Arabica Coffee Beans: Varieties, Flavor and Origins
Coffea arabica is the species behind most of the coffee people drink and nearly all of the coffee sold as specialty. The International Coffee Organization reports that Arabicas made up …
Tanzanian Coffee: Regions, Grades, Peaberry and Flavor
Tanzania grows both arabica and robusta — 60.9 per cent arabica and 39.1 per cent robusta by production — and they come from opposite ends of the country. Arabica grows …
Rwandan Coffee: Washed Arabica and the Potato Defect
Rwanda grows arabica, almost all of it Bourbon, and almost all of it fully washed. In the 2023/24 financial year the country exported 16,479 metric tonnes of coffee for $78,712,092, …
Ugandan Coffee: Robusta Country, History and Numbers
Uganda is a robusta country. Of a forecast 7.16 million 60-kilogram bags for 2026/27, 6.03 million are robusta and 1.14 million arabica — about 84 per cent robusta. That makes …
Kenyan Coffee Grades, Varieties and Flavor Explained
Kenya’s coffee grades — AA, AB, PB, C, E, TT, T — sort beans by screen size, density and defect count. They describe the bean, not the flavour in the …
Ethiopian Coffee: Regions, History and Genetics
Ethiopia is the centre of origin of Coffea arabica, and its coffee is sold under region names — Yirgacheffe, Sidama/Sidamo, Guji, Harar, Limu and Jimma — that Ethiopia owns as …
