Indonesia Sumatra Honey Arabica Gr1, Kerinci

Coffee cultivation in Indonesia goes back to the late 1600s to the Dutch colonial
period and has played an essential role in its growth ever since. Today, over 300
years later, Indonesia ranks among the world‘s largest coffee producers, cultivating
both Arabica and Robusta. The vast majority of coffee is grown by smallholder
farmers with rarely more than 2 hectares of land. Indonesia consists of around
18,000 islands, of which ten major islands emerged as coffee-producing regions.
Sumatra‘s westernmost island is crossed by the equator, featuring landscapes of
unparalleled beauty and wildlife as spectacular as one can imagine. This particular
coffee comes from central Sumatra, more precisely from the region around Kerinci
Seblat National Park. The area is home to a lush tropical rain forest and one of the
Sumatran tiger‘s last strongholds. Mount Kerinci, the country‘s highest volcano with
an elevation of 3,800 meters, dominates the scenery. Encircling the mountain,
smallholder farms in the Kerinci highlands benefit from high altitudes and fertile
volcanic soil. This is the case of farmers from the Camintoran Cooperative, a
producer group with 162 members.
This particular micro-lot of S-Lini & Caturra varieties was produced by farmers
hailing from the villages of Palompek, Solok and Bengkolan Dua. After it is manually
collected, the ripe cherries are depulped and afterwards dried in parchment with a
little remainder of mucilage. This process is known as „honey“. Another difference to
the conventional coffee processing in Sumatra is that instead of the often applied
wet-hulling processes, these beans are dry-hulled.

CUP PROFILE: vivid, citric, velvety, raisin, honey, dried fig

REGION: Kerinci Valley, West Sumatra

PRODUCER: Camintoran Cooperative

VARIETY: S-Lini & Cattura

PROCESS: Honey Process

ELEVATION: 1250 – 1600 m

Harvest time: October – January (main) & May – August
sca score 85 points