Tasting notes: Milk chocolate, vanilla, tobacco, and clove
Sumatra Queen Ketiara, Equator Coffee – Best for Pour OverĪroma: Fresh herbs, chocolate, and tangerine They work with coffee farmers to ensure a sustainable business without clearing the rainforest and precious habitat of these amazing animals. These beans are also grown in conjunction with the Orang Utan Coffee Partnership. The combination of sweet stone fruits with rich earthiness and low acidity makes for a very unique coffee drinking experience. These beans are grown near the town of Takengon with the shade of the rich forests creating a complex variety of flavors from the slow-ripening beans. If you’re looking for a pure taste of Sumatran Arabica then we think the best Sumatran coffee beans available are Volcanica’s single-origin, washed processed coffee from Gayo Mountain.Ī relatively rare find, compared with other areas of Sumatra, the distinct microclimates of the farms around Gayo mountain create unique and diverse flavor profiles. Important notes: Grown with Orang Utan Coffee Partnership to ensure habitat protection for local wildlife Buy Now Now, most of the Arabica coffee grown in Indonesia is Sumatran. Green coffee production remains strong to this day, with over 61,000 tons being exported in 2019.Īroma: Dark berries, chocolate, fresh-fallen leaves As a result, more Arabica varieties were planted there – some with mild disease resistance. The high-altitude plantations on Sumatra were much less affected, many did not suffer from coffee leaf rust at all. To this day most of the coffee grown in Indonesia is Robusta. It was initially brought to Java, obviously, but spread across the islands that were ideally suited to coffee growing. Though it didn’t reach the highlands of Sumatra until 1888.Ĭoffee leaf rust decimated the Arabica coffee plantations of Indonesia and they were replanted with Robusta, which is much more disease resistant than the Typica Arabica variety that had initially been brought to the islands. Sumatra coffee history starts in the 1600s when coffee was brought to Indonesia by the Dutch. Sumatra is the westernmost island of Indonesia and is nearly perfectly bisected by the equator.
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