Sumatra Medium Roast Fair Trade - Cafe Altura
Sumatra Medium Roast Fair Trade - Cafe Altura
Sumatra Medium Roast Fair Trade - Cafe Altura
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Sumatra Medium Roast Fair Trade

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Café Altura Sumatra Fair Trade is a medium roast which offers the earthy and spicy flavors of Sumatran coffee. Its sale also supports the Fairtrade certification, which helps support the economic viability of coffee farming around the world.


Country
: Indonesia
Producer
: Sara Ate Cooperative
Altitude
: 1200-1600 Meters
Cultivar
: Various
Process
: Fully washed
Certification: Organic, Non-GMO & Fair Trade

 

 

Sara Ate Cooperative - Tradition runs deep in the Takengon highlands of the Aceh province, a growing region acclaimed among coffee experts for its cup profiles and classic Indonesian style of coffee cultivation and processing. This lot was cultivated and harvested by members of the Sara Ate Cooperative, which was founded in 2011. The cooperative has more than 500 members with farms that average less than 3 acres in size. Producers belong to the Gayonese ethnic group and maintain a traditional village lifestyle. A large percentage of the producers are women who rely on coffee income to support their families. Each producer carefully sorts their harvested cherries before depulping and fermenting overnight with small micro-mills. Then the coffee is washed and laid out on patios to shed the excess water from the parchment covered beans. Next the coffee takes a detour from the conventional path of processing in other origins, wherein, the coffee parchment is removed while the coffee still has a high moisture content. This wet-hulling process, called Giling Basah in the Indonesian language, leaves the coffee bean exposed while drying on patios to a moisture percentage acceptable for export. This Indonesian processing method gives the bean its unique bluish hue and the hallmark Indonesian profile. With Indonesian coffees, half the battle is overcoming logistical challenges like rugged roads and unpredictable torrents of rain. Sara Ate Cooperative takes on an important role of organizing local warehouses and transportation so farmers can overcome these challenges and swiftly bring the coffee to the international market, ensuring greater earnings from direct trade relationships.


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So good and unexpected as it is low in acid. Flavor was robust and perfect

M
M.O.
reliably perfect - organic sumatran

great coffee, fair trade, prompt service - every time!

A
Aeroyn
Organic and exotic brew for that one best cup ever tasted

"I have loved Sumatran coffee for a long while when I could get it and used to grind it myself. All varieties of whole bean coffee on these pages are flavorful coffee in bean form, ripe from the location they were grown in. And each one is totally distinct from the others. One will have huge oily beans or another can have small and dried out beans making the beans look dusty. As I recall Sumatran is a large oily looking bean. Exotic coffees like those found here are direct from the source and pure. None one better and you cannot go wrong not knowing what coffee to choose from here because it will surely take top rank in your experience of tasting that "best cup ever". dx"

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Chris
sumatran coffee

"Fair trade and delicious. Need I say more?"


Customer Reviews

Based on 4 reviews
100%
(4)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
L
L.L.T.
Best

So good and unexpected as it is low in acid. Flavor was robust and perfect

M
M.O.
reliably perfect - organic sumatran

great coffee, fair trade, prompt service - every time!

A
Aeroyn
Organic and exotic brew for that one best cup ever tasted

"I have loved Sumatran coffee for a long while when I could get it and used to grind it myself. All varieties of whole bean coffee on these pages are flavorful coffee in bean form, ripe from the location they were grown in. And each one is totally distinct from the others. One will have huge oily beans or another can have small and dried out beans making the beans look dusty. As I recall Sumatran is a large oily looking bean. Exotic coffees like those found here are direct from the source and pure. None one better and you cannot go wrong not knowing what coffee to choose from here because it will surely take top rank in your experience of tasting that "best cup ever". dx"

C
Chris
sumatran coffee

"Fair trade and delicious. Need I say more?"