sweet and clean Sumatra, raw sugar and vanilla, honey aroma, root beer, pine, herbal hints
Pantan Musara is a high elevation region in Aceh Province, South Takengon. The coffee is made up of small-holders in the region who belong to a coffee cooperative called “Ribang Gayo Musara Cooperative”. One unique aspect of this particular Sumatran coffee coop, is that they focus on processes like fully washed, natural and honey rather than the traditional wet-hulled that you mostly find from Sumatra. There’s a greater financial return on these process methods, at least for the time being. They’ve refined their technique, each lot of coffee undergoing extensive hand sorting in order to prepare to grade 1 standards. The coop has also build large drying domes with both raised beds and patio space to dry their coffee.
The smell of the dry, ground coffee has raw sugar and vanilla, and accents of wood spices and licorice root. The wet aroma is very sweet and clean, enticing raw honey sweetness is raised in the steam, an herbal note that hints at anise/licorice, and minimal dried fruit. The brewed coffee has a spiced-vanilla sweetness, just like the smells indicated, and the flavor notes echo “root beer”, with an earth-toned burdock root accent.
- Origin: Sumatra, Indonesia
- Region: Pantan Musara, Aceh Takengon
- Altitude: 1500-1700m
- Cultivars: Abyssinia, Ateng, Gayo 1, Gayo 2, Tim Tim
- Grade: Grade 1
- Processing: Wet Process (Washed)
- Drying: Covered Sun-Dried