Next Level Coffee

We don’t say Next Level lightly; this brew has the highest speciality score in the history of Two Chimps, so it only seems right that we give it a name fitting its awesomeness!

While this coffee tastes awesome in every device, our favourites are a filter, Chemex or cafetiere.

If you want to know more, see our brew guides for making coffee.

This coffee was grown with support from Lot 20, a collection of coffee producers around the Kericho and Bomet counties in the Southern Part of Rift Valley in Kenya. Formed in 2019, they aim to create fair treatment for farmers and improve cultivation without a middleman.

With four permanent staff, they work tirelessly to support local farming communities across the region. This includes donating 50,000 plants, training farmers in good practices, creating water resources and educating financial literacy.

These beans were grown on Priory Farm, a small family-run estate. The Muge family is dedicated to growing numerous varieties of coffee, such as Ruiru 11 and Batian, which cover 40 acres. Incredible growing conditions paired with considered agricultural practices have helped develop these amazing flavour profiles in the cup.

There is a dry mill on the estate, meaning they can complete most of the process on-site. This makes it one of the more unique operations in the country, and Lot 20 can use this aspect to maintain its fundamental value of keeping the supply chain as short as possible.

Cupping is the process used to allocate any coffee its ‘quality’ score. Here at Two Chimps, we only source and roast speciality coffee. Speciality coffee must have a score of 80 points or higher. If it doesn’t get the score, it doesn’t make the grade. See here if you want to know more about coffee cupping, or want to try it at home yourself.

When it comes to Roasting, we never ‘over roast’ any of our coffees, because we never need to. We use the roasting process to highlight some of the amazing flavours and aromas that can be found within the coffee naturally. Roasting coffee too dark hides these wonderful flavours and creates a coffee which is bitter and burnt. Because the coffee we source is of a very high quality, we can roast to highlight flavours, rather than to hide them. Our coffee is never bitter or burnt. Instead, our coffees are naturally sweet (not like two sugars sweet, just naturally sweet) and bursting with character.

Each coffee we source is amazingly individual. Some are more acidic, some chocolatey, some are even fruity. The farmers and workers across the globe work hard to produce a superb product, always trying different techniques to produce the holy grail of coffees. We feel we owe it to them, and to you, to get the most flavour and aroma from every single bean.

Roast Style: Medium

Location: Nandi County, Priory Farm

Varietal(s): Batian, Ruiri 11, SL28, SL34

Processing: Washed

Altitude: 1800 metres above sea level

Country: Kenya

Certification: Speciality

Produced by: Lot 20

Score: 87.75

What does this all mean? Check out our Jargon Buster.

This time, we decided to keep things straightforward and focus on the quality of the coffee rather than a funky name. So, we’ve named it after exactly what it is: A Next Level Coffee from Priory Farm! Wahoo!