Black · Kericho Highlands, Kenya
Kericho Black Tea
Moderate caffeine
A bright Kenyan black tea with a clean, brisk cup and a confident malty structure.
Recipe
- Temperature
- 96 °C · 205 °F
- Leaf
- 3.2 g
- Water
- 250 ml
- First steep
- 3:00
- Each next steep
- +0:25
- Steeps
- 3
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Brew guide
Use near-boiling water and a measured infusion; it stands up beautifully on its own or with milk.
Aroma notes
warm grain · dried citrus · cocoa husk
Tasting notes
brisk body · bright copper cup · malt and citrus finish
Harvest
All year
Making
Planting 
Plucking 
Withering 
Rolling 
Oxidation 
Firing
Origin
Kericho Highlands · Kenya
On the equator Kericho has no seasons: sun in the morning, rain in the afternoon. The pluck runs all year, brisk and clean in the cup.
Lore
Tea reached Kenya in 1903 and found ideal ground in Kericho's highland rains. Kenya is now the world's largest black-tea exporter, its finest gardens sitting at two thousand meters on the equator.
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