Introduction of Mantenin's taste and flavor introduction to the characteristics of the producing area of Mantenin is the quality of Mantenin good?

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Indonesia introduced Arabica coffee during Dutch rule in the 18th century. Mantenin, known as the 'most important coffee in the world', is the fourth largest producer in the world with an annual output of 7 million bags, of which Arabica accounts for only 10-15%. The main producing areas are in Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi. Coffee in Sumatra, known as Mantenin, is mainly produced in Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi. The coffee in Sumatra is called Mantenin, which is neither a coffee breed nor a producing area.

In fact, it is the name of a local race. Lindong is a small town near Lake Toba, which is the largest volcanic lake in the world. The hinterland is very large, so the quality of coffee varies greatly from the north to the east. And this is Mantenin, the highest grade coffee in the Lindong producing area. This area is flat at an altitude of about 1300-1600 meters, and the soil fertility is moderately rich in organic matter. Most coffee trees are shaded and planted. Traditionally, shade trees can maintain moisture and increase soil fertility. Most coffee women carry out weeding and fertilization with their bare hands, and coffee cherries are harvested and removed artificially when they turn red and mature. Wet pods are placed in a plastic bag for 10-12 hours to ferment, and then pectin, floats and shells are removed manually, rarely using a machine. Unlike Central and South America, Indonesian coffee beans have a unique semi-aqueous method, called Giling Basah treatment (the same as Wet Hulled Process). Coffee beans treated with Giling Basah have low acidity and thick Body.

Coffee farmers remove the pulp by hand, a few use machines to remove the pulp, and then sell coffee beans directly in the local village bazaar or send them to nearby concentration stations when the coffee beans are still very wet. Batak in Indonesia belongs to matrilineal society. Usually in the village market, women bring crops to do business, and their prices are very hard, so the prices of these coffee beans, which only deal with half of them in the domestic market, are very high. Even higher than coffee in Latin America and Africa, Indonesia has developed a unique shelling machine that can handle sheepskin beans with only 18% humidity, which turns the beans into a unique blue / green similar to the most strictly selected boutique beans. The export classification of high-quality Indonesian Arabica beans is manually screened, and these people are guaranteed by the government minimum wage and can earn higher bonuses based on performance.