It’s been a minute since our last Peaberry offering. Peaberry is the chicken and egg of the coffee world. Are peaberries inherently better, or do farmers and processors put more effort into processing their peaberry lots? There are lots of opinions on this out there for you to explore! No matter how you view it, this offering won’t disappoint.

This offering comes to us through the AMCOS (Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society) started in 2018. It was formed while implementing new regulations and has 168 members delivering fresh coffee. During harvest, producers deliver the fresh cherries, which run through a pulper. After being pulped, the parchment is graded and placed in the washing channels before it soaks in the tanks for 8-10 hours. The drying of the parchment will take 7-10 days in this area.

Microlots from Tanzania are traceable to the washing station level and are selected based on their cup quality. Due to the small average farm size, many producers (especially in the South) are members of AMCOS, which shares centralized cherry delivery and processing stations. The coffees at these receiving points are blended together and sorted before being separated by quality, and micro-lot selections represent the highest-scoring lots differentiated from the larger day lots.

Note that fully washed coffees from Tanzania are put through a fermentation process, while Whipped coffees are typically mechanically mucilage. Fully Washed lots are typically de-pulped the same day they're harvested, then fermented in cement tanks for 24–72 hours. They are then washed clean of mucilage and sorted through water channels before being spread on raised beds to dry or dried in mechanical driers. Sometimes, they are given an 8–12-hour post-washing soak before they are dried.

Tasting Notes: Milk Chocolate, Coffee Cherry, Floral, Fruit Acidity

Roast Profile: Medium Roast

Origin: Tanzania

Region: Mbozi, Songwe

Farm: Mahenje

Variety: Blue Mountain, Bourbon, Kilimanjaro, and Luwiro

Processing: Washed

Altitude: 1,500 - 1,700 masl - 4,920- 5,575ft