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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In 2025 a single 20-kilogram lot of washed Geisha from one farm in Panama sold at auction for $30,204 per kilogram. That is not a
Open a bag of Liberica next to a bag of Arabica, and you can tell them apart with your eyes closed. The beans are almost
