What are the amazing flavors and characteristics of Indonesian Sulawesi Tonaga coffee? Wet planing Fassu

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What are the amazing flavors and characteristics of Indonesian Sulawesi Tonaga coffee? Is the wet plane Farrawesi coffee good?

It is said that more than 300 years ago, in the great navigation era when colonialism prevailed, from the time when the Dutch spilled the first coffee seed on the land of Indonesia, it sprouted and spread its branches and leaves. Indonesia's coffee production has firmly ranked among the top five coffee exporters in the world. Due to the characteristics of many islands in the country, the identification boundary of coffee beans is also known as the island. There are Mantenin in Sumatra, Tonaga in Sulawesi, and even Java coffee named directly after Java.

Sulawesi Island, shaped like an inverted spoon, has a high mountain in the middle and is thousands of miles away.

On the island of Sulawesi under Indonesia's jurisdiction, the equatorial line crosses the northern peninsula and covers an area of 170,000 square kilometers, which is about the size of Taiwan, while the Tana Toraja plateau is located in the middle of the island, with steep mountains and thousand Michael peaks everywhere. It also belongs to volcanic geological soil, which is a suitable geographical condition for growing coffee.

The reason why a large proportion of Toraja coffee beans do not have a specific estate name like the boutique coffee beans in other places is that farmers have to transport the harvested coffee beans from the mountainous areas to the east to Sapan and west to Minanga or Kalosi, where they are sold to intermediaries or processing plants for subsequent processing and refinement, so these two areas have become important coffee distribution centers.

Celebes / fully washed Sulawesi (the old version of Celebes biz/) is a large island in eastern Indonesia. Sulawesi Island is the 11th largest island in the world by area, with a total area of 174600 square kilometers. It is located in eastern Indonesia and the southern Philippines. It has a very special shape, similar to a big K letter. There are four peninsulas in the middle of the island. The middle of the island is a precipitous mountain area, so there is little communication between the four peninsulas, and it is more convenient to connect by sea than by land. The administrative region of Sulawesi is divided into six provinces: West Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi and Gundalo. The largest city is Wangkasek in the southwest, and Manado in the north is also a larger city. Compared with other Indonesian islands, 95% of the coffee trees on Sulawesi are Arabica, and the well-made coffee has the smell of grapefruit, berries, nuts and spices. On the other hand, it tastes fragrant and delicious, low acidity and thick. Sulawesi coffee production accounts for about 2% of Indonesia, and the varieties are old typeica, S795 and Jember-related varieties. Wet plucking is a traditional post-processing method, which will make raw coffee beans show the unique dark green of traditional Indonesian beans. However, many producers have switched to the Central American washing method, which helps to increase production and quality. The main producing areas are Mamasa, Tana Toraja, Gowa and Sinjal and Enrekang, among which Toraja is widely known.

In the post-processing stage, the alpine high-quality Tonaga coffee purchased by these two distribution centers, which is different from the commonly heard water washing or sun treatment, adopts the traditional wet stripping method known locally as "Giling Basah". In addition to the dark green visible in the appearance of raw beans, it shows low acidity, thick taste and soft and deep fruit flavor. It highlights what distinguishes Sulawesi Tonaga from Sumatra Mantenin.

Flavor: mild acidity with some ripe grapes, clean but solid taste, caramel sweetness in the back, lingering in the mouth.

Sulawesi is completely different from almost all other Indonesian beans.

Indonesian coffee, mainly in Sumatra, uses traditional wet planing to treat beans, while Toraga in Sulawesi is washed with water.

The vast majority of Indonesian beans in other places are Robusta, Ateng and Catimor, while Toraga grows Tibica or Tibica hybrids.

Sulawesi is so special for historical, geographical and cultural reasons, but the Japanese discovered the uniqueness of Sulawesi a long time ago. It was put into operation before World War II and created the world-famous Sulawesi coffee. Japan withdrew from Indonesia after its defeat, and Sulawesi coffee also disappeared from the world market.

In 1976, a joint venture between Japan and Indonesia established the Toarco Coffee Company in Sulawesi, introducing a Central and South American-style washing method to encourage local farmers to continue to grow Tibica. Over the past 40 years, everyone finally drank the unique Sulawesi again, with no soil flavor, no grass flavor, clean water to wash beans, on the contrary to the mainstream Mantenin. But the main consumers were still Japanese, until four or five years ago, three famous boutique coffee shops in the United States also began to launch Sulawesi, which was regarded as "the revival of Indonesian coffee."

Sulawesi Toraja ·Sapan-Minanga, Indonesia

Coffee producing areas: Indonesia / Sulawesi / Tonaga Plateau / Sapan-Minanga region

Planting altitude: 1300 Murray 2000 meters

Raw bean variety: Djember (SMUE 795)

Raw bean treatment: Wet-Hulled (local traditional wet peeling method)

Quality grading: .6 d/300gr, 17-18 screen