Tanzania
Tanzania has diverse coffee growing regions and a well-established name... but what about quality? Tanzanian coffee, when well-processed, can have Kenya-like bright notes, unique fruited flavors, and cooked sugar sweetness. Tanzanian coffees can be lovely!
With the stately and scenic Mount Kilimanjaro marking the coffee-producing lands of the North, and beautiful Lake Tanganyika in the South, it may seem remarkable that Tanzania coffee can remain in the shadows to that of any other land. But when you neighbor Kenya, the powerhouse of coffee in East Africa, it's not only possible, it is likely.
A mixed history of false-starts in coffee production, the unsure agendas of German and English colonial rule, priorities for other food crops, and unfortunate loss of coffee trees from plant illness has held Tanzania from its coffee potential, in both volume and cup quality. You can read more about the way we source Tanzania coffee, and link to our videos and travelogues, on our Tanzania Coffee Library page.
