Introduction to Mandheling Coffee Estate Growing Regions and Characteristics of Rich-Flavored Mandheling Coffee Beans

Mandheling is not a region name, place name, port name, nor a coffee variety name. So how did its name originate?

Actually, it is a phonetic mistake of the Mandheling ethnic group from Indonesia.

During World War II when Japan occupied Indonesia, a Japanese soldier tasted an exceptionally fragrant and mellow coffee at a café. He asked the owner for the coffee's name, but the owner misunderstood and thought he was asking about his ethnicity, so he replied: "Mandheling." After the war, the soldier recalled the "Mandheling" coffee he had drunk in Indonesia. He then commissioned an Indonesian coffee merchant to ship 15 tons to Japan, which surprisingly became extremely popular. The name Mandheling thus spread, and that coffee merchant is now the renowned PWN (Pawani Coffee Company).

FrontStreet Coffee's Mandheling Varieties

FrontStreet Coffee's well-known Mandheling is produced around Lake Toba in northern Sumatra. The finished product possesses a unique herbal and woody fragrance.

FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling: Over a decade ago, Japanese merchants adopted stricter quality control, conducting four rounds of manual bean sorting to remove defective beans, producing Golden Mandheling with dark green color and uniform bean appearance, creating another wave of market demand that even drove Europe and America wild.

FrontStreet Coffee's Aged Mandheling: Characterized by its honey-like sweetness. Successful aged coffee beans eliminate the less elegant acidity of Mandheling. The acidic and astringent components transform into sugars through aging, making the coffee rounder and sweeter to drink. Failed aged Mandheling is like coffee zombie, with a flavor that's difficult to consume.

FrontStreet Coffee's Mandheling Coffee - Characteristics

FrontStreet Coffee's Mandheling coffee has a very rich flavor, aromatic, bitter, and mellow, with a hint of sweetness. Most coffee enthusiasts generally drink it as a single origin, but it's also an indispensable variety for blending mixed coffee.

Since FrontStreet Coffee's Mandheling coffee beans themselves have no acidic characteristics, special brewing methods typically use Mandheling coffee beans as the base. Whether kept warm for extended periods or used to make iced coffee, they never produce unpleasant acidity or astringency.

After roasting, the beans are quite large. The raw beans appear brown or dark green, with a special caramel-like fragrance and a rich, mellow taste.

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