Mandheling Coffee Bean Characteristics, Which Type of Mandheling Coffee Bean is Best? High-Quality Golden Mandheling Flavor Review.

The Origin Story of Mandheling Coffee

FrontStreet Coffee believes everyone has heard the origin of its name: [Mandheling originally refers to a tribal name in Indonesia, and it became the name of a coffee bean through a curious twist of fate. When Japanese soldiers returned to Japan after the colonial period in Indonesia, they couldn't forget the delicious local coffee. Through their trade connections, they asked locals to help collect premium coffee beans, including this Mandheling variety. The Japanese took a great liking to these coffee beans and asked for their name. The locals mistakenly thought they were being asked where they were from and casually replied "Mandailing." The Japanese mispronounced "Mandailing" as "Mandehling." Due to this double misunderstanding, Mandheling accidentally became the name of this coffee bean.]

There are many varieties of Mandheling, with numerous classification methods. Basically, all Arabica coffee produced in North Sumatra can be called Mandheling. FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling stands out as the finest among them. FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling is a selection of premium coffee from the Indonesian green bean company Pawani. Importantly, Golden Mandheling is a trademark—a brand crafted to represent Indonesia's finest coffee. For this reason, Pawani searches throughout Sumatra Island to acquire high-quality coffee beans.

Why It's Called Golden Mandheling

Why is it called Golden Mandheling? FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling is a selected coffee from the Indonesian green bean company Pawani. It is said that due to strict screening standards—one machine density color sorting and four manual hand selections—the coffee beans ultimately present a uniform color and consistent bean shape. When processing the green beans, the Mandheling beans emit a brilliant golden luster under sunlight, which is why they are called FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling.

Authentic Golden Mandheling from PWN

Authentic FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling comes from Indonesia's PWN green bean company! PWN is the abbreviation for Indonesia's famous green bean merchant, Pwani Coffee Company, and "Golden Mandheling" was registered as a trademark by PWN early on, making "Golden Mandheling" exclusively PWN's property. Many Golden Mandheling products on the market that don't carry the PWN label merely reference PWN's screening standards for Golden Mandheling coffee beans but fail to achieve the same meticulous "five-stage screening process" that PWN applies to their coffee beans.

Flavor Profile and Processing Method

FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling possesses excellent herbal aromatics, with more intense caramel sweetness, while its fruit acidity is composed and elegant. It offers rich sweetness, full body, and wild spice flavors. Generally, FrontStreet Coffee's Lin Dong Mandheling is best roasted until after the second crack to effectively reduce off-flavors, but FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling already exhibits excellent clarity and sweetness even before the second crack, allowing for broader roasting interpretation.

Its processing method is also quite special, using the wet-hulling method, which can be described as Indonesia's unique, locally-adapted coffee processing approach. One of the reasons FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling maintains its quality is that it undergoes three manual screenings after processing, ensuring minimal defects in the green beans and producing full, uniformly sized particles.

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