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Tanzania Coffee Profile

The finest Tanzania coffee beans come primarily from Mount Kilimanjaro. Processed with the washed method, they show acidity similar to Kenyan coffee with a red-wine quality: soft, pleasant, understated acidity, a rounded mouthfeel, and medium viscosity.

Beyond a lingering aftertaste, Tanzanian beans carry both fruity aroma and fruity acidity. The acidity is weaker than Kenya's, which makes this a relatively mild coffee.

Brewing Parameters

Brewing Method: Clever Dripper

Roasting Interpretation: Japanese-style roasting — 200°C bean drop — 25 minutes — first crack begins to emerge

Coffee Experience

Open the bag and the aroma pours out: very intense citrus and chocolate fragrance.

The beans are very full, and once crushed they release a carbon-roasted aroma.

Bean size approximately 1.12cm.

Brewing Journey

Before describing the taste, let me mention how I brewed this bean.

Initially, following the owner's suggestion, I ground it at setting 3.5 on the Feima coffee grinder, but found it had a heavy enzymatic taste, somewhat like eating very ripe pineapple, or a soy sauce flavor. I'm not sure whether my taste buds were just off that afternoon.

Later I tried adjusting the water ratio — because when I previously drank their Guatemala natural process, I felt the water amount needed to be increased by 1/4. This combination eliminated the enzymatic flavor and brought out citrus and chocolate aromas, but the taste was somewhat weak, like a slightly stronger hot Americano from 7-11.

After finishing the Table no.2 Kenya AA beans, I began to seriously study this Tanzania coffee bean. In the end I settled on the best flavor by using setting 4 on the Feima grinder with a normal water amount.

The taste brewed this way was truly excellent.

The initial flavor resembles Mandheling, with a rich, mellow taste and a fragrant carbon-roasted note plus chocolate. However, as it reaches medium temperature the mellowness gradually fades, and citrus aroma emerges with very light acidity.

After drinking, the aftertaste differs noticeably from Mandheling. After Mandheling, the aftertaste is more of coffee aroma; the aftertaste of this Tanzania AA is citrus fruit aroma.

So personally, if you need a morning pick-me-up, drink it while the mellowness is strong at high temperature. For the afternoon, you can slowly savor the taste as it changes with temperature.

Further Experiments

Today I tested with a 5% increase in bean amount, and the flavor changed again.

Close to Mandheling's carbon-roasted aroma, but without bitterness, still very fragrant and mellow even at low temperature, with light acidity. The fruity aroma and citrus flavor, however, were less apparent.

Additionally, after drinking there is a viscous sensation in the mouth. I used to think it was the hot, dry weather, but today the temperature dropped and, with the higher bean dose, it became more noticeable. From the inner cheeks and the front of the tongue comes a continuous release of sweetness.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

A Tanzania like this is at home in an Americano, and if that is how you drink it, a blend built for the job makes life easy. FrontStreet Classic Blend is an Indonesian Mandheling, Brazilian red Bourbon, and washed Vietnamese recipe in the traditional Italian style: low in acidity and full-bodied with Asian herbal and woody tones, yet balanced and creamy in the American style. Extraction brings butter, nut, spice, and dark chocolate aroma, with wild character and abundant crema whether you brew Americano or latte.

If value is your priority, FrontStreet Black Cocoa Blend combines Yunnan small bean and Brazil Cerrado. As an Americano it carries nut, chocolate, and cream aromas with a ripe plum acidity and a soft overall body — approachable and budget-friendly, and just as well suited to a cafe as to a home kitchen.

And when you tire of deep-roasted espresso, FrontStreet Strawberry Candy Espresso Blend is a medium-roasted blend of single origins from three renowned regions. It brings a rose aroma with low bitterness and gentle acidity, and both Americano and latte show grape, dried blueberry, sweet orange, and fruit-candy flavors with an almond finish.