Location: Wahgi Valley, Western Highlands Province
Lot: Sigri Estate
Elevation: 1,550 meters
Soil Type: Volcanic
Roast Level: Dark
Cup: Bourbon, Typica, Catimor
Process: Fully Washed, Sun-dried, Hand-sorted
A dark espresso has always been the staple to every early morning for professional baseball player, Austin Kitchen. Kitchen and Master Roaster Cory Withrow combined to produce the AK Espresso Batch - crafted for clarity and brewed for balance. A smooth, rich, refined sip for sustained energy - an espresso that works as hard as you do. The AK Espresso Batch is an optimized caffeine espresso for high-performance days - whether at home, in the gym, in meetings or on the go. This espresso is brewed for bold ideas, big decisions, and high results - created by professional athletes who know what it takes.
Established in March 2025, professional baseball pitcher Austin Kitchen brings his private coffee roasts to all coffee lovers, in launching The K Collection, presented by The Kings Craft Coffee Co. A coffee roast aficionado, Kitchen has made it a job requirement to seek out the perfect beans, ingredients, and balanced caffeine formula, to perform at the highest levels as a professional athlete - He’s Brewing.
Flavor Profile, Characteristics, Estate Facts
AK Espresso Batch cupping notes and flavor profile will highlight a bourbon, hickory background note, layered, refined sweetness. Silky smooth and very clean. Lower acidity with good sweetness and balance. Sigri coffee is sun dried to further enhance flavor. Careful conditioning of 21 days is followed by hulling, grading, color sorting and finally hand sorting. This combined with rigorous quality control before packing produces the finest green bean for which Sigri is renowned.
Papua New Guinea Sigri Estate AA, situated in the Wahgi Valley, in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, was established in the 1950s and rapidly gained a reputation that has continued to grow with Sigri being internationally recognized as producing a gourmet coffee equal to the world's best for more than 20 years.
All plantings are exclusively Arabica, concentrating on the Typica varieties which originate from seed introduced to Papua New Guinea from Jamaica Blue Mountain Typica rootstock. Coffee is grown at 5000 feet in elevation.
Fun Fact
Austin Kitchen once pitched for the Spokane Indians (Washington), a member of the High-A Northwest League, an affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. Cory Withrow was born in Spokane, Washington. Both have reached the highest levels of their respective sports in the MLB and NFL.
