Harvest No. 14
$26Kiamwangi AA
Nyeri County, Kenya
Blackcurrant · Tamarind · Cane sugar
- Producer
- Gathaithi Factory · 612 smallholders
- Process
- Washed · SL28 & SL34
- Altitude
- 1,780 m
- Roast
- Light
14 bags on the shelf
Harvest No. 14Landed 22 July 2026 · 14 bags
KiamwangiAANyeri County, Kenya
Six hundred and twelve smallholders deliver cherry to the Gathaithi factory, a tin-roofed washing station above the Chania river. We have bought from them every year since 2018. This lot is the sharpest we have had: blackcurrant on the nose, tamarind through the middle, and a finish like sugar cane you have just snapped in half.
- Varietal
- SL28 / SL34
- Altitude
- 1,780 m
- Process
- Washed, 18 h
- Roast
- Filter, light
Roasted Tuesday & FridayFree shipping over $40Cupping every Friday, 10am, freeBike delivery inside I-205Roast date on every bagEst. 2014 on SE Ankeny
01 — The range
Six coffees.
No filler.
We keep the list short on purpose. Two seasonal single origins, two that hold their place through the year, one blend for the espresso machine and one decaf we would happily drink at breakfast. Everything is 340 g, whole bean unless you tell us otherwise, stamped with the day it left the roaster.
New arrival
$24Idido Gedeb
Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia
Apricot · Jasmine · Peach iced tea
- Producer
- Negusse Wolde · 3.1 ha
- Process
- Natural · Heirloom
- Altitude
- 2,050 m
- Roast
- Light
Landed 2 Aug
La Esperanza
Huila, Colombia
Red plum · Panela · Orange peel
- Producer
- Marta Cifuentes · 4th harvest with us
- Process
- Washed · Pink Bourbon
- Altitude
- 1,690 m
- Roast
- Light-medium
Year-round
Wahana Takengon
Aceh, Sumatra
Cedar · Molasses · Tobacco leaf
- Producer
- Koperasi Ketiara · 41 members
- Process
- Wet-hulled · Ateng
- Altitude
- 1,420 m
- Roast
- Medium-dark
Through November
Bar standard
$17Ankeny Blend
Colombia & Brazil
Cocoa nib · Toasted almond · Dried fig
- Producer
- Our house espresso since 2014
- Process
- Washed & pulped natural
- Altitude
- 1,150–1,700 m
- Roast
- Medium
Always on
Nightjar Decaf
Cajamarca, Peru
Milk chocolate · Baked pear · Walnut
- Producer
- APROCASSI · sugarcane EA process
- Process
- Washed · Bourbon & Typica
- Altitude
- 1,850 m
- Roast
- Medium
Year-round
All bags 340 g · Grind to order, free · Free US shipping over $40 · Roast dates stamped by hand
02 — Subscriptions
Coffee that
arrives warm
Every subscription bag is roasted the morning it ships — Tuesday or Friday — and posted the same afternoon. Skip a delivery, change the grind, swap the coffee, or stop entirely from one page. No contract, no cancellation email you have to write twice.
The Perch
One 340 g bag, every other week
For one devoted drinker. We choose the lot, you get the story card — and you can veto anything you did not love.
$21per shipment
- Rotating single origin, never repeated twice running
- Free shipping in the lower 48
- Grind set once, remembered forever
- Skip, pause or swap before Sunday midnight
The Thermal
Two bags, monthly
The one most households land on: one filter single origin and one bag of Ankeny Blend for the machine on the counter.
$39per month
- One single origin + one blend, your split
- First refusal on micro-lots under 12 bags
- 10% off brewing gear in the roastery shop
- Free shipping in the lower 48
The Aerie
Three bags, every other week
For the household that grinds twice a day, or the office that finally gave up on the pods in the cupboard.
$92per month
- Reserve lots — Gesha, Sidra, the small experimental fermentations
- Two seats at the Friday cupping, whenever you want them
- Annual green-buying report from Tomás, our buyer
- 15% off retail, all year
Gift subscriptions available in 3, 6 and 12 month lengths · First shipment leaves within four days of ordering
03 — How we roast
Five steps,
eleven minutes
Nothing here is a secret. The difference between a good roast and a forgettable one is attention paid in the same places, every single batch, for twelve years.
The cupping table
Every sample is scored blind, three times, on three different days by three palates. Anything under 86 goes back with notes. In 2025 we tasted 419 samples and bought 31 of them.
Sample roasting
Priya builds twelve 100 g profiles per lot on the Ikawa, chasing the version of the coffee that tastes most like itself. The winning curve gets scaled, not copied.
Production
Merlin, our Loring S15, does the work: closed-loop air, no afterburner, roughly 80% less gas than the drum we started on. Junco, a 1971 Probat UG-22, still handles the small reserve lots.
Rest & pack
Four days of degassing before a bag is sealed. Kraft, one-way valve, nitrogen flush, roast date stamped by hand — not a best-before eighteen months out.
Out the door
Subscriptions roast Tuesday morning and Friday morning and leave for the Hollywood District post office at 4pm the same day. Portland orders go out by bike inside I-205.
Profile sheet · Batch 8811
Kiamwangi AA — filter
Bean temp Rate of riseDTR 21.4%
12 kg
Batch size
419
Samples cupped, 2025
4 days
Rest before packing
04 — Sourcing
We buy
at origin,
by name
Tomás Bengochea, our green buyer, flies four times a year and comes home with contracts written in front of the people who grew the coffee. We publish what we paid, in full, every February. In 2025 our average FOB price was $4.15 a pound — about 2.6 times the C-market — and 91% of our lots came from a farm we had already bought from.
$4.15
Average FOB per pound, 2025
2.6×
Above the C-market benchmark
91%
Of lots from returning farms
4
Origin trips a year
05 — Wholesale
Forty-two
rooms pour
our coffee
We have supplied cafés, bakeries and one very good hotel lobby since 2015. Wholesale here is not a price list and a pallet — it is a person who answers the phone, a recipe card for every lot, and a standing offer to come and re-dial your grinder when the weather turns.
Trade pricing from
$13.20 / lb
Ankeny Blend, five-pound bags, ten pound weekly minimum. Single origins from $16.40. Delivery is free inside I-205 and flat $18 to the rest of Oregon and Washington.
Pouring our coffee
- Rosemallow — SE Division
- Bureau Coffee — Old Town
- Half Moon Bakehouse — Sellwood
- The Ledger — Ballard, Seattle
- Ovenbird Sandwiches — NE Fremont
- Fern & Ash Hotel — Pearl District
- Cardinal Books & Coffee — Hood River
- Little Sparrow — Corvallis
The practical questions
What is the minimum order?
Ten pounds a week, in any combination of coffees. Below that you are better served by our subscription — no hard feelings, and we will still dial you in.
How fresh will it arrive?
Wholesale roasts Monday and Thursday. Orders placed before 2pm the day prior are on your bench within 48 hours inside the Portland metro, and 72 hours anywhere in Oregon and Washington.
Do you help with equipment?
We will spec a grinder and a machine to your volume, install it, and put you on the schedule of our service partner, Ridgeline Espresso Repair. We do not sell hardware at a markup.
Is training included?
Yes. Two half-days at the roastery for your opening staff, a dial-in visit within your first fortnight, and a standing invitation to the Friday cupping for as long as you pour our coffee.
“Best Coffee Roaster”
“Good Food Awards finalist”
“Restraint is the whole trick, and Kestrel has it”
“The Kiamwangi is the most articulate Kenyan on any bar in town”
06 — Come by
The roastery
on SE Ankeny
Twelve seats, one Modbar, a Mahlkönig EK43 and whatever Priya has been arguing with all week. The cupping table is open to anybody at 10am on Fridays — no booking, no charge, no coffee vocabulary required.
Find us
Kestrel & Co. Roastery1148 SE Ankeny St
Portland, Oregon 97214
(503) 555-0148
Kiosk: 3300 NE Alberta St, weekends only, 8am–1pm.
Hours
- Wed — Fri
- 7am — 3pm
- Saturday
- 8am — 4pm
- Sunday
- 8am — 2pm
- Mon — Tue
- Roasting only
Public cupping · Fridays 10am · Free
The flight log
A short note when
a new lot lands
Twice a month at the very most. What arrived, what it tastes like, what Tomás paid for it, and the occasional brew recipe that actually works on a kitchen scale.