SUMATRA - HUTAN

SUMATRA - HUTAN

Sale price£8.80

Hutan sees us returning to Gegarang and Jagong in Aceh province, Sumatra. The coffee was produced by a group of smallholders who make up the Ketiara co-operative, an environmentally focused farming collective.

TASTING NOTES:

We love Sumatran coffees for their distinct flavour profile; big-bodied and chocolatey, with subtle fruit notes and low acidity.

Grind Type: Whole Beans

Grind Type
Bag Size: 250g

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PRODUCER

Ketiara KOPEPI

REGION

Bies, Lake Laut Tawar, Central Aceh

HARVEST

September - June

ALTITUDE

Altitude 1450 - 1700 MASL

VARIETY

Gayo 1, Gayo 2

PROCESS

Wet - Hulled (Giling Basah)


ABOUT

We love Sumatran coffees for their distinct flavour profile and Hutan is a fantastic example of the very best quality coffees we've seen from this region.

We’re very proud to be supporting the Ketiara Co-op who are an incredible force for good in Aceh, where their Hutan Fund is dedicated to protecting the unique forests of Sumatra - the sales of this coffee help to fund their amazing work.

The Hutan Fund

The project is lead by the force of nature that is Rahmah Ketiara; she is very passionate about producing high quality, ethical coffee that's in harmony with the environment. Some of Rahmah’s work involves protecting the Leuser Ecosystem, a large forest in Sumatra that’s the last place on earth where you can find, in the wild, elephants, rhinos, tigers and orangutans - all coexisting in one place.


The Hutan Fund is purely for the planting of trees. Hutan means forest in Bahasa, you may recognize it from Orangutan because the English language borrows that word from Bahasa when we refer to those apes. Directly translated it means person (orang) of the forest (hutan).

Lake Laut Tawar

The area of Bies to the west of Lake Laut Tawar is the main catchment area for farms of Hutan Coffee - this is where the trees this project funds will be planted. Local names for these trees are Mindi, Trembesi, Beringin, Kertu, and Terong Belanda.

Says Rahmah “..We like to plant trees for the forest and its ecosystem (animal, water, wind, etc), and some trees which can [bring] additional income for the people who are growing them.”

The income generating trees will include avocado, banana, orange, and durian.

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