What kind of coffee is there in Sulawesi, Indonesia? Tonaga Toraja Coffee and Carlos kalosi Coffee area

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Indonesian Coffee-Toraja Coffee

Toraja [TORAJA] is a local minority of TANAH TORAJA, which lives in the central plateau of Sulawesi Island [ISLAND SULAWESI] in Indonesia. 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.

Balini grows kalosi Toraja coffee on his own plantation in Tana Toraja, Sulawesi province in southern Indonesia, and bakes it in his own roaster in Shanghai. Their aim is to get consumers to taste fresh coffee beans, not products that have been bumpy on the shelves for months. I have tried balini coffee many times and I am a big fan of them.

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