Sumatra Jagong Mill

Nestled in the Indian Ocean between Southeast Asia and Australia is one of the world’s most prolific coffee producers: Indonesia. At the archipelago's western end is the largest of the 17,000 islands it consists of, Sumatra. This island is studded with over 30 active volcanoes and mountains that form the Bukit Barisan range. These mountain slopes are covered with tropical rainforest that experience little to no temperature variation during its wet and dry seasons. This coffee was sourced from the town of Takengon, in the Aceh region. Grown between 1300 and 1600 meters above sea level, this coffee lot consists of plant varieties known as Catimor, Typica, and Bourbon. It was processed using an Indonesian processing method where the parchment-encased coffee is hulled or milled before it dries. Appropriately dubbed “wet-hulled”, this method of removing the coffee cherry starts at the time of harvest, when the farmer will remove the fruit pulp and send their high moisture beans to a colle