SL28, SL34 coffee
SL28 and SL34 are the pair that defines Kenyan coffee, and Kenyan lots are usually planted, picked and milled together rather than separated.
Both were selected at Scott Agricultural Laboratories in the 1930s. SL28 brings the blackcurrant acidity and the structure; SL34 tolerates heavier rain and lower altitude and contributes body and a rounder sweetness. Almost every washing station in the central highlands processes them side by side, which is why bags so often name them together.
Read a bag marked SL28, SL34 as the classic Kenyan profile: blackcurrant and grapefruit up front, tomato and brown sugar underneath, and an acidity with more architecture than almost anything else in coffee.
- Coffees in the catalogue
- 3
- Grown in
- Kenya
- Common notes
- craisin, green apple, sweet lime, cardamom and red currant
- Price range
- $24.00 – $27.00
3 SL28, SL34 coffees in the catalogue
- Nairobi AA, Kenya — Blueprint Coffee. craisin, green apple, sweet lime and cardamom. $24.00 / 284 g.
- Kenya Mugaya — Metric Coffee Co. red currant, vanilla bean and black tea. $25.00 / 284 g.
- Kamwangi — Sey Coffee. blackcurrant, rhubarb and grapefruit. $27.00 / 250 g.