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Indonesia has more than 17000 islands, large and small, scattered like emeralds on the earth's equator from west to east. Her brilliance and charm is hard to tell in a few words.

Indonesians never use filter cloth filter paper filter cups to make coffee. A mouthful of coffee, the mouth will be mixed with a little coffee grounds, they said that the taste of coffee should also be carefully chewed, such as life.

● I, Manning Coffee

When it comes to Indonesian coffee, we have to start with Mantenin in Sumatra.

MANDHELING coffee is the most representative coffee bean in Indonesia, and anyone who likes to drink coffee knows it. Mantenin is actually an ethnic minority living in the northern plateau of Sumatra [SUMATERA ISLAND]. The origin of the name Manning Coffee is related to the history of Japanese aggression. During the Japanese occupation of Indonesia during World War II, a Japanese soldier drank mellow coffee in a cafe, so he asked the owner the name of the coffee. The boss mistakenly thought he was asking where you were from, so he replied: Manning. When the Japanese soldiers returned home after the war, they recalled the "Manning" they had drunk in Indonesia. So the consignee shipped 15 tons from Indonesia to Japan, which was very popular. Manning's name spread like this.

Mantenin's main producing areas are in Sumatra [SUMATERAISLAND], while high-quality Mantenin is concentrated in the plateau around Lake DANAU TOBA in North Sumatra and the Gayo Heights in Lake Dawa [DANAU TAWAR] in ACEH Province [GAYO]. The names of coffee bean producing areas that are often mentioned, such as Lindong [LINTONGNIHUTA] in the Lake dopa region, [SIDIKALANG] in Shidi Garan, [DOLOKSANGGUL] in the Dole Upper Valley, and Tago Bank in the Gayu region [TAKENGON].

The ancient kingdom of Sanfo Qi or the death of Sri Buddha [SRIVIJAYA] mentioned in the history books is located in the giant harbor in the northeast of Sumatra [PALEMBANG]. In the battle with MAJAPAHIT, which rose in Java in the later period, Sanfoqi was defeated and relocated to Zhanbei [JAMBI], and was finally destroyed by Manchu Boyi.

ACEH, also known as Yumqi, the Islamic kingdom that ruled northern Sumatra and parts of the Malay Peninsula from the early 16th century to the early 20th century, is the trade center of the Malay archipelago. The capital, Kodaracha (now Banda Aceh [BANDAR ACEH]), was built by the Aceh people, hence the name. It reached its peak in the early 17th century. It was within reach of all the west coast of Sumatra and conquered many parts of the Malay Peninsula. After the decline. Portugal and the Netherlands invaded and actively resisted colonial aggression. It was destroyed by the Netherlands in 1873.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, with a little-known history. Mr. Yu Dafu, a great writer in the period of the Republic of China, actively promoted the War of Resistance against Japan during the Anti-Japanese War. In 1940, he went into exile in Singapore with a group of progressive literati who advocated the War of Resistance against Japan, and organized the "Xingzhou overseas Chinese Volunteer Army" to resist Japan. The Pacific War broke out in 1941, and Singapore fell at the end of 1941. So they moved to BUKITTINGGI on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and finally settled in Bayeh's official business [BAYAKUMBUH]. Yu Dafu and several anti-Japanese fighters in exile hid their names here and set up a brewery to make a living. Yu Dafu, under the pseudonym of Zhao Lian, married and had children here (his wife was the third he Liyou, a local Chinese), waiting for the situation to change. In early 1942, Japan invaded Indonesia, when the colonial ruler of Indonesia, the Dutch, surrendered. Yu Dafu studied in Japan in his early years and was proficient in Japanese. The Japanese gendarmerie of Wuji Dingyi learned that there was a local Chinese who could speak Japanese, so he found Yu Dafu and urged him to act as an interpreter. Yu Dafu acted as an interpreter of the Japanese army, which caused a lot of misunderstanding and dissatisfaction among the local people. But in fact, during his tenure, Yu Dafu took advantage of his position to secretly help and protect a large number of exiled friends, patriotic overseas Chinese leaders and local residents. In 1945, Yu Dafu's true identity was discovered by the Japanese army. A few days after Japan surrendered, Yu Dafu was suddenly summoned by the Japanese gendarmerie. Since then, he mysteriously disappeared, and the reason for his disappearance remains a mystery. After research and textual research, Japanese scholar Masao Suzuki came to the conclusion that Yu Dafu was killed by the Japanese gendarmerie.

Medan, the capital of North Sumatra, is the main distribution center for Sumatran coffee, while another is the port city of Lampung [BANDAR LAMPUNG] in southeastern Sumatra. Although the distance to the producing area of Lake dopa is only more than 200 kilometers, it takes 5-6 hours to drive from Medan because there is no highway. Shidi Garan, Dole Upper Valley and Lin Dong are all in the adjacent area. The Jiayu producing area of Aceh Province is more than 300 kilometers from Banda Aceh [BANDAR ACEH], the capital of Aceh Province, which takes 6-7 hours by car, and more than 400 kilometers away from Medan, which takes more than 10 hours to drive.

Manning coffee is considered to be the most mellow and fragrant coffee in the world. When tasting Mantenin, you can feel obvious lubrication on the tip of the tongue, it also has a low acidity, but this acidity can also be clearly tasted, the leaping slight acid mixed with the richest aroma and a long aftertaste, so that you can easily experience the lively factor in the mild fragrance. In addition, Manning coffee has a faint earthy aroma, and some people describe it as the aroma of herbs.

● Indonesian Coffee specially recommends:

1. Manning G1 [MANDHELINGG1]

Manning G1 is a first-class coffee bean selected by hand for three times. Mantenin flavor is very rich, sweet, pure bitter, mellow, with a little sweet and slightly sour, with a long aftertaste and aftertaste. In general, coffee lovers mostly drink on their own.

two。 Manning round bean [MANDHELING PEABERRY]

Round beans are also commonly known as male beans. Usually we see one side of the coffee bean is flat, there is a crack in it, which is the side of the two seeds in the coffee cherry fruit. This kind of normal bean is called flat bean, or lentil [FLAT BEANS]. While some cherry fruits contain only one seed, this kind of bean is called PEABERRY. Each coffee tree bears coffee cherry fruit, only about 5-10% round beans, round beans are from the mixed coffee beans, picked out artificially, its precious degree is not to mention. In addition, because round bean coffee contains the nutrients of two normal flat beans, the taste is richer than ordinary flat beans.

Mantenin round bean flavor is dense, the flavor of Chinese herbal medicine and brown sugar is very obvious, the aroma is strong and persistent, the taste is thick, the bitterness is relatively downward, and the taste is long.

3. Changdou [LONG BERRY TAKENGON]

Step on the shore long beans, also known as horse face Mantenin, or long Mantenin. This bean species is a variety of Tibika [TYPICA] with very little yield. it is a small-scale plantation above 1600 meters above sea level in Tago Bank, Jiayu region, Aceh Province.

Horse face raw beans smell a touch of sweetness, beans look long and full, very beautiful. Fresh ripe beans are powdered with dried aromas of candied fruit and black plum. The taste of the coffee is smooth and round, with a good sense of balance and a medium to upper mellow thickness. At the end, you can feel a hint of hazelnut and caramel, with some fruity aromas of plums.

4. Aged Mantenin [AGED MANDHELING]

Aged beans are generally stored in a place of origin with good storage conditions and stored in a constant temperature warehouse so that they can retain the best part of the coffee after harvest. In order to ensure the quality, the farm owner must also turn over the bags from time to time so that each raw bean can be evenly exposed to air and water. In addition, storage conditions aside, the real aged beans must also be covered with endocarp (Parchment). If the endocarp is removed at this time, the raw beans will be prone to deterioration due to loss of protection, especially in Sumatra, where humid air and rich sunlight are easy to make raw beans deteriorate. Generally, the treatment time of aged Mantenin varies from 3 to 5 years, while after aging, the acidity of coffee beans becomes weaker, the thickness of alcohol becomes higher, and the overall texture is fuller, which is completely different from the fresh, lively and bright taste of fresh beans.

5. Wild Kopi Luwak [WILD LUWAK MANDHELING]

Luwak, a wild musk cat, likes to choose the most ripe, sweet, juicy coffee fruit in the coffee tree as food. The coffee fruit passes through its digestive system, and only the pulp on the outside of the fruit is digested, and the hard coffee beans are then excreted intact by the civet's digestive system. This digestion process, so that coffee beans have an unparalleled magical change, the flavor tends to be unique, the taste is particularly mellow, rich and round sweet taste is also unmatched by other coffee beans. This is because Luwak's digestive system destroys the protein in the coffee beans, making the coffee much less bitter due to the protein, but adding to the round taste of the coffee beans. Because wild Luwak is obviously better at selecting good coffee fruits, which makes this kind of coffee have outstanding characteristics. Wild cat poop coffee beans produce very little, so please note that the key word is [wild].

6. Manning Treasure [MANDHELING JUMBO]

This treasure bean is in the Mantenin G1, and then carefully selected large (more than 19 mesh) super Mantenin coffee beans, is the best in Mantenin, the flavor is more mellow, long-lasting, almost zero defects.

It should be noted that Manning gems are mostly bought by Japanese bean merchants at a high price and rarely enter the Chinese mainland market. The Indonesian beans pursued by the Japanese also include Mantenin long beans (horse face), Mantenin round beans, and Toraja coffee beans (introduced at the end of the article).

● II. Java coffee

Before the Japanese discovered JAVA,JAWA coffee, Java coffee [Java] was the only label for Indonesian coffee.

As the name implies, Java coffee is produced in JAVALSLAND, and the main producing area of Java coffee is in West Java. Coffee was first grown in Indonesia in the east of JATINEGARA, now in the [PONDOK KOPI] area of eastern Jakarta, which literally translates as a coffee shop. Coffee trees were transplanted here by Dutch colonists as early as the mid-17th century, and then slowly developed and planted in other parts of West Java. For example, Bogor [BOGOR], Sujia Wumei [SUKABUMI], Wandeng [BANTEN], East Java [JAWA TIMUR] and other places, so that later developed to grow to Sumatra, Sulawesi [SULAWESI], Bali [BALI] and other islands. To put it simply, Java grew coffee more than 200 years earlier than Sumatra.

At that time, Java coffee sold to Europe was a very special kind of coffee. At that time, it was shipped to Europe and the United States by sailboat, and the distance was long and the speed was slow, so it took a lot of time to transport. In this case, the coffee seems to have undergone a special fermentation and has a very unique taste. Later, when the ship replaced the sailboat, due to the shortened delivery time, people drank relatively fresh coffee beans. But people who are used to drinking Chen beans are not used to the fresh taste, so they desperately pursue old Java coffee, so that the Indonesian government and some businessmen deliberately store fresh beans in warehouses for one or two years and then sell them to consumers. In fact, compared with fresh beans, the acidity of aged Java beans is close to zero, but the flavor is more intense.

Today, the large coffee plantations in Java are mainly concentrated in the Yijian [IJEN] plateau, which is more than 200 kilometers from the eastern city of Surabaya [SURABAYA].

● III. Toraja Coffee

Toraja [TORAJA] is a local minority of TANAH TORAJA, which lives in the central plateau of Sulawesi [ISLAND SULAWESI]. Sulawesi was formerly known as Celebes [CELEBES]. The Toraja nationality is a very distinctive ethnic group, and they have maintained many primitive customs so far. Boathouses, hanging coffins, they are said to be descendants of an invading people who assimilated or destroyed the aborigines when they ruled the island. Later, they were driven away by Muslim Indonesians, such as the Phuket [BUGIS], and left the coast to settle in the highlands and mountains. They were tough and belligerent, and in order to avoid the invasion of other ethnic groups, they built their villages on high ground that was easy to defend.

Because it is located on a plateau with extremely inconvenient transportation, most of the Toraja coffee beans are harvested by farmers, using the traditional Indonesian wet planing method, using a simple fruit peeling machine to remove the cherry pulp, and the coffee beans are soaked in a water basin and fermented in plastic bags, and then the so-called parchment is dried. After drying (water content between 11-13%), it is transported from the mountainous area to KALOSI at the foot of the mountain, where it is sold to intermediaries or processing plants for subsequent processing and refinement, so the Kalosi area has become an important coffee distribution center. This is why some people call Toraja Coffee Kalosi Coffee.

Because it is located in the plateau and mountainous area, the infrastructure construction is extremely backward, and the traffic is very inconvenient. As a result, the production of Toraja coffee beans is not high, and Japanese bean merchants who have been stationed locally for a long time have scraped most of the high-quality Toraja coffee beans. Because of this, high-quality Toraja coffee has little chance to enter the Chinese mainland market.

In addition to the visible dark green, Toraja raw beans show low acidity, thick taste, soft and long fruit flavor, highlighting the uniqueness of Sulawesi Toraja coffee, which is different from Sumatra Manning. Mild acidity with some ripe grape flavor, clean but solid taste, the latter part of the caramel sweetness, lingering in the mouth.

● IV, Papua Coffee

Papua [PAPUA ISLAND], also known as Ilyan [IRIAN ISLAND], is located in the easternmost part of Indonesia. The central part of the island is bounded by a straight line, with Indonesia to the west and the independent Republic of Papua New Guinea to the east.

Papua has fertile land and rich products, so it has always been the fat meat contested by the western colonial powers. The division and rule drawn in the middle of the island is precisely the result of the competition between the Western powers back and forth since the 17th century, and finally sat down to agree to divide the meat. The detailed history is complex and bloody. For those who are interested in studying deeply, you can check the relevant historical materials on the Internet. I will not repeat them here.

Most of Papua is covered by dense virgin forests and is extremely rich in mineral resources. In terms of average area, New Guinea has the largest number of bird species in the world. The forests of Papua are home to a variety of rare wild animals and many precious plants unique in the world. Although the province has a population of only more than 2 million, it has a large number of ethnic groups. There are more than 250 identified ethnic groups in the province, most of which are primitive tribes living in the jungle.

The climate of Papua is warm and rainy. However, due to the influence of the monsoon, northwesterly winds prevail in April and trade winds are under the control of southeast trade winds in August. In the low and flat coastal areas, the monthly average temperature changes little throughout the year, but there is still glacier snow in the alpine areas. The annual precipitation is about 1000 murmur2000 mm along the southern coast, 2500 murmur3000 mm along the northern coast, and 3000 Murray 4000 mm in the central mountains. Affected by high temperature and heavy rain, the soil is easy to erosion, exuberant leaching and low fertility. Only intermountain basins with thicker sedimentary soil and fertile volcanic soil areas are suitable for agricultural development. With the influence of regional differences in climate and height changes, the vertical distribution of vegetation is very obvious: the coastal low-level areas below 1000 meters above sea level are dominated by tropical rain forests, with a wide variety of plants, dense forests and evergreen seasons, among which climbing plants are especially luxuriant. There are cold temperate plants such as ferns, alpine meadows and even moss lichens in alpine areas above 3500 meters. More than 4400 meters is a permanent snow belt. There are different species of wild animals according to the regional differences in climate and plant distribution.

Papuan coffee is grown mostly in the plateau of 1300-1800 meters above sea level in the middle of the island. Its flavor is characterized by full grains, varied taste, pleasant acidity and fruit-like sweetness. Papuan coffee beans and Mantenin beans have the same mellow and full-bodied taste, the difference is that coffee tastes much cleaner than Manning beans, sweet taste is also sweet, different from Manning syrup flavor, more similar to American beans of cocoa and chocolate flavor.

● V, Flores Coffee

Flores [FLORES] Island, located in the southeast of Bali [BALI ISLAND], belongs to East Nusa Tenggara Province [EAST NUSATENGGARA].

The territory is mountainous, especially in the west. Among them, Manda Savu [POCOMANDASAWU], 2400 meters above sea level; there are some active volcanoes in the central and eastern regions. Nearby Mount Clemutu [Mt. KELIMUTU], that is, the mountain of the tricolor lake. There is little development in the mainland, the rivers are not navigable, and most of the vegetation is tropical deciduous forests and savannas. The western end of the island used to be the habitat of Komodo dragons, a large lizard. The aborigines of the area [FLORES] are mainly of mixed Malay and Papuan race. Along the coast there are Bima [BIMANESE], Sumba [SUMBANESE], Sumba [SUMBAWANESE], Buji [BUGIS], Wangkaxi [MAKASSAR], Solor [SOLORESE], Minangabau [MINANGKABAU], as well as Javanese [JAWANESE] and very few Chinese. Most people still believe in traditional spiritualistic religions, with Muslims and Christians in coastal areas. The land is generally owned by the tribe, and the leader has great power. Flores agriculture is dominated by crop rotation, and the main crops are rice, coconut and coffee.

Flores planted coffee relatively late, mostly [TIM-TIM] trees, a natural hybrid between Arabica coffee and Robusta coffee. This variety was discovered in Timor [TIMOR] in the 1940s and cultivated because of its natural disease resistance. Today, this variety has been widely grown in Sumatra, and it is inappropriate to describe it as pomelo and trifoliate orange, because the same tree species, planted in different places, show different flavors and sweetness.

This coffee bean has an obvious earthy smell and a slightly less clean taste, but it is mellow, which is very similar to most Mantenin, with good sweetness. there is a dignified caramel flavor in the aftertaste, which becomes more and more obvious and clearly recognizable as the temperature decreases.

In this article, we did not mention Kalimantan [KALIMANTAN], Bali [BALIISLAND], East Timor [TIMOR ESTATE]. Among them, East Timor is already an independent country, so if there is a chance in the future, we will introduce it in another article.

● Indonesian coffee bean brand recommendation

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