Tanzania Kibo Chagga Coffee
Tasting Notes
Nectarine, Orange, PassionfruitOrigin
TanzaniaRegion
KilimanjaroAltitude
1,200mProcess
WashedRecommended brew method
The Coffee
Tanzania Kibo Chagga is undoubtedly a H.R. Higgins signature and has been a well-loved part of our range for many years.
Just after the Second World War, Harold Higgins tasted, almost by chance, a coffee which seemed to him to have tremendous possibilities. An East African Chagga coffee with a kinship in flavour with Colombia coffees from South America, which were unavailable at the time.
He discovered the beans were grown by African farmers on the slopes of Kilimanjaro and began a quest to source this unique coffee. Thwarted by the closed shop wholesale system of his regular sources he journeyed to Moshi at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro to meet the farmers.
Absconding from an organised trip to Nairobi he boarded a local bus to be welcomed by the farmers, indigenous Chagga people, and became the first coffee merchant in London to buy directly from African farmers, a relationship which still stands to this day.
Roasted light, Tanzania Kibo Chagga is deliciously fruity, with notes of nectarine, orange and passion fruit.
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Mr Higgins Favourite Coffee
I am often asked “Mr Higgins, which is your favourite coffee?”
That question takes me all the way back to when I first Joined the company. Then I was the most junior member of staff. Though I had worked in the business before leaving school and for as long as I could remember, I was the new boy, a trainee.
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