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>>sebg+(OP)
This was tough to read.

I was never a coffee drinker at all until I spent a month in Kenya 6 years ago helping a startup get off the ground (ex CTO/CEO lived in Nairobi at the time). I tried the local coffee as was customary (when in Rome...) and because the Kenyans were SO passionate about their local coffee.

I was floored. I got completely hooked, and to this day have not found quality Kenyan coffee here in the USA. The coffee in Kenya is incredible, puts the crap Americans pay $$$ for at Starbucks to absolute shame.

>>NickC2+YR
Give Dorothea Coffee a call [1]. Selfishly, I'm be curious to see how their Kenyan stacks up against what you've had: I recently had a batch of their Kenya Nyeri that was excellent to my taste … but I don't drink Kenyan that often, so had little to compare it against.

[1] https://dorotheacoffee.com/products/kenya-ndaroini-aa

>>gffrd+As1
I got this coffee in, and it's pretty "roasty" for sure - it is a lighter roast but has a ton of roast flavors in the coffee. It isn't bad but there are a lot of coffees you can buy that don't have those flavors: https://minmaxcoffee.com/roasted-coffee/

>>roflye+sco
Color me surprised you actually tried it! Thank you for reporting back, and giving them a shot.

Sorry to hear it didn't work out. They do so well with Ethiopian, Colombian, Rwandan (which is where my palette is dialed—berry, tea, honey, citrus), I assumed their treatment of the Kenyan beans was representative.

Do you have a source of Kenyan beans that tells the story of what Kenyan is like at its best? I'd love to try!