The Story of Sumatran Coffee beans the origin of Manning Coffee

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Indonesia is the largest archipelago country in the world. Arabica coffee was introduced into Indonesia as early as the Dutch rule in the 18th century. Mantenin is called "the most important coffee in the world". It is the fourth largest producing country in the world with an annual output of 7 million bags. Arabica accounts for only 10-15%, the main producing area is located in Sumatra? In Java and Sulawesi, coffee is harvested twice a year in May-June and September-October, respectively. The size of coffee farms is not about 1-3 hectares, with an average area of only 1.44 hectares. Coffee beans are almost the only crop on these small lands. They are the main source of income for 5 million local people, and there are few local manors or cooperatives acquired by Indonesian state-owned or private companies.

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 market 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.

Pure Manning is not an easy task in Indonesia. Most of the output comes from small holders of the local market, and even large estates cannot find an exporting company willing to handle and transport their coffee.

The Origin of Manning

The name "mandheling" is very different from other coffee beans. It is not the name of the producing area, place, port, or even the name of the coffee variety (such as Yegashifi or Sidamo is an African name). His name is just a phonetic error of the Indonesian mandheling people.

Why does this nation have anything to do with coffee? As a matter of fact, there is a legendary saga.

During World War II, Japan occupied Indonesia, and one of the Japanese soldiers drank extremely good coffee in a coffee shop. He immediately asked the shopkeeper the name of this cup of coffee, but because of the language gap, the shopkeeper thought he was asking, "where are you from?" So I answered: "mandheling".

After the end of the second World War, this Japanese soldier recalled that the "mantenin" he had drunk in Indonesia had asked an Indonesian broker to ship 15 metric tons of mantenin to Japan. As a result, it was very popular in the Japanese coffee market. So the name Mantenin has spread to this day. (the broker created Pwani Coffee Company, or PWN, a famous coffee company in Indonesia today, and is also the trademark owner of Gold Manning.)

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