Silver Oak Coffee - Tanzania - Smallholders of Iyenga



Location of roaster: Ely, North Cambridgeshire
How to find: https://silveroakcoffee.co.uk/about-us/

The coffee itself


Tanzania produced about 20,000 - 40,000 metric tons of coffee annually, of which 70% is arabica and 30% is robusta. Production is small scale, with individual small group farmers growing and selling the beans abroad. There is relatively little domestic consumption, as coffee is expensive there and the population prefers tea.

Nose: vanilla, chocolate and floral notes
Taste: Blackcurrant, some acidity, very subtle hint of fructose 

Still in production: the company has moved on to Rwandan coffees at time of writing. It would still be worth buying those too!


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Welcome!

Thank you for visiting this page! Mission Statement The purpose of this blog is to talk about coffee, that rather special little product which has kept the world going for millenia. I will be focusing on coffee beans, especially from roasters around where I live, in Cambridgeshire. Background Over the past ten years, people have been paying more and more attention to specialty coffee. The giants of Starbucks, Costa and Cafe Nero are increasingly supplanted by a wave of smaller independent coffee shops selling much more refined drinks. Alongside this is an expanding market of coffee roasters, who carefully source their product from across the world to supply these coffee shops and the pantry cupboards of individual consumers.  As a result of this wave we consumers are expanding our palate: we are moving away from the classical dark "coffee" taste of commercial products towards coffee that tastes like dark fruit, or citrus, or chocolate, or flowers, or even tea!  Consumers are ...
Read more