Story flavor characteristics of Sumatra Mantenin coffee beans

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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.)

Flavor and characteristics

Most people's impression of the flavor of Mantenin coffee is herbal medicine, and some people say that it is earthy (earthy flavor), which is the unique flavor of Asian coffee beans, but because this herbal medicine has a very strong flavor, Mantenin coffee is loved and hated by people, and people who like it flock to it, but those who hate local flavor avoid it. It can be said that it is a coffee bean with a strong personality.

In addition to the fragrance of herbs, Manning also has the smell of sunwood, which is often heard of wood, which is probably a kind of wood smell.

Half-sun drying-three-stage drying

Lin Dong Manning's water resources are very precious, so at first the coffee beans are mainly in the sun, but the sun quality is unstable, so it is changed to a half-sun method similar to that in Brazil, and because of the different climate in Brazil and Indonesia (Indonesia does not often rain). On the contrary, it will make the shell beans moldy, so it can only be dried for a few hours to a day, and will be taken back to the humble treatment plant to remove the pectin layer. However, because the pectin layer was scraped off earlier, Mantenin has the characteristics of low acidity and high mellowness. After a little drying, the beans are purchased by exporters and placed in a large drying farm or directly dried by machine until the moisture content is 12% before being stored.

Taste statement

In terms of taste, Manning is very rich and mellow, and when you drink it, the coffee liquid will cover your tongue, stimulate your taste buds and give you rich sensory stimulation. First of all, you will feel a slight sour feeling, with a little sweetness and the aroma of coffee, and then when you drink the coffee into your throat, you will feel the unique bitter taste of herbal medicine and release the sweet feeling at the same time, so you have the saying of "sweet after suffering." this is also what makes Mantenin memorable.