Flavor characteristics of Golden Mantenin Coffee in Suzu Island, Indonesia

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Country: Niazi, Indonesia

Producing area: Jiayu, Aceh

Treatment method: semi-washing

1100-1400 meters above sea level

Variety: Arabica

Mantenin, gold of Su Island, Indonesia.

Flavor description: Body thick, high consistency, cream, chocolate

Gold manning has been a very popular product in Taiwan market for many years.

With its unique creamy dried fruit and thick taste, it has always had quite a group of enthusiasts.

The coffee bean-hunting team came to the Jiayu producing area in northern Sumatra to actually visit the producing area.

At the same time, a very large number of cup test samples come from smaller plots in Jiayu producing area.

On the other hand, we also repeatedly test the relationship between the size and flavor of different beans.

Sumatra, Indonesia's main coffee producer, can be roughly divided into three major coffee producing areas:

Jiayou Mountain (Gayo Mountain) in Aceh Province and Lake Duoba (Lake Toba) in Jiangsu Province at the northern end of the island.

That is, Lindong District and Mangkuraja, which is located in the southern province of Bengkulu.

The Jiayu producing area around the scenic Lake Lake Tawar

Abundant annual rainfall with average 2200mm and excellent average altitude

The average falls in the meter, and the volcanic soil that helps to grow coffee.

Coffee planting is usually carried out by independent small farmers in this area.

And use shade trees to plant coffee to improve the quality of coffee.

Different from Lin Dong Mantenin, another producing area of Indonesian boutique coffee.

The coffee in Jiayu producing area has the characteristic of calmness and introversion.

It usually has a very thick taste and rich flavor of chocolate dried fruit.

After repeated cup tests many times,

Especially strict selection of small farmers from Jiayu producing area

In addition to the highest G1 level, the process of manual selection (Triple-Picked) is performed three times.

That is to say, there is a relatively low proportion of defective beans in addition to excellent flavor performance.

The recommended brewing parameters of Qianjie coffee are hand-made, V60 filter cup.

Degree of grinding: 4 (Fuji R440)

Water temperature: 88 °C

Normal pressure, recommended 4.5 degree of grinding / water temperature 90 °C

Philharmonic pressure, recommended 4 grinding degrees, water temperature 86 °C

Siphon: 4 degree of grinding, water temperature