Introduction of four boutique coffee producing areas in Indonesia. How about Indonesian Tonaga Toraja Coffee?

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Mantenin is the most famous Indonesian coffee. Its strong flavor makes people love and hate. It has herbal and herbal flavors. Its mellow thickness is much higher than that of Africa and Central and South America. It has a low sour taste and some heavy wood or spice flavor. People who like it will fall in love with it as soon as they drink it, and those who hate it will never want to try again!

In fact, the output of Indonesian coffee has always been the highest in Asia, but it was squeezed out by Vietnam (mainly strong beans) in 1999, ranking second in Asia! Although there is a lot of coffee in Indonesia, most of them are coffee beans grown by Robusta, and the proportion of fine coffee is less, which is less than 50% of the total coffee output in Indonesia. Even so, Indonesia's boutique beans are still very famous. Including Mantenin, Golden Mantenin, Lake Tawa, Old Manning, Java Old Brown and so on, are all the reasons that make Indonesia so famous in the boutique world!

Due to the outbreak of serious leaf rust in Java in the 19th century, coffee trees planted in Arabica were almost extinct, so the Dutch changed to Robusta with strong disease resistance in Indonesia, which continues to this day.

Indonesia is made up of countless islands

Indonesian boutique coffee producing areas

Indonesia's boutique coffee producing areas are mainly distributed in northern Sumatra, Sulawesi, Java and other high-altitude places. Sumatra is the main producing area of fine beans, but the coffee system here is very complex. Therefore, the four types in the new version of Coffee Science are briefly described to facilitate your understanding:

The most familiar Mantenin is mainly distributed around Lake Toba in north-central Sumatra, while the most famous is the half-sun or sun-dried beans located in the mountain area of Lindong Mountain (Lingtong) with an elevation of 900 meters on the southwest bank.

Gold manning, after four hand selections, is a notch higher than the average manning.

Lake Tawa coffee refers to washed, semi-washed or sun-dried beans near Lake Tawa in Aceh, northern Sumatra, at an altitude of 800,000m above sea level in the Gayo Moutain Mountains. The coffee beans in this area are valued by everyone.

Old Manning and Java Old Brown.

From these points, it can be seen that only the third point of Tawa Lake coffee is not called Mantenin. This is mainly because the coffee beans in this area of Lake Tawa and Aceh are mainly cultivated in traditional shade. It is very different from the sun-exposed planting in the area of Lindong or Lake Toba, and it is washed and semi-washed, so the coffee beans here are not usually called Mantenin coffee. It will be called Aceh Coffee (Aceh Coffee) or Lake Tawa Coffee! Let's not get mixed up--

To put it simply, the coffee of Lake Toba and Lindong in north-central Sumatra is called Mantenin, while Lake Tawa in the north is more suitable for Aceh, Gaio or Lake Tawa!

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Indonesian coffee grade

Indonesia usually uses 300g of raw beans as the benchmark, calculates the number of defects and then determines the coffee grade. If the defect score is higher, the grade is lower, if the deduction is less than 11 points, it can be divided into the highest level 1 (G1), and then down into 2 or 3 levels.

Toraja with low quantity and high quality

Tonaga is on the island of Sulawesi. Its personality is not as strong as that of Mantenin. It has a smooth and soft fragrance and a distinct sense of hierarchy, with some floral fragrance, which is very different from Mantenin.

Tonaga is a very rare boutique bean with an annual output of about a thousand metric tons, mainly distributed on a slope of about 1200 meters in the middle and southwest of Sulawesi. It is not easy to plant and harvest! As for the treatment part, it is mainly washed with water or semi-washed, so the sour aroma can be brighter than gold manning.

Conclusion

In fact, people's impression of Indonesian coffee is mostly local flavor, herbal flavor and other flavors, often ignoring that Indonesia actually has other very different flavors of coffee. I went to a flavor drink of Indonesian coffee beans before, which was really amazing. The coffee I drank at that time did not have any local flavor or herbal flavor, which completely subverted my established impression of Indonesian coffee!

Therefore, in addition to describing Manning, this article focuses more on coffee, which is different from Manning, in order to make people have more imagination about Indonesia!

Although there are not many mantenin coffee with heavy herbal flavor in this article, if you really love herbal flavor, I recommend you a coffee bean with heavy herbal flavor: Lindong Toba Lake Huangman 20 mesh

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