The Church of Scotland and their KenyaKenya is the East African powerhouse of the coffee world. Both in the cup, and the way they run their trade, everything is topnotch.: Kenya is the East... ...more branch, the Scottish Mission, introduced coffee from Reunion Island via YemenYemen has a coffee culture like no other place, and perhaps some of what we enjoy in this cup is due to their old style of trade...: Technically,... ...more to their site in Kibwezi Kenya in 1893, and later at Kikuyu. These were identified as the St. Austin and St. Augustine types at the time. The seed, obtained from the agents of the British East IndiaS-795 is a variety based on the " S-Line" coffees of India, and stands for Selection 795, It has a very fine cup, one of the best in... ...more Company, Smith Mackenzie & Co., at Aden, was sown at Kibwezi, near Mombasa, and in 1896 the first crop was reaped.
Scott Agricultural Laboratories was named in honor of Dr Henry Scott of the Church of Scotland mission at Kikuyu. So the famed varieties SL-28Scott Laboratories of Kabete Kenya developed the selection SL-28 Kenya cultivar, a preferred type with Bourbon, in 1935. It supposedly is selected from Tanganyika Drought Resistant cultivar, found... ...more and SL-34Scott Labs selection 34 Kenya cultivar, a preferred type with French Mission Bourbon heritage. It supposedly is selected from French Mission Bourbon trees at Loresho Estate in Kabete... ...more bear tribute to Scott in some way.
The year 1896 saw coffee first introduced into the Kiambu-Kikuyu district from the Scottish Mission, a fertile area, which by 1912 boasted plantations several hundred acres in size, growing predominately the BourbonA coffee cultivar; a cross between Typica and Bourbon, originally grown in Brazil: Mundo Novo is a commercial coffee cultivar; a natural hybrid between "Sumatra" and Red Bourbon,... ...more and Kent varieties. It is possible what was referred to was from this line of Bourbon and KentsA selection of Typica, originally resistant to Coffee Leaf Rust (CLR). Kents was the first useful CLR-resistant cultivar. It was developed on the Kent estate in Mysore, India.... ...more.
The French Mission coffee introduced from TanzaniaIn terms of the Tanzania coffee character, it belongs to the Central/East African family of washed (wet-processed) coffees, bright (acidy), and mostly aggressively flavorful of which Kenya is... ...more to Kenya a few years later (1897) was more popular and had better characteristics it was said.
