Sumatra Boru Batak

These beans come from the Lintong region, grown by small farmers with an exceptional history of producing great coffee near Lake Toba.  If you've had the La Minita Sumatra Iskandar before, then you will be familiar with this coffee, but this is what they are calling it now.  Compared to what you expect to find out of Indonesia, this Sumatra is extraordinary.  These beans are meticulously sorted with only the largest and cleanest beans making the cut (screen 17/18+). Most Sumatran coffee is riddled with broken beans, bug marks, chaff, and a variety of bean sizes, but that is not the case here.  Notice the beautiful blue hue of the coffee - they are almost glowing.  Everything about the growing and processing and sorting of this coffee is meticulous, and the labor involved in producing this coffee is mind-boggling.  The cultivars are Ateng, Jember, and Garundang. Boru Batak is extremely rare, only a few hundred bags a year at most, and it has to be reserved long before it arrives. A wid