Kayon Mountain Shakiso
Kayon Mountain Shakiso
Kayon Mountain Shakiso
Kayon Mountain Shakiso

Kayon Mountain Shakiso

$17.00

The Kayon Mountain Coffee Farm is 500 hectares with about 300 hectares planted in coffee and has been owned and operated by Ismael Hassen Aredo and his family since 2012. It is located 510 kilometers south of Addis Ababa, and the property crosses the border of two villages—Taro and Sewana—located in the Oromia region, in the Guji zone of the Shakiso district of Ethiopia.

Ismael oversees a staff of 25 permanent full-time and 300 seasonal employees, and the farm management offers free transportation services as well as financial support for building schools and administration buildings for the community. The farm competes with a nearby mining village for seasonal workers, so Ismael and his family tend to pay higher wages to their pickers in order to incentivize them returning year after year.

Kayon Mountain farm has a nursery on-site and utilizes shade (acacia and other indigenous trees) to protect the coffee as well as for creating compost to fertilize naturally. Ismael is meticulous about not only the structure and management of the farm itself but also the harvesting and processing. Both Natural and Washed lots are produced on the property.

Natural coffees are picked, rinsed and sorted, and moved to the drying beds. In both cases, the drying can take between 12–20 days, also depending on the weather.

Customer Reviews

Based on 2 reviews
100%
(2)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
D
Devin Nicely
Not Your Typical Light Roast

I got this as a part of my endeavor to try all blends and single origins roasted by The Muse, and I wasn’t very excited about it seeing that it was light roasted; HOWEVER, as a guy who typically dislikes light roasted coffee because of the raw (green, or unroasted) taste that squeaks through the roasting process, there was little to no trace of that underneath the prominent blueberry notes that gave way to the toffee and chocolate notes described on the label! Despite it’s status as a light roast, this has become my new favorite single origin coffee from The Muse; will 10/10 be purchasing more of it!!

A
ANTHONY LASKA
Great Taste

Got the coffee as a gift. It has great taste. We liked it so much we ordered more. Highly recommended.