Papua New Guinea – Kimel Estate Peaberry

(1 customer review)

Full bodied, medium to low acidity and a clean cup. Lighter side of medium roasting to as dark as you want to go. Perfect example of what a premium PNG should taste like.  Smooth chocolate, bigger body and lower acidity. Hard not to enjoy this cup. Lighter roasts are a little crisper and sweeter, hints of a lemony acidity. Not quite as hefty as the darker roasts but slightly more exotic, a little soft fruit tone with lingering floral notes. Medium and beyond roasts bring out a bigger body and stronger chocolaty tones, turns a bit more semi-sweet as one gets real close to 2nd crack. Adds some complimenting roasty/smoky notes as you get towards second crack or beyond. A great thicker and darker toned cup like a Sumatra but without all the earthiness!

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Description

Before we found some personal friends in Papua New Guinea, this is the coffee we used to rely on. Awesome folks even though at the time we had never met them. One of the few Estate produced coffees (a bit smaller than Carpenter) and located just a couple miles down the road.

A couple years back times were rough with Kimel, PNG is a tribal land and not all the tribes get along all the time. To have an estate in PNG means you have to have an open environment between the tribes living/working on or near the estate. Unfortunately Kimel had a rough couple of years due to some tribal conflicts and coffee production and quality wavered pretty good. This is when we started working direct with Carpenter Estates and found some absolute gems. When I got this years Kimel PB sample though some friends, we couldn’t help but to pick it up. Great screen, clean cup profile. A bit milder and sweeter than Sigri.

To learn more about PNG’s unusual coffee industry, check out our recent blog article “The Wild West of Coffee Production.”

Tasting Notes: 
Full bodied, medium to low acidity and a clean cup. Lighter side of medium roasting to as dark as you want to go. Perfect example of what a premium PNG should taste like.  Smooth chocolate, bigger body and lower acidity. Hard not to enjoy this cup. Lighter roasts are a little crisper and sweeter, hints of a lemony acidity. Not quite as hefty as the darker roasts but slightly more exotic, a little soft fruit tone with lingering floral notes. Medium and beyond roasts bring out a bigger body and stronger chocolaty tones, turns a bit more semi-sweet as one gets real close to 2nd crack. Adds some complimenting roasty/smoky notes as you get towards second crack or beyond. A great thicker and darker toned cup like a Sumatra but without all the earthiness!

Roasting Notes:
Although traditionally PNG coffees are taken a little darker. We thought a nice medium roast fit this coffee nicely. Smooth, sweet and more down the milk chocolate alley with a bit of setup. A little hint of acidity lighter but with a 3-5 day setup, it will be gone. Darker roasts work great with this bean but turn it stronger, loses its delicate tones and shows more Indo style tones into 2nd crack.

Kimel plantation was first established in 1974 by an Australian, Bobby Gibbs. It is now owned by traditional landowners, the Opais being the main tribe. Although locally owned, the plantation is managed by expatriate personnel, appointed by the local directors with extensive experience in plantation management. The plantation has a permanent workforce of 432 and they are housed on the estate in bush housing. The estate also provides schooling for the children and medical facilities for the workforce and their dependents. Clean running water has been made available to the estate workers by way of a community project financed by one of their overseas clients, and its implementation is overseen by the estate’s management. Since the estate is located along the Kimel River, from which it derived its name, it has access to good, clean water for the processing of its crop, which is a prerequisite along with sound husbandry and dedicated management to continually create quality coffees. The estate’s management also implements some ecology-friendly policies with regard to environmental issues, such as the recycling of pulp which is returned to the fields as organic fertilizer, and the recycling of water used during the wet processing. The cultivation is conducted under shade trees, like albizias and gravilleas.

Additional information

Weight 1.01 lbs
Arrival Date:

03/29/22

Lot #:

0004

Origin:

Wahgi Valley, Eastern Highlands Province

Processing Method:

Washed

1 review for Papua New Guinea – Kimel Estate Peaberry

  1. sandranbob (verified owner)

    I’m usually aiming for coffee roasted around the beginning of the 2nd crack and have really liked all I’ve tried from PNG. Since this one was described as being good from light to dark, I decided to try it on the light side of medium. It was terrific and offering quite a different flavor from the darker roasts. Now I’ll struggle to determine which way to roast the rest… probably a little of each.

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