Coffee of the Month

Tuesday, November 17, 2026 · 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM

Computer Area — 2 Plymouth St., Holbrook, MA

Grab and Go Coffee of the Month

Each month we will sample a coffee from around the world! This month, we have a medium roast coffee from Uganda. It is from Bugisu in the eastern border of the country. Bugisu sits on the lush slops of Mount Elgon - an extinct volcano straddling the Uganda -Kenya border and revered by the Bugisu people as their ancestral homeland. Its rich volcanic soil makes it an ideal landscape for cultivating. While Robusta coffee is indigenous to Uganda's rainforest, Arabica coffee first made its way to Uganda from neighboring Malawi and Ethiopia at the turn of the twentieth century. Early on, Arabia produced low yields and was vulnerable to disease; but Robusta, because of its hardiness and prevalence, quickly became a top cash crop under British colonial rule. To boost the suffering British economy after World War II, mandatory coffee production in Uganda skyrocketed, and to this day coffee remains Uganda's most profitable export. Since the privatization of the industry in the early 1990s, coffee production has gradually shifted to high quality Arabica varietals and sustainable techniques like shade growing and crop diversification are becoming more and more…