Sumatra Lindongla Sunawana Manor Coffee Variety production area Flavor Coffee introduction

Sumatra has a long and narrow terrain, mainly the Barisan Mountains and the eastern lowlands from northwest to southeast. The mountains stretch and contain more than 90 volcanoes and numerous volcanic lakes that provide fertile soil for coffee. For tropical rain forest climate, high temperature and rainy all year round.

Sumatra is Indonesia's largest coffee producing area, well-known coffee growing areas are mainly concentrated in the northern mountains, including Aceh, the northernmost province, Sumatera Utara, North Sumatra. These include Mandheling, Lintong and Gayo Mountain.

Mandheling coffee is named after the local ethnic group, mantailing, and the production area mostly points to the northern mountains of Toba Lake. The specific production area needs to be verified.

Lintong coffee is produced in the foothills of Lake Toba, the largest volcanic lake in North Sumatra Province and Sumatra Island. The name comes from the town named lintong southwest of Lake Toba.

Gayo mountain coffee is produced in Takengon and the surrounding mountains of Lake Tawar in Takengon, Aceh Province.

Medan and Padang are important cities involved in coffee. They are the provincial capitals of North Sumatra and West Sumatra respectively. They are also the most densely populated areas in Sumatra. The former is an important distribution center for Sumatra coffee exports, while the latter is surrounded by well-known coffee production, such as Ankola.

Sumatra produces Arabica and Robusta coffee, usually grown at high elevations in the mountains and Robusta in the lowlands. Coffee processing is known as the traditional "wet planing," Giling Basah, wet-hulled, special processing partly derived from the humid climate of the region

Sumatra's mantenin beans are half "washed" beans and the other half "dried" beans. The raw beans look so ugly that many novice coffee roasters misunderstand their appearance and think they have been cheated. But when the beans are roasted, especially when they are deeply roasted, they are rich and round in appearance, rich in texture, attractive in coffee oil on the surface, with a fructose syrup flavor, intense in flavor with some sweetness and bitterness, and with a strong and distinctive aroma. In addition to mantel preferred to aid digestion, it is a masculine coffee. Sumatra also has another kind of washed beans called "GayoMountain," this coffee bean is grown from the connected coffee tree, the production quantity is not much, so not many people know, after roasting it has clove and cardamom spice flavor, taste is also good.

Kalossi coffee beans are mostly washed beans. The texture of this bean is thick, but the fruit acidity is also high, and it contains wild mushrooms and similar herbal flavors. Not many people like it. Most of them are sold to the United States and Japan. Another famous coffee bean in Sierbes is aged coffee beans, but they are very expensive and best served when stored in warm, humid climates. Aged coffee beans will not find any sour after roasting, its texture is rich, taste mellow, the effect is like aged red wine, coffee lovers have the opportunity to go to Indonesia's Siribis must try.

Java coffee beans have lost their proud name: mocha java, because in the early 1970s farmers cut down traditional coffee trees and planted high-yield and profitable beans instead. In Java, most of the coffee beans are dried by high temperature machines, so they have lost the authenticity of coffee. After roasting, the sour taste will be obvious. It can be said that Java has been difficult to find high quality "Arabica" coffee beans.