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INDONESIA - IJEN HIGHLANDS - NATURAL

INDONESIA - IJEN HIGHLANDS - NATURAL

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Our first time featuring a coffee from Indonesia!

Grown in Botolinggo village in the East Java province within the lucious Ijen Highlands, this natural-processed coffee is not your classic coffee profile that Indonesian coffees are known for...

Typically, Indonesian coffees are known for their rich, heavy-body, with low acidity and sometimes earthy and spice characteristics. This coffee however brings something different, allowing for wonderful fruit and floral notes to shine through, especially as the cup cools.

This is a testament to the care and attention that has gone into the processing of this coffee by its producer Kevenka coffee, owned and run by two entrepreneur brothers Kevin & Kenny Soewondo. Having started out running their own cafe, their curiosity about the supply chain led them to start producing their own raw coffee. 

Expect a full-bodied brew that holds bags of flavour within, balancing notes of thick milk chocolate and opening up into creamy strawberry and floral vanilla notes as it cools to a drinkable temperature. 

 

The Story behind the brew:

Kevenka was formed by two entrepreneurs brother Kevin & Kenny Soewondo who are from Surubaya in East Java. They initially started in coffee by opening a cafe in Surubaya and then realised they could roast themselves they opened a roastery. This soon led to them being inquisitive about the supply of green coffee they received and led them to start processing green coffee themselves from the highlands in and around Mt Ijen to supply their roastery. The next natural step was to start selling green coffee in the expanding internal specialty market as well as exporting coffee. In recent years they have been renting old processing facilities that were previously used for rice processing and drying and turned this into their processing centres at the bottom of Mt Ijen.

Kevin Soewondo has travelled to Colombia to undertake the Q processing level 3 qualification to enhance their knowledge and improve their processing. They are embracing technology as well by investing in a small cherry colour sorter that helps them to be precise with the cherry and consistency. Historically with the wet hulled process in Indonesia there has never been the incentive to deliver uniform ripe cherry due to the high demand and prices often seen in the local market. 

The colour sorter has also opened more opportunities for them and also increased their efficiency of not needing to handsort all the coffee before processing. For the 2025 season they have also invested in a Pinhalese mechanical drier due to the often wet environment they have to dry their coffee in. Mt. Ijen, Indonesia is a mountain located in East Java, around 3,5 hours’ drive from Bali. It is a somewhat active volcano in East Java province, Indonesia. 

 

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