Introduction to the flavor and taste characteristics of Indonesian Mantenin coffee beans with bright sour flavor

It is customary to call coffee from Sumatra Mantenin, which is neither scientific nor confusing. The coffee produced by the Batak people in Lake Toba or the Lindong Mountains in north-central Sumatra is mostly grown without shade, and is mainly treated by half-sun or sun treatment, with obvious herbal and soil flavor, low acidity and muggy aroma, which is the most important feature of Mantenin coffee, so it is called Mantenin coffee. In the northernmost area of Sumatra, Tawahu or Achelle is planted by another Gaga friend in the traditional shade method, which is mainly washed or semi-washed, with a bright sour flavor and a light fragrance tone. American boutique coffee industry mostly calls this area coffee Axie Coffee, Gayoushan Coffee or Tawahu Coffee.

In short, the general "Mantenin" coffee has the unique fragrance of herbs and trees, and the particle size is relatively irregular; the "Golden Mantenin" coffee of Indonesia's Pwangni Coffee Company or the "Jinding Mantenin" coffee of the Japanese company are mellow and bright. Caramel sweet smell is more intense, fruit acid taste is also bright and elegant, almost no Mantenin herbal flavor, soil flavor and wood flavor. Mantenin coffee is suitable for medium-and low-grade roasting, which can reduce miscellaneous taste, while gold manning has a wider roasting range, which is neither Indonesian place name, producing area name, port name, nor coffee variety name, but a mispronunciation of Mandailing, an ethnic group formerly living in Sumatra. During World War II, a Japanese soldier was drinking coffee in Sibolga, central Tapanuli, Indonesia. When he asked the shopkeeper what kind of coffee he was drinking, the boss thought he was from, so he replied "Mandailing". When the Japanese soldier returned home after the war, he remembered that the coffee with a special flavor at that time seemed to be called "Mantenin." in 1968, Nomura Trading Company in Osaka, Japan visited the Indonesian company N. V. Pawani Medan, imported 15000 kilograms of Sumatra mantenin coffee, and was very popular after it was put on the Japanese market. since then, Mantenin Coffee and Pwangni Coffee Company have gained great fame.

Established in 1957, Indonesia's N.V. Pawani Medan (PWN) is the first Indonesian company to export coffee, rubber, cinnamon, cloves and patchouli oil. It is the first Indonesian company to export coffee from North Sumatra and the first company to make "Manning Coffee" famous in Japan. Since 1977, the company has focused on the export of premium coffee beans, Sumatran Arabica coffee Manning I and Robusta coffee AP-I II, mainly to Japan, Taiwan and the United States, of which Japan and Taiwan account for more than 95%. In Japan and Taiwan, "PWN" has become synonymous with "quality assurance". The Pwangni Coffee Company held the "Golden Golden Mandheling" trademark, so the Japanese company had to register the "Jinding Gold Top Mandheling" trademark. Coffee cultivation in Indonesia began at the end of the 17th century and was transplanted from India by the Dutch East India Company to Jakarta in Java. The variety was Arabica Typica, and soon spread to Sumatra in the northwest of Java and Sulawesi in the northeast. Tippika was withered by a massive rust outbreak in Java in the 1880s, and the Dutch changed to the disease-resistant Robsta. To this day, Robusta is still the main source of Indonesian coffee, accounting for 90% of Indonesian coffee. it is grown all over Java and Bali. The elegant Arabica is mainly distributed in the high-altitude areas of northern Sumatra, Sulawesi and Java, accounting for only about 10% of Indonesia's coffee production. However, Indonesian coffee, such as Mantenin, Golden Manning, Jinding Mantenin, Tawahu, Gayou Mountain, Axie, Sulawesi, aged Mantenin and Java Old Brown, have made Indonesian coffee famous in the boutique coffee world for decades.