Tanzania Iyenga

A classic Tanzanian coffee with wooded honey notes, sour cherries and wine gum notes. It works very well as an espresso and filter or any brew method.

This coffee comes from the Iyenga village, which was originally a part of the Itumpi village, but the villagers found it difficult to access government resources due to distance, and thus created their own village in 1974. The government also established a hospital and school within the community to provide the villages with essential resources. This is also the location of the Iyenga Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society (AMCOS), which was created in 2003 under the Tanzanian Cooperative Act. Today, the AMCOS has 292 members, with 34 females and 258 males.

Neighboring Kenya, Tanzania produces similar quality coffee and is comprised primarily of smallholder producers.

Kenya’s less well-known neighbour produces an astoundingly similar-tasting coffee in a somewhat similar landscape.