Named after its producer, Muhtar's coffee has been winning our hearts since 2014.
Muhtar has long been a Ketiara Cooperative member, contributing to our Indonesian Bies Penantan single origin offering. But on a sourcing trip to Northern Sumatra in 2014, we tried Muhtar's coffee on its own and jumped at the opportunity to offer it as an organic single origin coffee.
On his small farm in Gayo Highlands, near the city of Takengon in Aceh, Indonesia, Muhtar has a unique approach to tending his coffee trees: He believes every tree has different needs, so he tends to each plant individually—he even sings to them.
Muhtar also prunes the coffee trees to allow maximum airflow and sunlight distribution to each part of the plant. Once harvested, he processes his lots using wet-hulling, where coffee cherry is de-pulped, fermented, washed, and partially dried before being transported to the cooperative facility for final processing—including patio drying and hand-sorting by size and density.
This careful attention to detail (and the singing!) contributes to the heavy body and distinct profile of this coffee, and its notes of cinnamon, chocolate ganache, and toffee.
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