During his trip to Nairobi in Dec. of 2015, Tom had this casual conversation with Mette-Marie “Mia” Hansen about the confusing Kenyan coffee world and what it’s like being a woman working in the financial end of the coffee trade.
Mia works for C. Dorman Coffee Exporters as a buyer and trader that also buys coffee from TanzaniaIn terms of the Tanzania coffee character, it belongs to the Central/East African family of washed (wet-processed) coffees, bright (acidy), and mostly aggressively flavorful of which Kenya is certainly the dominant coffee. Peaberries are often, RwandaRwandan coffee was, at one time, rarely seen in the United States as either a Specialty grade or low-end commercial coffee. There simply was not that much coffee produced in Rwanda that went anywhere besides and Ethiopa.
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