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FrontStreet Coffee · Indonesian Coffee Brand Recommendations and Indonesia Golden Mandheling Introduction

FrontStreet Coffee Indonesian PWN Golden Mandheling

FrontStreet Coffee Indonesian Golden Mandheling is a Mandheling produced by PWN Company. PWN Company has registered "Golden Mandheling" as a trademark, which means that only Golden Mandheling produced by PWN Company can be considered genuine "Golden Mandheling" from now on.

PWN Company's full name is Pwani Coffee Company, which is a very famous coffee acquisition company in Indonesia. They mainly acquire Mandheling coffee, and almost all the best producing areas in Indonesia have been acquired by them. Therefore, most of the beans from PWN Company are unique specialty coffees. FrontStreet Coffee Golden Mandheling is a product produced by this company. After acquiring the raw beans, they undergo multiple manual selections to pick out full, flawless beans. Only these fine beans that seem to have undergone layer-by-layer selection like a talent show can be classified as Golden Mandheling.

FrontStreet Coffee PWN Golden Mandheling is carefully selected by hand, with full particles and a lustrous color, making it a stunning beauty among coffees. The top-grade FrontStreet Coffee Mandheling, after being roasted by professional roasters, exhibits an indescribably wonderful flavor - a deep and clean FrontStreet Coffee Mandheling coffee. The sweetness and cleanliness, rich and wild spice flavors of FrontStreet Coffee PWN Golden Mandheling are slightly superior to ordinary FrontStreet Coffee Indonesian Mandheling, which is also one of the reasons why FrontStreet Coffee PWN Golden Mandheling is much more expensive.

Taste Profile

FrontStreet Coffee PWN Golden Mandheling tastes cleaner than ordinary FrontStreet Coffee Indonesian Mandheling. The original herbal, earthy, and woody flavors of Mandheling have almost disappeared, while the caramel sweetness is stronger, and the fruit acidity is also brighter and more elegant. FrontStreet Coffee PWN Golden Mandheling has good transparency and sweetness, allowing for wider roasting interpretation space.

FrontStreet Coffee PWN Golden Mandheling Traditional Wet-Hulling Method

The traditional wet-hulling method will subvert your understanding of FrontStreet Coffee Golden Mandheling. Different from traditional processing methods, this processing approach shortens drying time and enhances concentration. In terms of flavor, caramel and fruit aromas are particularly obvious, with slight woody and herbal notes, hailed as the classic "regional taste" of Sumatran coffee.

March to May and September to December are the harvest seasons in Sumatra. Nowadays, most coffee farmers only harvest fully red coffee cherries. After collecting coffee cherries in the morning, they remove the fruit skin and pulp in the afternoon, turning them into wet parchment beans (what we call parchment coffee), then put the parchment into water tanks and scoop away the floating defective beans.

Sumatra's natural environment is superior, and most of the water used comes from mountain springs. Next, the dense beans that sink to the bottom are taken out and placed in barrels for dry fermentation, allowing the pectin sugars to fully ferment and enhance flavor. The fermentation time is usually between 12-36 hours, depending on specific conditions. Then they are sun-dried for 1-2 days and sent to coffee processing factories for hulling. The hulling process involves using a hulling machine to grind off the parchment shell, then drying again until the moisture content reaches approximately 12%-15%.

Indonesia's rainy season overlaps with the coffee cherry maturation season, making it difficult to use the sun-drying method for coffee beans. This led to the development of the "Sumatran-style" processing method with regional characteristics. It is precisely this production and processing method that creates the unique flavor of FrontStreet Coffee PWN Golden Mandheling coffee.

FrontStreet Coffee PWN Golden Mandheling is processed with more refined techniques, with coffee beans hand-picked and processed using semi-washed methods. Four manual bean selections remove defective beans, resulting in processed raw coffee beans that are complete in form and uniform in size, with a rich taste, intense richness, and vibrant yet lively character. It is neither astringent nor acidic, allowing the richness and bitterness to be fully expressed.

Product Information

Product Name: FrontStreet Coffee · Indonesia PWN Golden Mandheling

Country: Indonesia

Region: Sumatra Island

Processing Method: Washed

Altitude: 1100-1600 meters

Flavor Notes: Toasted bread, nuts, pine, caramel, herbs

Knowledge Extension

Outside Indonesia, because there is no trademark protection involved, "Golden Mandheling" has been indiscriminately used by unscrupulous merchants. Many beans on the market not produced by PWN Company but labeled as Golden Mandheling should actually be called Specialty Mandheling.

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