• African Moon, Uganda
  • African Moon, Uganda
  • African Moon, Uganda

African Moon, Uganda

Chocolate / Berry / Floral

Fantastic natural coffee from our friends Omwani who do great work in supporting farms in Eastern Africa. This is a funky, fruity coffee with notes of chocolate and floral tones.

Origin: Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda
Variety: SL14, SL18
Process: Natural
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Pickup available at Blend Contemporary

Tasting notes

Uganda African Moon is a rich, full-bodied cup built around milk chocolate and cocoa, with warming sweetness and a smooth, rounded finish. Expect a gentle red-berry / dried-fruit lift through the middle that keeps it lively, followed by a soft, floral pallet that lingers as it cools—comforting, quietly complex, and beautifully balanced.

Origin

Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda - Agri Evolve is a profit-for-purpose agribusiness based in the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda, specializing in coffee production, processing, and export. Founded in 2016, the company supports smallholder farmers by providing resources, training, and market access, with the goal of improving coffee quality, increasing farmer income, and promoting sustainable agricultural practices. Agri Evolve works with approximately 2,000 farmers across Uganda’s Kasese District and is committed to building a positive social and environmental impact in the region.
Over the years, Agri Evolve have grown their sourcing across the 200km span of the Rwenzoris, having registered 23,885 farmers in their system (as of 2025), and now having their own milling and export facilities.

Variety

SL14, SL18

Process

The Natural process has always been the commonly practiced method for producing coffee in the Rwenzoris. A recurring sight as you travel through the mountains is seeing farmers drying their harvests on tarpaulins at the front of their homes.

Locally, this coffee is called DRUGAR (Dried Uganda Arabica), and though Agri Evolve largely buy fresh cherries from the farmers they work with, there is still a demand driven by farmers to produce this traditional natural coffee which is so rooted in the history of the Rwenzoris.

African Moon then, is a coffee grown and processed by the people of the Rwenzori Mountains, the Mountains of the Moon.

The coffee is off beautiful quality, all full, whole beans, brilliantly roasted. They taste great as espresso, sublime as flat white or iced latte. Lovely.

- Karl P

After being recommend to try Stewarts coffee roast, I bought the Raisin, Chocolate, Peanut espresso beans. I had regular updates from them while my beans were being roasted, packed and dispatched, with tracking available and the whole ordering process was so easy (just like it should be). On to the beans... Lightly roasted (light brown), not dark and shiny like a lot of dark-roasted beans I've tried before... and the smell when I opened the bag was incredible! Definitely the best-smelling coffee I've had. Taste-wise, I tried my usual 2-shot Americano and was very pleased with the smooth, robust taste. You can actually taste the notes described... but I wasn't "blown away" (although it was definitely up there with the best). Then I tried a quad-espresso. Espresso is what these beans are roasted for. A literal taste explosion, not bitter at all, but a delicious, nutty flavour with an overtone of peanut and chocolate and a back note of raisins. A beautiful hit of coffee on the palate. You've got yourself a subscriber.

- Chris Pegg

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