New Math hasn’t sourced much Tanzania. Yet whenever we do, we’re impressed by the country’s potential to produce coffees that equals the great washed coffees from neighboring Rwanda and Kenya.

Lovely effervescent coffee, with generous citrus (grapefruit, lemon) and red fruit impressions (pomegranate). A bright cup that nevertheless feels accessible as a daily sipper.

This lot comes from about 180 smallholders organized around the Mwika North Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society (AMCOS). The co-op formed in 2013 as a breakaway from the larger Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union (KNCU). With support and training from the Technoserve-funded smallholder initiative Kilicafe, the Mwika North AMCOS was able to collect parchment and built its own centralized processing station. While AMCOS had to shutter when its funding ended, the co-op managed to resume and stabilize its processing operations from 2020 onward.

Region Kilimanjaro, Northern Tanzania

Lot Mwika North, Central Washed

Producer Group Mwika North AMCOS

Traceable to 180 members of Mwika North AMCOS

Production (Bags) 115

Altitude 1,675 masl

Varieties Bourbon, Jackson Bourbon

Processing Centrally Washed