Kapsokisio

Kapsokisio

This Kenyan coffee from the Kapsokisio wet mill has intense flavours of rose hips, hibiscus and fresh red berries.

250g whole coffee beans


About this coffee

Cultivar: K7, SL28, SL34

Flavour notes: Rose hips, hibiscus & red berries

Producer: Several smallholders farmers
Country: Kenya
Region: Mount Elgon
Process: Washed
Harvest date: December 2025

More about the cultivar

This coffee is produced by several hundred farmers, most of them mainly growing the K7 cultivar with some farmers also producing the SL28 and SL34 cultivars.

K7 was released in Kenya in 1936 after selections from the original population by Scott Agricultural Laboratories. It is still planted and produced in Kenya and most farmers who deliver cherries to the Kapsokisio wet mill are still producing K7. Recent genetic tests have confirmed that K7 is related to the Bourbon genetic group.

How the coffee was produced

Picking and sorting

  • The coffee cherries are typically hand picked by the farmers and their family members. After delivering the coffee cherries to the wet mill the good coffee cherries are separated from the inferior ones by hand sorting and they are delivered in separate cherry hoppers.


Depupling, fermenting & washing

  • The cherries are depulped and graded by using an old Aagard disc de-pulper that uses water and gravity to sort dense beans from less dense beans. Coffee of different grades are moved to separate fermentation tanks where the parchment coffee, with it’s mucilage still on, is dry fermented for about 12-16 hours over night. After fermentation the coffee is washed in clean water and graded once again by gravity. The more dense beans are dried separately from the beans with lower density and inferior quality.

Drying

  • The coffees are dried on elevated drying tables, where defect parchment coffee gets sorted out by hand. Drying the coffee takes about 10 – 14 days. During daytime the coffees are raked to ensure even drying. The drying tables are covered during the hottest times of the day to avoid over heating and also at night time to prevent condensation. The drying process is finished when the moisture content in the coffee beans is between 10-12%. After drying, the coffees are stored in conditioning bins before delivery to the dry mill. The coffees we buy from Kenya are always vacuum packed before it is shipped to Norway.

Shipping

For our Norwegian customers, we offer two shipping options:

  1. Pakke i Postkassen - With Pakke i Postkassen, tracking is provided, and delivery is estimated within 2-3 business days.
  2. Pakke til hentested - The parcel can be collected from a Post in Store, Post Office, parcel locker, or parcel box. This option includes tracking, with delivery expected within 1-5 business days.

For all international orders, we ship via DHL - Worldwide Express. This shipping method includes tracking, and all customs duties and taxes are covered in the shipping price, ensuring there are no unexpected charges for your order or its importation into the final destination. The estimated delivery time with DHL is 1-5 business days. For more information about shipping, please visit our FAQ page here. If you have further questions, please contact us here.

How to brew

Filter

We strongly recommend using the correct measurements and brewing techniques when you brew our coffees. Use a digital scale both to measure water and coffee in order to get consistent results, and we recommend using between 60 to 70 grams of coffee per litre (1000g) of water, depending on the brewing method, water quality and coffee used.

Tim's notes

About 90% of the farmers who deliver cherries to the Kapsokisio wet mill grow the K7 cultivar, which means only about 10% of the coffee is SL28 and SL34 cultivars . This is probably one of the main reasons why the Kapsokisio coffees taste so different from the coffees from central-Kenya.

When we started buying coffee from Kapsokisio in 2012, the cooperative was struggling with drying capacity during the peak of the harvest, which is when the best coffees are processed. Therefore in 2013 we decided to invest in building new drying tables at the wet mill in order to increase the drying capacity at the factory. We managed to raise about $10 000 USD from our customers during our 6th and 7th anniversary that was donated to Kapsokisio in order to have new drying beds built.

Ever since we have always been trying to get our hands on some coffee from this wet mill as it is such a unique coffee with crisp fruity flavours.

Kapsokisio

Kapsokisio is a wet mill that is part of the Kapsokisio Farmers Co-operative Society. It is located in Mount Elgon in the western part of Kenya, close to the Ugandan border. The farmers here have traditionally grown mainly the K7 cultivar as the farms are located in quite high altitudes.