Indonesian Mantenin Coffee Estate with a hint of wood and herbs

The origin of Manning's name:

It first appeared after World War II, when the Japanese mistakenly pronounced Mandaining, the first coffee grower, as Mantenin, which is still in use today.

Manning's main producing areas are in Aceh and North Sumatra, where Arabica accounts for 85% of Indonesia's total Arabica output. Sumatran coffee, as called by the boutique coffee industry, also refers to these two districts.

Subdivide again

Aceh Special District: Tawa Lake Gaiyou Mountain Gaiyou Aceh Coffee Gai you Manning Takengong Mantenin

North Sumatra: East of Lake dopa, Mandaining, Batak, Manning Coffee, Golden Manning.

The varieties are: Tibica TimTim BorBor and Ateng series, and the latter three are called devil hybrids by Europe and America.

Europe and the United States despise it because it is a hybrid of Robasta and Arabica, not pure Arabica, but now TimTim and Ateng account for 70 per cent of Sumatran coffee.

In the American boutique world, there are two high-end Sumatran coffees: Iskandar and Aceh Gold are sold by La Minita in Costa Rica. The selected beans are the best beans from Lake Tawa and Lake dopa.

The unique wet planing method of Sumatra

Due to the humid climate of Sumatra, the ancestors developed a unique wet planing method according to local conditions.

After the coffee fruit is peeled, put the shell bean directly into a water container, go out to float the defective bean, and expose the sunken shell bean to the bottom for one to two days. The moisture content of the bean body reaches 30% 50%, and the bean body is still semi-dry and semi-soft. Grind off the seed shell with a bubble shell machine and then dry it, and the moisture content reaches 12% 13% in about two days.

This wet planing method shortens the fermentation period of coffee beans, greatly reduces the sour taste and increases the thickness, and has obvious caramel and fruit aromas with slightly woody and herbal flavours, which is the classic "regional flavor" of Sumatran coffee.

Manning Coffee

Among the coffee beans, the appearance of Manning coffee beans is arguably the ugliest, but coffee fans say that the worse the Sumatran coffee beans are, the better, mellow and slippery they are.

Mantenin has a strong taste, with a strong mellow and rich and lively sense of movement, not astringent but not sour, mellowness and bitterness. Manning's bitterness is sweet, even mixed with a little mildew, which confuses many suitors as if he had been poisoned.