - until the end. The coffee "sucks up" a lot of heat, so we don't pull back on energy. There is no other coffee in our range that we roast this way.

Shipping also available as coffee letter

All our coffees can be ordered in the form of a coffee letter. This reduces the postage for 250g coffee from CHF 7 to CHF 2. It is treated like a regular letter and lands in your mailbox.

At checkout, you can choose between coffee letter, A-Post, and B-Post options.