What's the flavor of Manning coffee? Characteristics of Mandenin Coffee in Sumatra, Indonesia

For friends who don't like sour taste, the front street barista usually introduces several bitter single coffee, such as Brazilian Queen Manor, Indonesian Mantenin, Jamaica Blue Mountain, etc. If you want to be clear and sweet, choose Brazil, choose Blue Mountain if you want to balance and round, and choose Mantenin if you want thick alcohol.

Asia represents Indonesia Mantenin "player" can be said to be the "old-timer" in bitter single coffee. Before Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee became famous, Indonesian mantinin was the representative of good coffee among the older coffee population. The low acid and strong taste with herbal fragrance became the classic flavor of that era.

Usually we drink mantnings with a deep roast, which reduces the acidity of the coffee and highlights its rich bitterness. The Front Street menu features two Mantnings: Linton Mantnings Ration Bean and Pwn Gold Mantnings, both medium-dark roasts, and Front Street hopes to present black, caramel flavors while retaining the wild herbal flavor of Mantnings. This unique fragrance is derived from the environment in which mantning is grown and the way it is handled.

Mantenin is grown on the mysterious Indonesian island of Sumatra, which is divided into eight provinces, of which only Aceh and Subei, which are located at high altitudes, grow Arabica coffee on a large scale. Sumatra is a tropical rain forest area, the mountains are often filled with clouds and rain, for Sumatra cast a layer of mystery. Locals grow coffee trees around two large volcanic lakes, Lake Tawar and Lake Toba. The Gayo Mountains around Lake Tawar offer ideal coffee growing conditions, with extensive organic coffee cultivation and a long history of cultivation, resulting in higher coffee quality and yield. Many green coffee merchants also value it more, including the local famous Pwani Coffee Company (PWN).

PWN mainly purchases high-quality Mantning coffee beans. After purchasing, after one machine selection + three manual selections, full and flawless beans are selected. The coffee beans produced are all fine grade."Golden Mantning Coffee" is their top brand product. In the early days, PWN had registered the English Trademark Registering of "Golden Mantelin" in order to become the exclusive supplier of Golden Mantelin Coffee, which means that only the Golden Mantelin Coffee produced by his family is the real Yellow Man. The Gold Mandnin coffee beans in Front Street are of course "genuine products" purchased by PWN Company, using Indonesia's unique wet planing method.

Unlike African countries, which can dry green beans in long hours of hot sunlight, and Central and South American countries, Indonesia's wet planing method is a treatment that has to be used to adapt to the local island type tropical rain forest climate. The island is wet and hot all the year round, and typhoon blowing is also a "common occurrence". In such an unstable environment, coffee farmers can only shorten the drying time so that coffee beans do not rot in the humid air.

The wet planing method is to first remove the peel and pulp of the coffee fruit, dry it after a short fermentation, remove the sheepskin layer in the semi-dry state of the beans, and continue to dry the latter stage until the moisture content drops to 12%. Since each link is completed in a humidity environment of 70~90%, and the sheepskin layer has been removed before the final drying step, the "naked" raw beans easily absorb moisture from the air, so the coffee produced has more woody, herbal, and spicy smoky aromas. Linton mantning coffee is also wet planing method, after roasting, the acidity is reduced, the mellow degree is increased, and the vegetal flavor and spice flavor are still retained, with the unique flavor tone of Indonesian mantning coffee. So Qianjie also added it to the ration bean series, launched in the form of 25 yuan/100 grams of small packaging, so that everyone can also taste the taste of Southeast Asian coffee.

I believe some friends have begun to wonder how the taste of Southeast Asia is. The two coffees are brewed separately in the front street below as a reference. Curious babies can try them at home.

Considering that mantning coffee is medium dark roast, coffee beans expand more than medium light roast, and the internal gas is richer. Freshly roasted mantning coffee takes 7 to 10 days to exhaust and grow beans before it enters the peak taste period of coffee. Since the coffee beans delivered from the front street are freshly roasted within 5 days, we can let them stand for a few days before brewing, which is more conducive to extraction.

The medium-depth roasting of coffee beans greatly changes the internal structure of the beans, becoming loose and more absorbent when ground into coffee powder. If you don't adjust the brewing parameters, coffee will easily over-extract bitterness. If you want coffee to have enough aroma but not extract, you need to reduce the extraction rate. Qianjie will use a lower water temperature and a coarser grinding degree to reduce the release of bitter macromolecules in coffee.

Filter cup: KONO

Water temperature: 87 degrees Celsius

Powder: 15g

Powder water ratio: 1:15

Grinding degree: China standard No. 20 sieve pass rate 70%

Water injection mode: three-stage water injection

First inject 30g hot water and steam for 30s, inject fine water from the center point and slowly circle to 125g. When the water level in the filter cup drops to 225g, the total extraction time is about 2 minutes. Shake the coffee gently before tasting.

Linton mantning coffee ration beans: nuts, chocolate, caramel aroma, taste round and full, herbal, wood full flavor.

PWN Gold Mandolin Coffee: Strong dark chocolate aroma, roasted hazelnut, caramel, melon flavor is very integrated, obvious spice flavor in the mouth, mellow taste, clean, lasting finish.

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