Kilenso Coffee

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Coffee from the land our family was born on

Kilenso Coffee is a second-generation family business from the Guji Highlands of Ethiopia. We grow coffee on our own farms, work with partner farmers across the region, and process, roast and export it ourselves, so every bag can be traced from the soil to your cup.

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Kilenso in business

  • Plantation farm: Our own farms in Guji, with 2 washing stations and 2 sun drying sites, alongside partner farmers across the region.
  • Coffee shops and roasting (1 branch): We roast our own coffee and serve it, from bean to cup, in our coffee shop.
  • Export: Washed, natural and honey green coffee for roasters and importers, traceable to where it was grown.
Workers sorting red coffee cherries and parchment coffee on long raised drying bedsA cappuccino with latte art beside a bag of Kilenso Coffee on a café tableA jute sack of Kilenso Coffee Ethiopian Guji natural green coffee in a warehouse, ready for export

Our coffee

One harvest, many ways to enjoy it

Washed

Green coffee with the fruit removed before drying. Clean, bright and floral, prepared for export.

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Natural

Green coffee dried whole in the cherry under the Guji sun. Sweet, fruity and full.

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Honey

Green coffee dried with some of the sweet fruit left on the bean. Balanced and rounded.

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Roasted beans

Roasted by us and packed fresh in our own bags, for cafes and coffee lovers.

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Ground coffee

Ground for jebena, filter or espresso, ready to brew at home.

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Find us in the Guji Highlands

in the Horn of Africa

THE HORN OF AFRICA

Ethiopia is where coffee was first discovered, and still where much of the world’s finest grows.

ETHIOPIA

In the south, the Guji Highlands rise between 1,750 and 2,000 metres.

OUR COFFEE ORIGINS

From our home village of Kilenso Mokonisa in the Guji Highlands to Uraga, Shakiso, Kercha and Sidama.

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Our story

The roots of Kilenso

Ato Elias Miju Ababenda was born in Kilenso Mokonisa and has spent more than 25 years growing, producing and supplying coffee from the land he grew up on.

Through years of coffee production, collection and domestic trade, he built deep relationships with coffee-growing communities across Guji and supplied high-grade coffee to the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange and to exporters. That work laid the foundation of Kilenso Trading PLC.

In our logo, the upright stem of the K stands for him. The two leaves growing from it are his children, who now plant, roast and export coffee under the name of the village where it all started.

Find your connection to Kilenso

Whether you roast, import, or simply love great coffee, there’s a way to work with us.

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Samples for roasters and importers

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