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Kibo Tanzania Peaberry Fair Trade

Full City Roast

• Aroma: blossom, berry
• Flavor: sweet
• Body: medium, dry
• Acidity: bright, balanced
• Aftertaste: sweet, luscious fruit

Certifications: Fair Trade

Moshi Tanzania Peaberry Flavor Profile

Very sweet and fragrant showing off a lot of floral and luscious fruit character. Bright and mellow acidity balances well with this coffee's richness. An all around pleasant cup of coffee to relax with.

What’s a Peaberry?

Normally the fruit of a coffee plant develops as two halves of a bean within a single cherry but sometimes only one of the two seeds gets fertilized. This one bean—or peaberry— gains all the nutrients that normally two beans would soak in during the growing season lending themselves to such fragrant aromas and bold flavors. Only about 5 - 8% of all coffee beans harvested are peaberries, and those are usually blended in with other non-peaberry beans.

We made sure to separate the Peaberries from the rest of our lot of Tanzania because we wanted to offer something truly unique. Peaberries have a reputation for roasting and tasting better. You’ll notice this in each sweet and lively sip.

Follow the Journey around the world

Our Tanzanian coffee’s journey to the USA would probably qualify it as a participant in the televised show, “The Amazing Race.” In mid-December 2008 we purchased 180 bags (37,500 pounds) of Peaberry and 120 bags of AA-grade coffee required to fill one 40-foot shipping container. Our plan was to send the container to the port of Dar Es Salaam and get it on the ship before the holidays started. ..No such luck!

The transport company in charge of moving the coffee from the Co-op’s mill to the port was already on holiday time. What should have taken 3 days of transport instead lasted 7. The delay didn’t matter though because once the coffee arrived in Dar es Salaam the ship owner informed us that the propeller/steering system needed repair and would not set sail until mid-January.

Once the repairs had been made, the ship set sail on 1/27 to the far East- not the way we expected! The traditional shipping route from east Africa is Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, Suez Canal, Mediterranean Sea, Gibraltar, and then New York. This route usually takes 30 days to complete. Our ship’s route instead went to Indonesia, Singapore, and across the north Pacific. We estimated that the coffee unnecessarily went ¾ of the way around the world, traveled 16-18,000 miles, and took an additional 4-5 weeks to arrive in New York… lesson learned. But now we finally get to roast it and it tastes great.