The growing region of Aceh is home to the Mandheling coffees. Both are truly unique in their flavors and lineage.

When discussing Sumatran arabica coffee, the two primary qualities are Sumatra Mandheling and Sumatra Lintong. The North Sumatra Province is home to some of the world’s most prized coffee. Good For: Auto Drip, Full Immersion, Espressoĭescription: Sumatra is the largest island in the Indonesian archipelago and the sixth largest island in the world.

The wet aroma is marked by smells I tend to associate with Lintong coffee, rustic palm sugar and some green mossy hints, along with an intense bittersweetness that pulls all the outlier aspects closer to the ground.Varietal: Sigararutang, Jember Lini S795, AndungsariĬupping Notes: Baking Spices, Brown Sugar, Fruit Leather

The dry grounds give off sweet caramel notes, a pipe tobacco accent, and a savory umami hint. Mutu Batak is a potent-smelling coffee, earthy and with a rustic-tinged sweetness from front to back. Tasting Notes: Earth-toned sweetness, rustic date and palm sugars, pungent bittersweetness, raw cacao, sharp tobacco, peat/scotch aromatic accent, inky thick body, licorice hint. Lake Toba defines the landscape of the area, as the largest volcanic crater lake in the world, and the result of the largest volcanic event on earth in the last 25 million years! Lintong Nihuta is the town that has become synonymous with the entire southern part of Lake Toba area. Lintong coffees are from Sumatra, the island that is politically and geographically part of Indonesia. Mutu Batak” comes from the growing region of Lintong in Northern Sumatra near the shores of Lake Toba.

Sumatra mandheling coffee