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Hand a roaster a cup of washed Arabica Rinjani without telling them where it came from, and most will not guess Indonesia. They will taste orange, a little strawberry, a clean citrus finish that hangs around, and they will start reaching for East Africa. That reflex is the most interesting

We cup every lot that leaves our warehouse in Medan, which means we also roast every lot first, on a small electric sample roaster, before it is ever shipped. After a few thousand of those roasts, one thing is clear: most beginner roasting problems are not roasting problems at all.

Pull the export records for “Sumatra Mandheling” over the last hundred years, and you are, in part, reading the trade history of a coffee that grew somewhere else. Much of it came from the Angkola and Sipirok highlands, walked north to be aggregated in Mandailing, and left the island under

In April 2016, a coffee from a forest on a West Java mountain walked into a competition in Atlanta and beat the field. Arabica Puntang is arabica grown on the slopes of Gunung Puntang, south of Bandung in West Java, at roughly 1,200 to 1,500 meters, and it is best

Some origins matter for how they taste. Timor matters for what it did to every other coffee. Timor coffee is arabica grown on Timor island, split between Indonesian West Timor in the province of Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) and independent Timor-Leste to the east. The Indonesian side grows organic, smallholder

When someone calls coffee “a cup of Java,” this is roughly where the phrase was born. Java Malabar coffee is Arabica grown on the slopes of Mount Malabar, above Pangalengan in the West Java highlands, part of the historic Java Preanger region where the Dutch planted some of Indonesia’s first