Flavor Notes:
candied ginger, black pepper, hops
Altitude: 1400 - 1550 m
Varietal: Ateng, Catimor, Jember, Typica
Region: Lintong
Process: Wet Hulled
From Our Importers:
Tano Batak is a Covoya premium brand. Tano Batak coffee has a 16 and up screen size and comes from the Lintong and Dolok Sanggul regions near South Lake Toba in Sumatra. At 1,400 to 1,550 masl, this region has the highest coffee growing altitudes in North Sumatra. Our origination operations work with six collectors that buy coffee directly from small farmers and in weekly village markets. The collectors wet hull the coffee at 28-32% moisture and then dry it in green houses. Once around 11-12% moisture, they run the coffee over densametric tables before sending it to Medan for hand sorting. Given the exceptional quality of these coffees, we process each lot separately as microlots
Most coffee in Sumatra is grown between 2,500 and 5,500 feet and nearly all coffee is grown by smallholder coffee farmers. Nine out of 10 coffee farmers in Sumatra grow coffee on less than one hectare of land. Virtually all Sumatran coffee is wet hulled, a process known as “giling basah”. Plant Species include Bergandal and Sidikalang varieties of Typica, Hibrido de Timor (aka "Tim Tim"), a Bourbon cultivar known as Linie S, S-288 and S-795 found in Lintong, Rambung, Abyssinia, "USDA,” Caturra cultivars and Catimor lines.
