How about Indonesian coffee? Which brand of Indonesian coffee tastes good?

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Mantenin is the most famous Indonesian coffee. Its strong flavor is both loved and hated. It has herbal and herbal flavors, and its mellow thickness is much higher than that of Africa and Central and South America. It has a low sour taste and some heavy wood or spice flavor. People who like it will fall in love with it as soon as they drink it, and those who hate it will never want to try again!

In fact, the output of Indonesian coffee has always been the highest in Asia, but it was squeezed out by Vietnam (mainly strong beans) in 1999, ranking second in Asia! Although there is a lot of coffee in Indonesia, most of them are coffee beans grown by Robusta, and the proportion of fine coffee is less, which is less than 50% of the total coffee output in Indonesia. Even so, Indonesia's boutique beans are still very famous. Including Mantenin, Gold Manning, Lake Tawa, Old Manning, Java Old Brown and so on, are all the reasons that make Indonesia so famous in the boutique world!

Due to the outbreak of serious leaf rust in Java in the 19th century and the almost extinction of coffee trees in Arabica, the Dutch changed to Robusta with strong disease resistance in Indonesia, which continues to this day.

Indonesian boutique coffee producing areas

Indonesia's boutique coffee producing areas are mainly distributed in northern Sumatra, Sulawichi, Java and other high-altitude places, of which Sumatra is the main producing area of boutique beans, but the coffee system here is very complex, so Stephen's manager quoted the new version. The four types in coffee science are briefly described, which are easy for everyone to understand:

The most familiar Mantenin is mainly distributed around Lake Toba in north-central Sumatra, while the most famous is the half-sun or sun-dried beans located in the Lindong Mountain area (Lingtong) on the southwest bank at an altitude of 900-1200 meters.

Gold manning, after four hand selections, is a notch higher than the average manning.

Lake Tawa coffee refers to washed, semi-washed or sun-dried beans near Lake Tawa in Aceh, northern Sumatra, 800-1600m above sea level in the area of Gayo Moutain. The coffee beans in this area are valued by everyone.

Old Manning and Java Old Brown.

From these points, it can be seen that only the third point of Tawa Lake coffee is not called Mantenin. This is mainly because the coffee beans in this area of Lake Tawa and Aceh are mainly cultivated in traditional shade. It is very different from the sun-exposed planting in the area of Lindong or Lake Toba, and it is washed and semi-washed, so the coffee beans here are not usually called Mantenin coffee. It will be called Aceh Coffee (Aceh Coffee) or Lake Tawa Coffee!

Indonesian coffee grade

Indonesia usually uses 300g of raw beans as the benchmark and calculates the number of defects to determine the grade of coffee. If the defect score is higher, the grade is lower, if the deduction is less than 11 points, it can be divided into the highest level 1 (G1), and then down into 2 or 3 levels.