Uganda Coffee Beans

A natural coffee from Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains, produced by smallholders working with Agri Evolve. Guava and mango lead the profile, with a smooth tropical sweetness through the finish.

Dried Fruit. Spice. Strawberry. Chewy. All the caffeine. All the flavour. Expect rich dried fruit, chewy, spicy, and a hint of strawberry in every cup of our specialty Robusta/Canephora, sourced directly from Nafeesa Esmail’s farm in Mukono, Uganda. With a medium to dark roast to unlock a deeply comforting and deliciously moreish profile, it shines best as a big, chewy espresso or a full-bodied filter brew. What's the secret to these unforgettable flavours? This lies in Nafeesa’s expertise as a conservation scientist and founder of ASISI Coffee. By growing the coffee under the shade of an indigenous forest and using a mosto aerobic natural method, Nafeesa perfectly balances nature conservation with craft to bring out its remarkably sweet and complex flavour.

A natural coffee from Agri Evolve in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains, grown at 1,700 masl from SL-14 and SL-28. Cantaloupe melon, chamomile, and agave syrup notes make it bright, sweet, and gently floral.

This is the kind of coffee that feels right for the first warm mornings of the year. A juicy, fruit-forward Uganda filled with cherry sweetness, dark fruit richness and a bright, lively acidity that keeps you coming back for another sip. A vibrant coffee helping showcase Uganda’s incredible potential.

This is a coffee you wouldn’t usually see in a specialty roaster’s list: Drugar is short for Dried Uganda Arabica. This is usually a home-dried coffee that normally sells on the internal market in Uganda because it’s not considered worthy of export. Unlike Ethiopia, the internal market in Uganda doesn’t pay particularly well for coffee, so producing exportable coffee creates a massive income difference for farmers. Our friends Dana, Shak, and Michael at The Coffee Gardens do amazing social work, and they saw an opportunity to raise incomes for farmers by collecting cherry, drying and sorting some of the Drugar with their partners at TCY. They blended it with some of their rejects, and elevating it to exportable quality while paying a premium. It was quite a delicious cup just as they sent it to us, but with the added advantage of our colour sorter to clean it up even further, this coffee becomes truly beautiful. We bought the entire lot of 37 sacks. This is a rare case where the old specialty coffee story of 'helping a farmer improve quality so they make more money' is actually true. This coffee now tastes like rum punch and cherry Kool-Aid: an inflation-beating juice bomb. The Coffee Gardens was established in 2017 with the goal of producing incredible specialty coffees in an ethical way, offering a transparent and direct link between coffee farmers and coffee consumers. The project was established for many purposes: to improve farmers’ income and livelihoods, create and provide rural employment, promote gender equality, increase transparency and traceability throughout the supply chain, promote and work on environmental protection in the area, and provide training in good agricultural practices. Elevation: 1400-2300 Metres Above Sea Level Varietal: SL14, SL28, Nyasaland Cup Score: 87 Price paid per kilo: £7 Process: Fully natural, home-dried by coffee-growing smallholders