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  • Rocket Summer, Kenya - espresso & filtre
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Dark Arts Coffee 🇬🇧

Rocket Summer

Rocket Summer

250g

€15,40
€15,40
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  • Notes: 🫐 Blackcurrant, 🍮 Demerara sugar, 🍵 Black tea
  • Brew method: Espresso, filter
  • Process: Washed
  • Variety: Batian, Ruiru 11, SL28, SL34
  • Origin: Kenya 🇰🇪.
    • Region: Tinganga, Kiambu County
  • Producer: Sasini Estate, Tinganga farm
    • Altitude: 1,830m

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This AB lot is grown at 1,830m on Tinganga farm, in Kiambu County, from the Batian, Ruiru 11, SL28 and SL34 varieties. The cherries are washed, fermented for 12 to 16 hours, then dried on raised beds for two to three weeks.

Singular's post-it: a Kenya led by blackcurrant, juicy and lively, resting on the brown sugar of demerara, with a black tea finish that lingers.

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Sasini Estate, Tinganga farm

Tinganga, Kiambu County, Kenya 🇰🇪

Rocket Summer is an AB lot from Tinganga farm, 260 hectares in Kiambu County, north of Nairobi. The farm belongs to Sasini, which has grown coffee in the Kenyan highlands since 1952 and employs some 300 people on deep red volcanic soil, at 1,830m. The Batian, Ruiru 11, SL28 and SL34 varieties are grown there.

Hand-picked between October and December, the cherries are fully washed, fermented for 12 to 16 hours, then sun-dried on raised beds for two to three weeks, before being cupped on site. The farm recycles its pulping water, plants shade trees and turns coffee pulp into organic fertiliser.

Dark Arts Coffee

United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Dark Arts Coffee began with a bluff. In 2014, Brad Morrison, a New Zealand barista living in Hackney, had had enough of the coffee he was serving and told his boss he could do better. The boss agreed to change supplier if Brad set up his own roastery. The money came from Colin Mitchell, met the year before at a motorcycle festival. Brad sums up the deal in his own way: "a barista with no roasting experience convinced someone with even less to give him money." The pair set up under a railway arch in Homerton, an area then so unfashionable that Brad's mother, looking for the address, first came across a mugging in front of the arch.

Rather than imitating sleek Scandinavian-style roasteries, Dark Arts embraces what its founders really love: the occult, choppers, heavy metal and 1970s horror films. The coffees are called Cult of Doom, Holy Mountain or, for the decaf, Life After Death. Beneath the skulls, Jamie Strachan, head of coffee and self-confessed metal fan, selects emerging origins, Indonesia, East Timor, Guerrero in Mexico, and roasts light. During the lockdowns, online sales jumped by more than 1,000%, and Sprudge ended up listing the house among its notable roasters.