Mantenin coffee with unique herbal flavor. Have you heard the story of it?

Fuelled by the third wave of boutique coffee in recent years, growers and processors from producing areas, to bean bakers, baristas, and even drinking guests, pay more and more attention to the production experience of coffee beans. We have more or less heard of geisha coffee (variety) and Yegashev (place of origin) in Ethiopia. In the past, we often heard of "Mamba Coffee", that is, Mantenin mixed with Brazilian coffee recipes. Now we know that Brazil, as a place of origin, contains many different producing areas and is subdivided into many different estates, with different varieties of coffee trees planted.

So is Manning a variety such as geisha coffee, or does it just represent the producing area like Yega Xuefei? The history of growing coffee in Indonesia can be traced back to 1696, when the Dutch East India Company brought the Tibica seed from Arabica to Java.

Due to the suitable environment, the planting area quickly expanded to Sumatra and Sulawesi in the north of Java. Until 1908, a serious leaf rust disease caused most coffee farms to plant robusta species instead, so although Indonesia is the third largest coffee producer in the world, it mainly exports cheap robusta coffee. Although Robusta accounts for more than 90% of Indonesian coffee, it still retains high-quality Arabica coffee at higher elevations in northern Sumatra and Java. For this reason, the high-quality coffee encountered by the Japanese army in Sumatra during World War II was planted by the Mantenin ethnic minority living in the northern highlands of Sumatra. After the war, Japan introduced it into the country. Manning has since been synonymous with Sumatran coffee.