FEBRUARY 2023 DISCOVERY COFFEE

TANZANIA - AAA/AA Umoja Natural

RED APPLE, HAZELNUT, BROWN SUGAR

OMNI ROAST (What’s an omni roast?)

REGION | Mbozi, Mbeya

PROCESS | Natural 

SPECIES | Arabica 

VARIETALS | Bourbon & Kent

ALTITUDE | 1650 MASL

HISTORY OF COFFEE IN TANZANIA

Taking the average number of bags exported annually 2007-2017—to account for crop fluctuations—Tanzania experienced an increase of 11 percent over the previous 10 years. That might not seem like much until you consider that only two other African countries have experienced growth by the same measure, Ethiopia (37%) and Uganda (1%). Tanzania broke the million bags exported ceiling for the first time in 2009 and did it again in 2013. This increase in exports has coincided with a near 600 percent increase in domestic coffee consumption over twenty years. The only coffee growing country to experience a more dramatic increase is Vietnam, where domestic coffee consumption has grown by 700 percent over the same period.