The color of the fresh coffee beans remains deep greenish-blue before they are roasted. The taste of Sumatra coffee is very delicious, sweet and creamy but complex as it includes the tinge of spice, chocolate, and butterscotch as well as undertones of earthy flavors. This coffee has covered the wild jungle of this tropical island of Indonesia. Sumatra coffee is also known as syrupy coffee due to the resemblance of the fullness of its body with premium quality coffees. It is grown in West Central Indonesia, in Padang at the elevation from 2,500 to 5,000 feet above the sea level. The production of this coffee is complicated and interesting produced by a number of holders of small lands by using the processing technique of wet hulling’ or giling basah’. Moreover, the mountainous regions within Sumatra and other islands have created the climate more suitable for the production of coffee, this can be attributed to location near the equator.Ĭomes from the Sunda islands along the west coast of Indonesia by Mandailing people of Sumatra and is known as one of the most gourmet coffees of the world. Climate including geography of Indonesia is very suitable for growing coffee.

Sumatra arabica coffee