Feature Filter: Team Pegasing (Washed) | Indonesia
Key Origin Info:
Producer: Team Pegasing Fam & Processing Station headed up by Hendra Maulizar, purchasing cherries from around 70 local growers
Region: Pantan Musara, Aceh, North Sumatra
Altitude: 1300-1500 masl
Variety: Tim Tim & Gayo 1
Process: Washed
Exporter: Team Pegasing | Importer: Falcon Speciality
Cup profile: Syrupy body, cherry & honey
Gayo coffee trees.
About this coffee & Team Pegasing:
Team Pegasing is a progressive coffee farm and processing station headed up by Hendra Maulizar, a young second-generation coffee producers based in the Aceh area of North Sumatra. Having learned about coffee production from his farther, Hendra is now pushing quality forward, moving away from the traditional wet-hulled processing and experimenting with new techniques.
He buys harvested coffee cherries from around 70 local growers and pays premium for good picking. According to weather conditions and demand he decides the processing methods for particular lots. This lot is processed using the a washed method, the coffee cherries ae de-pulped and floated in channels before being fermented for 12- 18 hour in a concrete tank. Once fermented the beans are washed and finally left to dry on the raised beds for between 8 - 14 days, weather depending.
