Boutique Coffee-Sumatra Manning (Sumatra Mandheling)

Mantenin coffee beans have a strong aroma and low acidity, with a hint of herbs and earth.

The Dutch introduced Arabica seedlings to Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) and Indonesia for the first time in the 17th century. In 1877, a large-scale coffee rust hit the Indonesian islands, destroying almost all coffee trees. People had to give up Arabica, which had been in operation for many years, and introduced Robsta coffee trees with strong disease resistance from Africa. Indonesia today is a big coffee producer, with robusta species accounting for 90% of the total output. Indonesian coffee is mainly produced in Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi, all of which belong to volcanic topography. Sumatra Manning is the only Arabica species that grows mainly on hillsides between 750m and 1500 m above sea level. Mantenin coffee beans have a strong aroma and low acidity, with a hint of herbs and earth. Mantenin coffee beans have large particles and hard beans, and they are prone to defects in the process of planting and processing. After harvest, they are usually subject to strict manual selection. If the control process is not strict enough, it is easy to cause a mixture of good and bad. Therefore, it has become a controversial single product.

The Origin of Manning's name

Mantenin is not the name of the producing area, the place name, the port name, nor the coffee variety name. In fact, it is the phonetic error of the mandheling people in Mandaining, Indonesia. 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: Mandaining. After the war, the Japanese soldiers recalled the "manning" they had drunk in Indonesia. As a result, the coffee merchant shipped 15 tons to Japan, which was very popular. That's how Manning's name got out.

Lin Dong Lintong and Manning Mandheling

The best of the traditional Arabica coffee produced in northern Sumatra is sold as Lindong Lintong and Manning Mandheling. To be exact, Lindong refers to the coffee that grows in a small area southwest of Lake Toba in Lindong District. Lindong coffee is not planted in shade and does not use chemicals. Manning is a broader term that includes Lindong coffee and coffee grown in the northern part of Lake Diari and Lake Toba under similar conditions.

Gold manning, collection manning

Golden Mantenin: the granules of Mantenin coffee beans are larger and the beans are hard, and it is easy to have defects in the production process, resulting in uneven quality. For this reason, producers adopt stricter quality control, and after four times of manual picking of beans, they eliminate defective beans to produce golden mantenin with dark green color, uniform bean appearance and stable quality.

Manning Agedmandheling: it is called "classic" because raw coffee beans need to be stored in the cellar for three years before they are produced. The successful collection beans grind off Manning's inelegant sour taste, and the sour ingredients are ripe and converted into sugar, making the coffee more round and sweeter.