Tanzania Peaberry Songwe +
ORIGIN
Mbeya & Songwe. Tanzania
PRODUCER
Various smallholders
PROCESSING
Washed
HARVEST SCHEDULE
July - September
VARIETY
Kent. Bourbon. N39. local Varieties
ALTITUDE (MASL)
1600
FLAVOR
Milk Chocolate, Candied Pecan, Red Currant Jam, Chamomile, Yuzu Citrus
The award-winning lsaiso 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 lsaiso 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. AM COS 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.
Pea berry coffee is a result of genetic mutation where only one seed develops inside a coffee cherry instead of two. Pea berries are usually smaller. denser. and rounder than regular coffee beans. Around 1 in 9 coffee cherries result in a pea berry: it takes patience to sort these out from the rest of the beans.
Many AMCOS have Coffee Production Units (CPUs) that process cherries for member farmers. Freshly picked cherries are delivered on the same day to a CPU. where they're sorted and pulped.
ORIGIN
Mbeya & Songwe. Tanzania
PRODUCER
Various smallholders
PROCESSING
Washed
HARVEST SCHEDULE
July - September
VARIETY
Kent. Bourbon. N39. local Varieties
ALTITUDE (MASL)
1600
FLAVOR
Milk Chocolate, Candied Pecan, Red Currant Jam, Chamomile, Yuzu Citrus
The award-winning lsaiso 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 lsaiso 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. AM COS 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.
Pea berry coffee is a result of genetic mutation where only one seed develops inside a coffee cherry instead of two. Pea berries are usually smaller. denser. and rounder than regular coffee beans. Around 1 in 9 coffee cherries result in a pea berry: it takes patience to sort these out from the rest of the beans.
Many AMCOS have Coffee Production Units (CPUs) that process cherries for member farmers. Freshly picked cherries are delivered on the same day to a CPU. where they're sorted and pulped.
ORIGIN
Mbeya & Songwe. Tanzania
PRODUCER
Various smallholders
PROCESSING
Washed
HARVEST SCHEDULE
July - September
VARIETY
Kent. Bourbon. N39. local Varieties
ALTITUDE (MASL)
1600
FLAVOR
Milk Chocolate, Candied Pecan, Red Currant Jam, Chamomile, Yuzu Citrus
The award-winning lsaiso 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 lsaiso 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. AM COS 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.
Pea berry coffee is a result of genetic mutation where only one seed develops inside a coffee cherry instead of two. Pea berries are usually smaller. denser. and rounder than regular coffee beans. Around 1 in 9 coffee cherries result in a pea berry: it takes patience to sort these out from the rest of the beans.
Many AMCOS have Coffee Production Units (CPUs) that process cherries for member farmers. Freshly picked cherries are delivered on the same day to a CPU. where they're sorted and pulped.