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Indonesia Sumatra Mandheling Catimor Wet-Hulled Organic (green)

Indonesia Sumatra Mandheling Catimor Wet-Hulled Organic (green)

$18.85 – $160.00

In the cup: Black cherry, black tea, caramel, cedar, chocolate, leather, tobacco and walnut.

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SKU: gINDOSumMOrg Categories: Archived Beans, Pacific
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Description

Region: Aceh Highlands, North Sumatra

Farmers: Smallholders in Aceh Highlands (0.5 – 2 hectares on average)

Altitude: 1300+ MASL

Arabica varietal: Catimor

Process: Wet-hulled

In the cup: Black cherry, black tea, caramel, cedar, chocolate, leather, tobacco and walnut.

Though often thought of a growing region in Sumatra, Mandheling is more of a trade name, referring to Indonesian wet hulled coffee exported from Sumatra.  The name came from the Mandailing ethnic group, who historically were coffee traders. The harvest season in the region usually stretches from June to December.

Cultivation

Almost all farms on Sumatra are small. On average, farms are between 0.5 to 2.5 hectares. Coffee is usually the primary cash crop for farmers, but most also intercrop their trees alongside vegetables, maize and fruit. This intercropped produce will make up a substantial part of the family’s diet for the year.

In addition to growing coffee as a cash crop, many smallholder farmers also work at hired laborers at the nearby tea plantations. Tea is also a huge crop in the area. The bigger tea plantations are often near coffee farms. When the harvest is finished, coffee farmers will go there and pick leaves under contracted labour.

There are more and more initiatives by farmers on Sumatra to organize themselves into cooperatives. In the past, farmers did not have much leverage to help themselves get better prices for their cherry or parchment. When they’re in cooperatives, they can share resources, organize training and negotiate better prices.

Harvest & Post-Harvest

Coffee from the Mandheling region of Sumatra is known for one very specific feature: the wet-hulled process or gilling basah. This process is only used in Indonesia. This is mostly because the relative humidity in the air is too high to actually dry the beans enough before hulling them. After handpicking cherry, farmers process their cherry using the traditional wet hulling (giling basah) method. Following harvest, cherry is pulped at or near the farm, on small hand-cranked or motorized pulpers. The coffee is fermented for approximately 12 hours (in small tanks, buckets or bags) and washed with clean water the following morning. Parchment is sun-dried for between half a day and two days, depending on the weather, to allow for skin drying which eases the removal of parchment.

At this juncture the moisture content is between 30-40%. Farmers deliver their parchment to a collector. Collectors may either wet hull the parchment themselves or sell the parchment on to someone who will. These steps become an essential part of the process here because a wet hulling machine, though slightly different, requires a similar investment to a dry huller. Wet hullers are larger, require more power and run at a faster speed than a traditional dry huller. Few, if any, individual farmers have their own hullers.

After hulling, the coffee seed is whitish and pliable and is called labu. It is laid out to dry on tarps or patios, where it reduces in size and moisture decreases to 14-15%.  This stage the green coffee is known as asalan—unsorted and with defects.   Much of the internal commercial trade is for asalan.   Exporters, most of whom are based in Medan, will typically finish the drying down to 12-13%, sort and prepare for shipment.

Coffee in Indonesia

Indonesia has a long coffee producing history, but recently their coffees have been overlooked by the specialty market. Thanks to our innovative and ever-expanding supply chain, we are proud to bring you high-quality coffees from many of Indonesia’s unique regions, accompanied by in-depth traceability information.

Indonesia is perhaps best known for its unique wet hulling process (giling basah). Though its exact origins are unclear, wet hulling most likely originated in Aceh during the late 1970s.

Wet hulling’s popularity can be attributed to producers’ need for prompt payments. It was also adopted specifically by many producers who lacked the drying infrastructure that was needed to shelter drying parchment from the high humidity and inconsistent rainfall typical in Sumatra. At higher elevations with constant humidity and unpredictable rainfall, drying can prove to be slow, risky and difficult.

 

(info Courtesy of Sucafina)

 

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Weight1.04 kg
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Green only, Roasted 2kg, Roasted 3kg, Roasted 4kg

Grind

Aeropress, Espresso, Filter, Perc. Urn, Plunger, Whole Bean

Crop Year

2020-21

Coffee_grade

Gr 1 Specialty

Organic

Yes

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