Indonesia is a Southeast Asian country, adjacent to the countries of Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and Malaysia. It is composed of 17,508 islands and is the largest archipelagic country in the world, spanning Asia and Oceania, and is also a country with many volcanoes. Indonesia is rich in natural resources and is also the largest archipelagic country in the world, composed of 17,508 large and small islands between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. Due to its location across the equator, it has unique coffee growing conditions. Currently, there are multiple islands in Indonesia where coffee is grown, such as Sulawesi Island, Java Island, Bali Island, and Sumatra Island, among others. And among them, Sumatra is renowned for Mandheling.
On the island of Sumatra, there are three main growing areas, namely the Aceh province in the north, the Toba Lake area slightly to the south, and the Mangkuraja area in the south. The planting altitude in these areas ranges between 1,100 and 1,600 meters, and the harvest is carried out during the period from September to December each year.
Lindong Mandheling
In the past, the commonly seen “Sumatra Mandheling” was named to sell coffee. However, Mandheling does not refer to the coffee variety or the place name, but rather a group on the island. During World War II, a Japanese officer drank good coffee in an Indonesian coffee shop and asked the store owner for the name of the coffee, but the store owner thought he was asking where he was from and replied Mandheling. After that, this type of coffee was brought back to Japan and the name Mandheling was continued to be used. Now, the entry-selected Mandheling from Front Street comes from the Mandheling coffee beans in the Lindong growing area of Sumatra, using the wet hulling method and being brewed with a V60 at a ratio of 1:15, it will have flavors of dark chocolate, herbs, and caramel, with a sweet aftertaste.
PWM Golden Mandheling
PWM is the abbreviation of Pwani Coffee Company, a famous green bean merchant in Indonesia. And “Golden Mandheling” has long been registered as a trademark by PWM. So only the Mandheling produced by this company is the true meaning of Golden Mandheling coffee beans. And the current PWM Golden Mandheling from Front Street comes from the Aceh Gayo Mountain on the northern side of Sumatra Island. It also uses the wet hulling method and is brewed with a V60 at a ratio of 1:15, it will have the flavors of baked toast, pine wood, cocoa, and slight herbal flavors. The taste is clean and balanced, with a caramel sweet aftertaste.
Coffee variety Ateng
Both of these types of coffee beans are the Ateng variety, and many people would think it is a new variety, but in fact, this is just the local name for the Catimor variety. “Ateng” is just the local name in Indonesia. Just like the TimTim in Indonesia is the local name for Timor Hybrid (Timor species Tim).
Wet hulling method
The wet hulling method is also known as the wet shelling method (Wet Hulling), and is also locally known as Giling Basah in Indonesia, which is the traditional coffee processing method in Indonesia. Due to the local weather often being mostly rainy days, with constant typhoons and a perennial humid and rainy climate, it cannot meet the weather conditions required for sun drying, so farmers use the wet soaking method to process coffee beans. The wet hulling method uses a water washing processing method for fermentation, and then undergoes semi-drying and removes the parchment through a machine before undergoing final drying, and finally, the coffee beans enter the storage phase. Although the name is similar to the wet processing method (water washing processing method), the final flavor that emerges is different. The coffee processed by the wet hulling method is usually rich and strong, with a particularly distinctive personality.
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