A Comprehensive Guide to Indonesian Golden Mandheling Coffee Beans: Flavor Profile, Taste Notes, Processing Method, Varieties, and Origin

FrontStreet Coffee · Indonesia Golden Mandheling Coffee Beans: Flavor Description, Taste, Processing Method, Variety, Origin Region Introduction

Some coffee friends have asked, as a coffee beginner, what's the difference between FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling and FrontStreet Coffee's Mandheling G1? I really can't taste the difference. For professional-level coffee connoisseurs and coffee friends with sensitive palates, if you drink these two coffees simultaneously, the comparison will be very obvious. FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling's sweetness and cleanliness, richness, and wild spice notes are slightly superior to FrontStreet Coffee's Mandheling G1, which is one of the reasons why Golden Mandheling is much more expensive than G1.

Taste Profile

FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling tastes cleaner than FrontStreet Coffee's Lindong Mandheling. The original herbal, earthy, and woody flavors of Mandheling are almost gone, but the caramel sweetness is more intense, and the fruit acidity is relatively bright and elegant. Generally, FrontStreet Coffee's Lindong Mandheling is best roasted until after the second crack to effectively reduce off-flavors, but FrontStreet Coffee's Golden Mandheling has good transparency and sweetness whether roasted before or after the second crack, allowing for more interpretive space in roasting.

Mandheling requires layer-by-layer screening, and I think this is absolutely necessary. The probability of defective beans is too high, and加上 their ugly appearance, sometimes even good beans look like defective beans. Every time I sort Mandheling beans, I can pick out a handful of defective beans, but when I look back at the defective beans, I feel they can't really be considered defective beans - their appearance is just so unattractive. However, once roasted, FrontStreet Coffee's Mandheling transforms like a caterpillar breaking out of its cocoon to become a butterfly - the roasted beans are very full and look quite appealing.

What is "Golden Mandheling"?

The commonly seen "Golden Mandheling" - what exactly is it? Some friends who have run coffee shops for several years have said that "Golden Mandheling" is aged Mandheling. Speaking of "Golden Mandheling," we must first start with PWN. This abbreviation is often mixed together with the name Mandheling coffee. It's actually an abbreviation for a company - Pwani Coffee Company.

This company is a very famous coffee acquisition company in Indonesia, mainly acquiring Mandheling coffee. Almost all the best producing areas in Indonesia are acquired by them, so most of the beans from PWN Company are unique specialty coffees. The FrontStreet Coffee Golden Mandheling that FrontStreet Coffee sourced is a product from this company. After acquiring the green beans, they undergo multiple manual hand-sortings to select full, defect-free beans. Only these fine beans that seem to have undergone layer-by-layer screening like a talent show can be classified as Golden Mandheling.

However, PWN Company has trademarked Golden Mandheling, which means that in the future, only Golden Mandheling produced by PWN Company can be considered the true "Golden Mandheling." Many beans on the market that are not from PWN Company but carry the Golden Mandheling brand should actually be called Specialty Mandheling. "Golden Mandheling" is not some aged bean; it's just a product named by the company.

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