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This has quickly become one of our favorite cups of coffee due to its juicy brightness and complex body. Top notes include a nectarine/white grape sweetness while the mid to lower pallet notes are honeycomb and baking spices verging on chocolate. Fitting within our experience with Tanzanian coffees, Iyenga AMCOS has the perfect body for daily drinking and the balanced brightness desired in a pour over. We taste: nectarine, honeycomb, and baking spices.
About the Producer:
Founded in the wake of Tanzania’s 2003 Cooperative Act, Iyenga AMCOS today represents 193 members and collects from just over 500 smallholder farmers. Most plots measure only 1–2 hectares, with none larger than 5, and nearly all are within walking distance of the washing station—though trucks and motorbikes run during harvest to ensure cherry is
pulped within eight hours of picking.
At harvest, the pulper runs from late afternoon until sundown. The government-granted Penagos UCBE 500 is eco-efficient and conserves water—a critical factor in this area, where seasonal dryness drives ongoing conversations about damming a local river or building a reservoir. Processing is meticulous: all cherry or parchment is hand-sorted, pulped,
fermented for 10–12 hours, washed, and dried on raised beds for 7–10 days.
Iyenga’s board has earned a reputation for capable management, pairing reliable collection services with strict pulping standards. More recently, they have set their sights on quality: in 2019, Iyenga won the Taste of Harvest competition with
their AA and PB coffees. Together, we are now focused on expanding drying bed capacity—an essential step toward extending drying times and realizing the cooperative’s quality ambitions.
Country: Tanzania
Crop Year: 2025
Producer: Iyenga AMCOS
Traceable To: 193 members
Region: Songwe
Process: Centrally Washed
Grade: AA/AB
Varietals: Bourbon, Jackson Bourbon
Altitude: 1,900 MASL
Production Volume: 200 bags
Certifications: None
Pricing Transparency
• “C” Market at Booking: $3.00/lb
• FOB Payment Over “C”: $0.85/lb
• Total FOB Paid: $3.85/lb
• Adrift Paid: $5.61/lb
This has quickly become one of our favorite cups of coffee due to its juicy brightness and complex body. Top notes include a nectarine/white grape sweetness while the mid to lower pallet notes are honeycomb and baking spices verging on chocolate. Fitting within our experience with Tanzanian coffees, Iyenga AMCOS has the perfect body for daily drinking and the balanced brightness desired in a pour over. We taste: nectarine, honeycomb, and baking spices.
About the Producer:
Founded in the wake of Tanzania’s 2003 Cooperative Act, Iyenga AMCOS today represents 193 members and collects from just over 500 smallholder farmers. Most plots measure only 1–2 hectares, with none larger than 5, and nearly all are within walking distance of the washing station—though trucks and motorbikes run during harvest to ensure cherry is
pulped within eight hours of picking.
At harvest, the pulper runs from late afternoon until sundown. The government-granted Penagos UCBE 500 is eco-efficient and conserves water—a critical factor in this area, where seasonal dryness drives ongoing conversations about damming a local river or building a reservoir. Processing is meticulous: all cherry or parchment is hand-sorted, pulped,
fermented for 10–12 hours, washed, and dried on raised beds for 7–10 days.
Iyenga’s board has earned a reputation for capable management, pairing reliable collection services with strict pulping standards. More recently, they have set their sights on quality: in 2019, Iyenga won the Taste of Harvest competition with
their AA and PB coffees. Together, we are now focused on expanding drying bed capacity—an essential step toward extending drying times and realizing the cooperative’s quality ambitions.
Country: Tanzania
Crop Year: 2025
Producer: Iyenga AMCOS
Traceable To: 193 members
Region: Songwe
Process: Centrally Washed
Grade: AA/AB
Varietals: Bourbon, Jackson Bourbon
Altitude: 1,900 MASL
Production Volume: 200 bags
Certifications: None
Pricing Transparency
• “C” Market at Booking: $3.00/lb
• FOB Payment Over “C”: $0.85/lb
• Total FOB Paid: $3.85/lb
• Adrift Paid: $5.61/lb