The Mystery of Sumatra Coffee Varieties The Real Reason for Price Differences in Sumatra Coffee Beans

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Iron pickup mutant? Sumatra Coffee Bean-the riddle of Manning Coffee varieties

The main producing areas of Indonesian coffee are Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi, of which "Manning" from Sumatra is the most famous.

Lintong is also known as Sumatran Coffee, Lake Tawa at the north end can be called Aceh Coffee or Lake Tawa Coffee, and the area between Lindong Coffee and Lake Toba can be called Manning.

Mantenin has a strong taste, with a strong mellow and rich and lively sense of movement, neither astringent nor sour, mellow and bitter can be fully revealed. The appearance of Mantenin coffee beans is arguably the ugliest, but coffee fans say that the worse the Sumatran coffee beans are, the better, mellow and slippery they are.

Four kinds of Manning were collected, which are:

Golden Manning Gold Mandheling

SumatraIsland, Mandehling Longberry, Timtim Belangele (timtim Mantenin)

Lin Dong Manning G1 Lintong Mandheling Grade-1

Emerald Manning (Aceh, Aceh province, Sumatra)

Image above: gold manning Gold Mandheling raw beans

Image above: horse Manning full-sun raw beans, which are crossed between Arabica and Robusta, called Timor and timtim in Indonesia.

TimTim--

Timor Hybrid, which translates to East Timor hybrid, that is, the hybrid of Arabica and Robusta. The familiar Catimor is hybridized with it again.

Tim Tim---- horse face Manning longberry

Tim Tim is a bean from Indonesia. Because of its long shape, many people call it Ma Mian Dou, and some people call it long Manning. In fact, tim tim is not a purebred bean, but a natural cross between Arabica coffee and Robusta coffee, which was discovered on the island of timor in the 1940s and cultivated for its natural disease resistance. In America this variety is called Hybrido de Timor, or Tim Tim for short, and in Indonesia it is also called Bor Bor.

Image above: Lin Dong Manning G1, although the grade is Grade-1, it is still difficult to change the characteristics of high defect rate of Indonesian beans, about 8% of defective beans.

Image above: Emerald Manning (Aceh, Aceh, Sumatra), 19 mesh +, raw beans are green and full, glittering and translucent, like an emerald

Sumatra coffee bean brand recommendation

The Sumatran Mantenin coffee beans baked on Qianjie Coffee are fully guaranteed in terms of brand and quality. And more importantly, the performance-to-price ratio is extremely high, a pack of 227 grams, the price is only 89 yuan. According to the calculation of 15 grams of powder per cup of coffee, 15 cups of coffee can be made in a bag, which costs only about 6 yuan per cup, which is recommended by conscience compared to the price sold in cafes for dozens of yuan a cup.