What are the Sumatran coffee producing areas? what are the characteristics of Sumatran coffee in different producing areas?

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Sumatra, Sumatra province:

The best coffee in Sumatra comes from two places: in Aceh, north of Sumatra, near Lake Tawar and the mountains that surround Lake Toba further south. Due to many sharecropper producers and the use of their unique semi-washing treatment and lack of iron in the soil, coffee beans in this area have a special blue color at the stage of fresh beans.

* Mandheling:

It refers to the most famous half-sun beans or sun beans around Lake Lake Toba in north-central Sumatra and the Lindong Mountains (Lintong) at an altitude of 900-1200 meters above sea level on the southwest coast. Batak is the backbone of coffee farmers in this area and was once known as the most full-grained coffee beans in the world. Mantenin is a trademark used to produce coffee from Arabica coffee in North Sumatra and Mantenin Mandailing coffee from the Tapanuli area of northwest Sumatra. It has the unique fragrance of herbs and trees.

* Lindong area (Lintong):

Lin Dong Manning, 1200 to 1500 meters above sea level, comes from the most famous coffee in Lake Toba on the island of North Sumatra. A correct understanding of Golden Manning Coffee is not golden manning in color or golden manning.

Gold Manning is produced in the Lintong (Lindong) region of northern Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia. The harvest operation is limited to picking ripe fruit from a single fruit by hand to ensure the quality of its preliminary selection of beans. Coffee cherries are processed by SEMI-WASHED semi-washing, dried in the natural sun, shelled and then processed through another drying and refining process, two times of raw bean cleaning and four times of Hand-Pick manual selection. Therefore, it can be said that it is a strict selection of top Manning coffee. Huang Jinman marked "PWN" is the abbreviation of Indonesia's Pawani company, whose gold Manning coffee has been registered in Indonesia.

* Lake Lake Toba, located in the central part of North Sumatra, was moved northward by Dutch colonists in 1888 to Lake dopa. The area between Lintong and Lake dopa (Toba lake) in Lindong, South Sumatra can be called mantenin, which is produced in the mountains around Lake dopa (Lake Toba), which is located in the north of Medan, the capital of Sumatra. It belongs to alpine freshwater lakes. The average height is about 900 meters above sea level. Mantenin usually refers to Tibica or its variants of coffee beans grown in the mountains around Lake Toba. The lake is diamond-shaped, 100km long and 30km wide, covering an area of 1130 square kilometers, with an average elevation of about 900m. It is also the largest volcanic lake in the world.

* Lake Tawa, located in the middle of the Aceh Special Administrative region. Located in the northern tip of Sumatra, North Sumatra produces mostly Gayo. Lake Tawa, which is dominated by ateng, can be called Aceh Coffee or Lake Tawa (Tawar lake) coffee. The area is less than 1/10 of Lake dopa. However, the quality and output of coffee have surpassed that of Lake dopa in recent years.

Mount Aceh (Gayo):

Aceh (Aceh), 1110 to 1300 meters above sea level, in the northernmost corner of Sumatra. In Aceh province, north of Sumatra, Gayo coffee is grown on slopes around the town of Takegon and Lake Tawar. The average height in the production area is between 1110 and 1300 meters, and the coffee is planted by shade farmers under shade trees. the wet-processed coffee is cleaner, but usually not as good as Sumatran coffee. The coffee processed by traditional technology is similar to the coffee in Mantenin, Sumatra, with the advantages of peculiar flavor and low and lively viscosity.

Aceh has a long history of political instability, so it is not an area that most people will visit. Gayo people are people with a firm personality and hard work, and nearly 20% of coffee processors are women.

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