Introduction to the characteristics of boutique coffee beans in Kilimanjaro coffee producing area of Tanzania

On January 12, 1964, the Sang people overthrew the sultan and founded the Zanzibar people's Republic. Tanganyika and Zanzibar formed a United Republic on April 26, 1964, and changed its name to the United Republic of Tanzania on October 29 of the same year. Julius Kambarage Nyerere was the founding president and was re-elected twice until he resigned voluntarily in 1985. Mwinyi was elected the fourth President of the United Republic on October 27 of the same year, and was re-elected in 1990. At the beginning of 2010, there was a new trend of political reconciliation in Sang Island, and the Revolutionary Party and the Public RUF reached an agreement on the formation of a unity government in Sang Island. In July of the same year, the Sang referendum adopted a resolution on the establishment of a national unity government. In November, the general election was held smoothly, and the Sang Island established a national unity government. The president, the second vice president and 11 ministers came from the Revolutionary Party. Sang's first vice president and 8 ministers came from the RUF all over Tanzania. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, showing a ladder. The eastern coast is a lowland, the western inland plateau accounts for more than half of the total inland area, and the East African Rift Valley runs from east to west from Lake Malawi to the north and south. The Kibo peak of Mount Kilimanjaro in the northeast, which is 5895 meters above sea level, is the highest peak in Africa, which is divided into bimodal distribution and unimodal distribution. The areas with double bee rainfall include the provinces around the Lake Victoria basin, the northeast highlands, the coastal and inland northeastern. The bimodal rainfall area is characterized by two rainy seasons. The short rainy season occurs from September to December. The total rainfall can reach 200-500 mm. The long rainy season occurs from March to May, and the rainfall reaches 300-600 mm. The areas outside the double bee distribution rainfall area belong to the single bee distribution rainfall area. The rainfall time is from November to April, and the rainfall is up to 500-1000 mm.

Mount Mount Kilimanjaro, located in northeastern Tanzania, is the highest mountain in Africa at 5895 meters above sea level. The ultra-high altitude makes the top of the mountain snow all the year round, while Tanzania's main coffee producing area is located at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. The area is rich in volcanic soil, which brings an adequate supply of nutrients for the growth of coffee trees. Coffee trees are generally planted at high elevations above 1150 meters, which is one of the prerequisites for Arabica to develop a high-quality flavor.

Tanzanian coffee is mostly washed. After picking, coffee farmers will send the coffee fruit to the nearest processing plant for processing. The treatment step of the water washing method is to screen and remove the impurities in the coffee fruit, then remove the coffee pulp and exocarp, and send it into the fermentation tank to remove the pectin layer on the inner pericarp by fermentation. clean and then dry. Coffee in Tanzania is graded in the same way as in Kenya, both according to the size of coffee beans. When screening raw coffee beans through a sieve with fixed size holes, the larger the number of the sieve is, the larger the particles of raw coffee beans are. The flat beans classified by size are mainly AA+, AA, AB. In addition, PB (peaBerry), which is more produced in Kenya and Tanzania, also has a set of sieve size standards dedicated to grading the size of round beans.

Tanzania is also often compared with its nearest neighbor Kenya. It is said that the earliest Arabica coffee in Tanzania was introduced by Christians from Kenya and is similar to Kenya in flavor characteristics. With grapefruit aromas and soft and bright acidity. However, because the economic conditions of Tanzania are worse than those of Kenya, the production conditions are poor. Tanzania's quality control is not strict enough, destroying the quality of coffee in many processing links, which can not compete with Kenya, which is famous for its high quality. Although it is similar to the Kenyan flavor, Tanzania as a whole is smoother and softer and belongs to the balanced type. With moderately low acidity and sweetness, dark chocolate finish, moderate mellow thickness. Compared with Kenya, which has a prominent personality, Tanzania is less hierarchical and does not give a very prominent feature after drinking, which makes people less impressive. But on the contrary, its soft and round characteristics are also more agreeable, which is easy to be accepted by people who are new to coffee.