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Tanzania – Microlot – AA Lungwa – Green Unroasted
In Stock: 52 LbsAbout: The Lungwa AMCOS started by producing home-processed coffees. After seeing the benefit and the opportunity of switching to fully washed, they decided to buy a pulper and build fermentation tanks. In future, they want to acquire a bigger Ecopulper in order to process more cherries.
The farmers of Lungwa deliver the cherries and they are put through the pulper. After being pulped, the parchment is graded into P1, P2, P3, P lights and pods in the washing channels. The parchment is then fermented for 24-34 hours, before it gets washed in the washing channels. It is then soaked for 8 hours and dried on the tables for 7-10 days. Because of the hot climate, the fermenting and drying process do not require a long time.
Lungwa harvests coffee from June to August.
Microlot
Microlots from Tanzania are traceable to the washing station level and are selected basis their cup quality. Due to the small average farm size, many producers (especially in the South) are members of AMCOS, Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Societies, which share centralized cherry delivery and processing stations. The coffees at these receiving points are blended together and sorted before being separated by quality, and microlot selections represent the highest-scoring lots differentiated from the larger day lots.
The Cup: Clove and cooked grapefruit flavors with tart acidity and mild sugary sweetness.