Is Tanzania Coffee Bitter? How to Drink Tanzania Coffee? Tanzania Coffee Growing Regions

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Coffee was first introduced to Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak located in northeastern Tanzania, as early as 1893 with the Bourbon variety. The coffee beans are primarily processed using the washed method. High-quality, high-altitude coffee exhibits lively and bright acidity similar to Kenyan coffee. Northern Tanzania features growing areas around Mt Kilimanjaro such as Moshi and Mbeya, while the southern region is dominated by the Songea-Ruvuma area through which the Ruvuma River flows. Due to different growing terrains, the styles vary slightly. Coffee produced in the Ruvuma region of southwestern Tanzania has wine and fruit aroma flavors, distinguishing it from coffee in the northern Kilimanjaro region.

In East Africa's Tanzania, coffee is the largest agricultural crop, primarily processed using the natural washed method. Tanzania's washed coffee style is reminiscent of Kenyan coffee beans, but the overall acidity is less intense than Kenyan beans, with a gentler, sweeter taste. Tanzania coffee leaves the impression of being very sweet and delicious, with rich hazelnut aroma—these are all results of careful manual selection, with overall performance being very balanced.

Besides the very distinctive coffee beans from Kenya and Ethiopia in the African region, most other African coffee beans require heavy roasting (generally C) to achieve sweet, smooth flavors with honey and hazelnut notes. When roasting Tanzania coffee, the nutty sweet aroma is very mellow. The coffee beans color quickly, and the cracking sounds are somewhat muted, not as loud and distinct as typical East African beans. This time, Tanzania Kigoma region's small round beans (PB) were selected. Kigoma is located in the volcanic terrain region of western Tanzania, with very few defective beans carefully selected by hand at a ratio of about 5%. When roasted to light roast (City), the coffee bean's weight loss ratio is 14%, with empty shells and defective beans accounting for 8%.

Mt Kilimanjaro volcano in northeastern Tanzania accounts for 75% of the production from Tanzania's largest coffee-growing region, with coffee beans of extraordinary quality. Important growing areas are in the northern mountains near Kenya, where smallholder coffee farmers account for 85% of cultivation. Local smallholder farmers grow coffee at altitudes between 1300-2000m. Their coffee flavor differs from neighboring Ethiopia and Kenya, possessing characteristics of both countries, with good body and fruit and floral aromas.

Kilimanjaro volcanic pearl round beans have a production ratio of about 3 to 5%, making them relatively scarce. Using the washed processing method, they have soft acidity similar to Kenyan coffee's red wine quality, low-key rounded acidity, and moderate viscosity. The quality can match Kenyan coffee. Besides the lingering aftertaste, they possess both fruit aroma and fruit acidity. The acidity is weaker than Kenyan, making it a milder coffee, with apricot and date-like rounded sweetness, slight spiceness, and malt chocolate notes.

Light Roast City (Aromatic)

After grinding, there are chamomile and vanilla aromas. It lacks the intense acidity of Kenyan PB small round beans, having sweet-sour plum-like acidity. There are no unpleasant tastes or uncomfortable flavors, very stable, allowing the coffee to gradually and clearly reveal its character.

Heavy Roast (General C)

Rich chocolate aroma with rounded, gentle, and smooth taste. The sweetness of almonds and hazelnuts releases a hazelnut fragrance during brewing, much like opening a sponge cake. The sweetness in the mouth lasts for a long time.

Tanzania Kigoma (PB) small round beans carry rich fruit aroma. The coffee is very sweet, while acidity has never been considered its strength. Friends who like African beans or are fond of Kenyan beans but don't like citrus acidity can experience a different African coffee style waiting for you to taste.

FrontStreet Coffee suggests Tanzania coffee pour-over parameters:

V60/1:15/90℃/2 minutes

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