Tuesday 2 August 2016

Sumatran Coffee

Indonesia is known as the best coffee producer. One is a coffee of Sumatra. Not only in the country, Sumatra coffee is also popular abroad, especially in America. Sumatra coffee even become one of the best-selling coffee in Uncle Sam, known as the country with the greatest level of coffee consumption.

Sumatra coffee itself has a wide range, such as Lintong coffee, coffee Lampung, Aceh Gayo coffee, and coffee Mandailing. These four types of coffee that has a specific, distinct aroma and flavor.


Lampung coffee which is one of Sumatra coffee has an aroma and taste quality highest. Lampung coffee is coffee robusta coffee bean plants can only grow well in altitude 400-700 meters above sea level with a temperature of about 21 to 24 degrees Celsius.

Sumatran coffee is coffee Sidikalang, coffee name is taken from the name of Capital Dairi, namely Kota Sidikalang located in mountain areas with an elevation of 1,500 meters above sea level.

The combination of the cold and the soil type be the main reason why coffee Sidikalang in Sumatra has a distinctive flavor. Sidikalang itself is in North Sumatra which has three of the best coffee producing regions, namely Sidikalang, Mandailings, and Lintong Nihuta.

Sumatran coffee is known for its coffee Aceh distinctive aroma and enjoyment. Gayo coffee Aceh is the fourth type of coffee from coffee from Sumatra. Coffee beans which is derived from the highlands named Gayo Aceh arabica coffee known for its unique and proven as one of the best coffee in the world. Coffee has been around since the early 10th century.



Here are the different types of coffee Sumatra:

coffee Aceh



In Aceh there are two types of coffee are grown, Arabica and Robusta. Types of Arabica coffee which is very famous Gayo, and become the largest in Asia. Arabica coffee is generally grown in the Gayo highlands, East Aceh and Gayo Lues.

Coffee Robusta coffee type is Ulee Kareng. Concessions have been cultivated in the district of Pidie (especially Tangse region and Geumpang) and Aceh Barat. A unique taste and is typical of the kind of coffee that successfully attracted foreign markets so as to make Aceh dominates Indonesia's coffee exports up 60%.

North Sumatra coffee



Arabica coffee types that have exceptional taste enjoyment in North Sumatra is the coffee Sidikalang. The name is the name of the area where the coffee came from. Sidikalang coffee itself has been known to overseas.

According to experts of coffee, the aroma and taste of coffee Sidikalang peculiarities caused by a combination of cold weather and the type of soil in the mountainous area with an altitude of 1,500 meters above sea level.

Besemah coffee (South Sumatra)



Coffee from South Sumatra is a coffee Besemah. The aroma and taste of savory coffee Besemah is favored by residents in South Sumatra. Besemah coffee Robusta coffee is a type that grows in the highlands surrounding mountains and hills. That said, the coffee Besemah from areas Pagalaram favorite coffee is one of the Queen of the Netherlands, the Queen Juliana.

coffee Lampung



Sumatran coffee is the next type of Lampung coffee include Robusta coffee types with aroma and distinct flavor. Lampung coffee has a taste more bitter, and slightly acidic. Was quite high levels of caffeine.

Thanks to the aroma and taste that fits, decent coffee Lampung categorized as one of the best coffee in Indonesia. As proof of this, in 2009 the West Lampung Coffee was awarded national winner of the category of the best quality coffee beans. (AM)



coffee Liwa



Liwa is a mountainous area in West Lampung in Sumatra, linking three provinces: Lampung, Bengkulu and South Sumatra. Kopi Luwak from Liwa very popler to foreign countries. Luwak coffee prices per kilo ranges between Rp 400 thousands to millions.

coffee Lahat



Lahat city is the oldest city in Sumatra. Age Lahat town now has reached 130 years and is a city designed by the Dutch when Indonesia invaded. Coffee culture in Lahat been going on since the first. In the district of Lahat there are many coffee plantations. Only since the marketing middlemen controlled the purchase price of coffee from farmers sometimes mocked.

coffee Pagaralam



Pagaralam located 1,000 m above sea level altitude above sea level so the air is cool. Pagaralam is the largest coffee producing regions in Sumatra. Many coffee plantations in Pagaralam, but few places processing.

Usually coffee farmers Pagaralam store coffee fruit in a condition still wrapped in its skin to make it more durable and not easily shrink. If coffee prices again unfavorable farmers usually keep the coffee fruit in large sacks. When prices improved then processed into coffee.

Coffee Empat Lawang



Empat Lawang (Tebing Tinggi) is an area of ​​the division Lahat regency on Sumatra. The town has an icon coffee beans for coffee is one commodity Empat Lawang district. Almost everywhere in the area Empat Lawang have coffee plantations that produces reliable results.

Coffee in Empat Lawang very distinctive because it results from an Arabica and Robusta. Robusta original form but the aroma of Arabica. Copies of Empat Lawang so famous that demand by merchants from other cities. Most of the coffee harvest Empat Lawang flowing out of the city and coffee purportedly stamped or other areas.

Coffee Curup-Kepahiang



Curup is one coffee producing centers in the area of ​​Bengkulu in Sumatra. Coffee Curup area is also commonly known as coffee Bengkulu. Local coffee plantation in Curup and Robusta coffee Kepahiang manifold and usually processed traditionally.

Coffee Mandailing Natal



Mandailing Natal is the coffee-producing areas of quality of the famous Dutch era in North Sumatra. In the history of the coffee that is so central to rural Indonesia Arabica coffee was first planted is a village Pakantan, Mandheling Christmas.

In one village in Mandailing Natal, the village Sambang Many Jae Ulu Pungud lot of coffee plantations that have been aged tens, even hundreds of years. The coffee plantations are believed to have links with the history of Arabica coffee which was first submitted by the Netherlands to Indonesia in 1699.

There are two types of coffee grown in Mandailing Natal. Most are coffee Arabica, Robusta then.

coffee Takengon



Sumatran coffee is coffee Takengon. Takengon have a geographical location that was one of a series of mountain chain certainly has its own advantages. The soil is fertile and rainfall is also quite high. Since it is located approximately 1,300 m above sea level it is very suitable for growing Arabica coffee.

Besides Mandailing Natal, community Gayo (Takengon) is one of the important historical part in the development of Arabica coffee in Sumatra and even to global. In Takengon, society can not be separated from the coffee plantations. Almost all the residents in the city has coffee plantations. At least one family has half a hectare in extent.

Takengon ordinary residents as community diesebut community Gayo Gayo and the term is more famous outside as well as the name of the coffee. Gayo itself a kind of Arabica coffee with a distinctive flavor. This coffee has penetrated into Eastern Europe and also America.

What distinguishes Sumatran coffee with coffee other countries?

Sumatran coffee is among the most expensive coffee stau. The Guardian reported Sumatran civet coffee as the most expensive coffee in the world. They also reported price comparison Sumatran coffee with coffee from Brazil where prices Sumatran coffee is more expensive. Yah surprised if Sumatra coffee become a favorite Athens Ohio.

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