The Coffee News

If you have ever bought “Sulawesi Kalossi,” you have bought Enrekang coffee, whether the bag said so or not. Sulawesi Enrekang coffee is Arabica from Enrekang Regency in South Sulawesi, the highland region just south of Tana Toraja, and Kalosi is simply its historic trading town. Grown between about 1,200

Most Indonesian coffee grows on a volcano. This one does not. Papua Wamena coffee is arabica grown in the Baliem Valley, high in the Jayawijaya mountains of Papua, on some of the most remote farmland in the country, reachable historically only by air or on foot. It is grown between

Everything you think you know about Sumatran coffee, Solok politely ignores. Minang Solok coffee is arabica grown in Solok Regency, in the Minangkabau highlands of West Sumatra, and it is bright, clean, and fruity where most Sumatra is heavy and earthy. Grown between roughly 1,400 and 1,600 meters around Mount

The British planted coffee here before there was Indonesia. Bengkulu was Bencoolen, an East India Company outpost on Sumatra’s west coast, and coffee has been a cash crop on these slopes ever since. Today Bengkulu coffee is one of the largest robusta origins in the country, the third biggest producer

Most Sumatra coffee tastes like Sumatra: heavy, earthy, low-acid, the taste of wet-hulling and humidity. Kerinci is the origin that argues with that. Kerinci coffee comes from Kerinci Regency in Jambi Province, on the western spine of Sumatra, and it splits into two crops worth knowing. The high-grown arabica from

Drive up from Medan toward Berastagi, and the coffee starts about where the vegetable fields stop. A lot of it is younger than you would guess, planted after Mount Sinabung buried the old farms in ash. Tanah Karo coffee is arabica grown in Karo Regency, in the North Sumatra highlands