Small holding coffee plantations in the Lues, totaling 94,500 hectares. The area is part of the Bukit Barisan mountain range, which stretches across the island of Sumatra. This special coffee comes from the Gayo highlands in Central Aceh, near Lake Laut Tawar, which is surrounded by thousands of hectares of vegetation, mostly coffee and pine. Mandheling coffee is grown in altitudes of 2,500 to 5,000 feet. Later, the word spread to Japan, and then the name stuck as merchants began inquiring about the purchase of Mandheling coffee from Sumatra/Ĭoffee trees were brought to the island in the early 19th century in an attempt to break the near monopoly on coffee beans from other parts of the world. While most coffee is named after the growing region, or the country, Mandheling coffee is named after the Mandailing people that traditionally farmed and processed the coffee beans in the Tapanuli region. Tasting notes: Rich, juicy, & sugary with cola, caramel, chocolate, apple, toffee, tomato, cooked fruit & lemon.Sumatra Mandheling coffee is one of the common four types of Sumatra Arabica coffee. It's then spread into a drying house or on raised tables to dry for 14 days or so. The Washed coffees are fermented for 36 hours after being depulped, then washed four times to remove the mucilage. Unlike the vast majority of other Sumatran coffee receiving and processing centers, this mill is producing Washed coffees, as well as Naturals.Ĭoffee is delivered to the mill by producers in the area, and for Washed coffees, only fresh red cherries can be purchased.

The mill serves several small coffee producers within the Pantan Musara villages several years ago, these producers were dislocated from their homes and land because of a natural disaster, and they have rebuilt their lives and farms with a new focus on coffee.

This coffee comes from a small mill in the Pegasing district of Takengon, in Sumatra's coffee-famous Aceh region.

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