Producer: Various smallholders

Variety: Kent, Bourbon, N39, local Varieties

Region: Mbeya & Songwe

Altitude: 1600 masl

Process: Fully washed

This is our first peaberry menu offering and it’s a beauty. Peaberries tend to have a different flavor profile than regular seeds from the same plant.

We chose this coffee from Tanzania for it’s delicate mouthfeel and overwhelming sweetness. It reminds us of pecan pie with caramel and milk chocolate. Delicious!

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Tanzania Peaberry Plus

The award-winning Isaiso Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society (AMCOS) was founded in 2008 and boasts 350 farmer members. Most of them are smallholders with farms ranging from one to two hectares at 1350-1490masl. In 2023, the Isaiso AMCOS won the Tanzania Fine Coffee Competition with this peaberry coffee, an outstanding achievement for all the hard work they put into improving both volume and quality.

In Tanzania, AMCOS manage 95% of the country’s coffee production. Smallholders must be registered to an AMCOS to qualify for support in production, processing, storage, transport, marketing, and government aid. Without membership, their raw green coffee would have no way of reaching the global market.

Peaberry Coffee From Tanzania

Peaberry coffee is a result of genetic mutation where only one seed develops inside a coffee cherry instead of two. Peaberries are usually smaller, denser, and rounder than regular coffee beans. Around 1 in 9 coffee cherries result in a peaberry; it takes patience to sort these out from the rest of the beans.