Wicked Dark Sulawesi Coffee

Description

We’ve taken our Sulawesi Toraja “Sapan Minanga” to a smoky French roast, and all kinds of transformation happened.  The resulting thick-bodied, syrupy coffee now has notes of an Earthy bittersweet dark molasses, baker’s chocolate and hints of cedar.

The Torajan tribe, living in the central mountain region of the South Sulawesi province, continue to maintain a traditional village
lifestyle that includes houses that resemble boats. The growing region has a complex geography that includes humid low-land rice
paddies flanked by thousand-foot rock walls capped in perpetual mist. Coffee is grown in this geographic wonderland at
elevations that reach 2000 MASL, considered to be some of the highest growing elevations in all of Indonesia. In recent years,
producers who cultivate and harvest coffee on farms that average less than 3 acres in size have been organizing and building
community micro-mills to improve their processing standards. At these mills, each producer carefully sorts their harvested
cherries, depulps, ferments overnight, washes, and lays wet parchment out on patios to shed water. Next the coffee takes a
detour from the conventional path of processing in other origins, wherein, the coffee parchment is removed while the coffee still
has a high moisture content. This wet-hulling process, called Giling Basah in the Indonesian language, leaves the coffee bean
exposed while drying on patios to a moisture percentage acceptable for export and gives the bean its unique bluish color and the
hallmark Indonesian profile. Local producer groups have also begun to partner with regional exporters like Indokom to overcome
logistical challenges like rugged roads and lack of infrastructure. Indokom provides logistics and milling facilities, which improves
traceability and quality control throughout the post-harvest process, as well as, the ability to swiftly bring the coffee to the
international market, ensuring greater producer earnings from direct trade relationships.

Elevation: 1400 meters
Varietals: Catimor, S-795, Typica
Process: Wet Hulled