What is Drugar coffee?

DRUGAR stands for Dry Ugandan Arabica, and coffee growers across Uganda have been processing coffee this way for generations. Our Drugar comes from various smallholders across the country.

What is Ugandan coffee?

In the cup, Uganda's washed coffees bring satiny body and ripe stone fruit tones, along with a delicate touch of red berry and a buttery finish. The best natural coffees feature a lush dark berry jam flavor and mouthfeel, and clean nougat-like mid tones.

How is coffee graded in Uganda?

Final assessment of the grades shall be based on raw bean quality (colour and size as to the grade specified), roast quality (colour and size as to the grade specified), roast quality (general appearance and centre cuts), and liquor (a combination of acidity and body to give a flavour and aroma).

What does Ugandan coffee taste like?

The flavor profile varies depending on whether you try eastern washed coffee or DRUGAR, but Ugandan coffee has a smooth mouthfeel with hints of stonefruit and berries, like many African coffees.

What is FAQ coffee?

The resulting clean dry coffee beans are in both cases referred to as FAQ (Fair Average Quality).

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What grade of coffee is best?

Usually Good Quality refers to coffee of either Grade 3 (13-25 defects) or Grade 4 (26-45 defects). Strictly Hard Bean (SHB) coffee is grown between 1,600 and 1,700 m a.s.l. (amongst the best coffees in the world: complete, full bodied taste, with an acid and fragrant cup), from the region of Huehuetenango.

What does AA mean in coffee?

AA is a coffee grading term that refers to a specific, larger than normal, bean size. Kenya AA coffee beans, for example, pass through Grade 18 (18/64" diameter) sieve perforations, but are too large to pass through Grade 16 (16/64" diameter) sieve perforations. AA+ refers to coffee beans AA or larger.

Is Ugandan coffee good?

A good brewed cup of Bugishu coffee exhibits the desirably winey acidity of a fine East African coffee. However, the lower complexity and lighter body of Uganda Coffee makes it generally less distinguished than the finer coffees of Zimbabwe, Tanzania, or Kenya.

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Where is Ugandan coffee grown?

There are five, primary regions where coffee from Uganda is grown, with some of them bordering other countries: Northern Region (Lira and Gulu) Central and Southwest (Mukono, Kampala, Jinja, Masaka) Western Region (Kasese, Mbarara, bordering on The Democratic Republic of the Congo)

What is the best coffee to grow in Uganda?

Uganda has always been famous for its Robusta coffee, an indigenous species that still grows wild in the country's rainforests. Yet you'll also find Arabica growing in three regions: Mount Elgon in the east, the Rwenzori Mountains in the southwest, and West Nile in the northwest.

What is Eugenioides coffee?

Eugenioides is a very difficult coffee to grow, yielding only 150 grams per tree of unmilled coffee. It contains about half the caffeine of Arabica coffee, which causes the coffee to have almost no perceived bitterness. The defining characteristic of this coffee is its wild, almost unbelievable sweetness.

What is Rwanda coffee?

Characteristics. A fine Rwanda coffee offers a silky, creamy body along with the floral notes of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Coffee and the acidity of a Kenya coffee. The aroma may provide hints of lemon and orange blossom with floral notes complementing the sweet citrus qualities with hints of caramel in the aftertaste.

What is Tanzania coffee?

Most Tanzania coffees share the characteristically sharp, winy acidity typical of Africa and Arabia coffees. They tend to be medium- to full-bodied and fairly rich in flavor. Other Tanzania coffees from the Kilimanjaro region may exhibit soft, floral profiles reminiscent of similar washed Ethiopia coffees.

What is Kenyan coffee?

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With its rich body, high acidity, intense flavor, and delightful aroma, it should be no wonder. Kenyan coffee is known for its in-your-face acidity and berry undertones. One of those berry notes is black currant.

What is Uganda Tea?

Uganda tea is a product of one of the best known agricultural export plants, Camellia sinensis. The first time that it grew in Uganda was in 1900 when the missionaries introduced it. By the mid-20th century, there was a big number of plantations that cultivated the produce on the large-scale.

What is the number 1 coffee brand in the world?

With annual revenues of $23.52 billion, Starbucks tops the list of best coffee brands in the world. The world's largest coffee retailer, headquartered in Seattle, US, was founded in 1971. At present, its operations span across more than 33,800 stores in 80 countries.

What is the most expensive coffee?

In the West, kopi luwak has become known as "cat poop coffee." With prices ranging between $35 and $100 a cup, or about $100 to $600 a pound, kopi luwak is widely considered to be the most expensive coffee in the world.

Where does Uganda export its coffee?

Italy maintained the highest market share of Uganda's coffee imports followed by Algeria, Germany, the US and Belgium. Others were Sudan, Morocco, Egypt, and Kenya. Global coffee exports for September totalled 10 million bags down by 4.9 percent from 10.59 million bags in September 2020.

What coffee does Uganda produce?

Historically, most coffee produced in Uganda has been Robusta rather than Arabica. Robusta coffee is naturally occurring in Uganda, which accounts for its lasting popularity among Ugandan farmers. Robusta also offers several advantages over Arabica and yields more exportable product per area used for farmland.

Who introduced coffee in Uganda?

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The coffee was popular among the Baganda people, whose Buganda Kingdom was dominant in the Lake Victoria region from the 1840s through to the 1890s, when King Mwanga II signed a treaty with Britain establishing Buganda as a protectorate of the British East Africa Company.

What is Grade 1 coffee?

Grade 1: Specialty Grade Coffee Beans: no primary defects, 0-3 full defects, sorted with a maximum of 5% above and 5% below specified screen size or range of screen size, and exhibiting a distinct attribute in one or more of the following areas: taste, acidity, body, or aroma.

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What does AB mean in coffee?

Kenya AB coffee beans consist of both A and B coffee beans. The A grade is sorted using a 6.8 mm screen while the B grade is sorted using a 6.2 mm screen. These two types of beans, A and B, are mixed together to form the grade Kenya AB.