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Sunda Hejo processing plant is located in Bandung, West Java Province, the main coffee growing range is Malabar, about 1650 meters above sea level, volcanic soil (where the coffee grown in volcanic soil has no smoky taste), spring water, the mountain area has a large temperature difference between day and night, which is very suitable for coffee cultivation. Cooperative farmers are mainly local village residents, about 100 people, with a coffee processing plant. It is mainly planted with Typica, Caturra, Tim-Tim, Catior, S795 and other varieties, and the main treatment methods are full washing, semi-washing, honey treatment, solarization, a small amount of Indonesian traditional wet planing and many mixed treatments.

The significance of the Sunda Hejo processing plant as for the Klasik Beans cooperative is that there can be many experiments on the treatment of Indonesian coffee. The cultivation of Indonesian coffee originated from the rule of the Netherlands. At that time, the Dutch introduced Yemeni coffee to Indonesia for planting, and the primary place of planting is today's Sunda region, so it can almost be said that Sunda in Java is the starting point of Indonesian coffee. Before the establishment of the Klasik Beans cooperative, Java coffee mainly came from the four major processing plants in East Java, and farmers in the Sunda producing area in West Java still maintained the model of planting, processing and selling to raw bean merchants in small quantities per household. It is such a mode of small household planting and treatment that in the era of rapid development of coffee variety hybridization and variation, West Java is still planting primitive Typica trees transplanted here by early Dutch rulers in isolation from the rest of the world.

This time in the processing plant, lucky cup tested the Typica treated by Michael and cooperative farmers. They used three treatments, among which the honey-treated Typica was stunning, which was objectively higher in quality than most Panamanian rosy summer coffee in this season.

The Typica is transplanted from Gulali and is also marked Typica Gulali. It has a history of more than 80 years. This is the first time that cooperatives have introduced this variety and planted it in the Malabar Mountains of Sunda Hejo. It has been planted for 3-5 years and has not yet been mass-produced.

Of course, the purpose of this experiment is to select the processing method for the next quarter of Typica production, so it's not surprising that full-washed Typica tastes a little like fermentation failure.

This Typica and more about Indonesian coffee varieties and handling will be introduced in more detail in the next chapter, including Mantenin, which we often see.

This is a summary of the history of coffee cultivation in Indonesia and a brief introduction to Klasik Beans cooperatives.