Peaberry Coffee 6 Year Aged Angopuro Mountain Robusta Artisan Coffee Beans - Jember, East Java, Indonesia High Altitude

Angopuro Mountain Robusta Artisan Aged 6 Years Coffee Beans - Jember, East Java, Indonesia High Altitude



Jungle : Argopuro Mountain, Jember - East Java - Indonesia
Altitude : 1400-1700m , jungle pine forest-shaded
Trade : Fair Trade +++
Roast : Medium, Robusta PEABERRY - Dry Aged 6 Years
Quantity : 200g - Whole Beans




Peaberry Coffee (Aged 6 Years before Roasting ! Harvested in 2017 )



First ... what is Peaberry Coffee??


Coffee enthusiasts looking for the “champagne of coffee” will quickly find that peaberry coffee is more expensive. This is due to the rarity of this exquisite coffee. Not only are peaberries hard and unpredictable to find, they require hand sorting, separate roasting, and careful handling.

Peaberry lovers and some professional coffee graders also believe that because the single peaberry bean receives all of the nutrients of the coffee cherry rather than sharing with another seed, peaberries can have more caffeine and taste sweeter than other beans as well.

Generally only 5-10% of coffee cherries produce Peaberries - meaning it takes 10-20kg of coffee to produce 1 kg of Peaberry.

However, the only two kinds of Peaberry Coffee you'll generally encounter are from Tanzania in West Africa or Kona Coffee in Hawaii. You may even find some from other, well established coffee producing regions such as Brazil. Big, commercial operations. RARELY will you ever find small farmer Peaberry - let along from East Java - and certainly not beans aged for 9 years prior to roasting ! This is really connoisseur stuff, and it's only available in very small quantities. So small - that I bought the entire lot of it just to make sure we have a little stock of it - you'll only find this from Rising Phoenix !


Aged Coffee ??


Aged Coffee is NOT the same thing as Old Coffee. Far from it !

The Coffee Aging Process
Real aged coffee is carefully aged, usually for six months to three years. It is regularly monitored and the beans are rotated to distribute moisture and even out the aging process between coffee bags. This also prevents mold and rot from occurring. Coffee is usually aged at its origin.

So to be clear - the beans are aged green/unroasted - and then are roasted at the time for consumption. Not old stale roasted coffee ... aged like whiskey and then roasted fresh.

But Peaberry coffee is unique ... it can be aged for MUCH longer - and is generally only done by small family farmers in small quantities. Like ... 10-20kg at most. Too small to be a commercially available product - and so ONLY available to locals where it is grown. Thankfully, I'm working directly with these folks, and so this was offered to me and roasted special just for us !



Though Indonesian coffees are a staple offering and flavor profile in the coffee industry - when is the last time you had a small-batch, hand-harvested batch that truly benefitted the community it comes from?

This particular coffee is sun-dried on raised beds after being cleaned and sorted by flotation. After being dried, the cherries are rehydrated, depulped and then the beans are sun-dried again raised beds. Once the coffee is well dried, it is hulled and sorted by density before being packed and exported!


THE STORY


The past few years with Covid have dramatically impacted farming communities in rural developing nations. The guys I work with for sourcing me some of the diverse Agarwoods from Indonesia have been hurting, as their ability to move around has been severely restricted, and global economies impacted. This has left these guys impoverished beyond belief. The work they do for me and their other clients hasn't been enough to make ends meet ... so we've been working on a way to support them and their communities.

Around these guys I work with are various small family coffee plantations - also dramatically impacted as contracts with companies like Starbucks expired during Covid and were not renewed. I'm sure you can imagine how badly this would impact your business to have your largest client pull out during a global economic shut down.

We've been experimenting with a number of different materials and products - and this is the first I'll be releasing, ***the proceeds of which benefit directly the people collecting and roasting these select small-batch coffees for me***.

Your support of these efforts makes a world of difference in the lives of real people in Jember, Indonesia.



THE TASTE


Coffee from Argopuro has a very sharp aroma and a pleasantly soft taste like Banana and Brown Sugar and sometimes even has a Chocolate taste ... but this still falls short of describing the complexity. Fortunately - I found a tasting wheel which I’ve included in the listing photos to beat describe the complexity of this very unique coffee, roasted on Medium to help accentuate the nuances as best as possible.

It’s only recently that coffee from the Argopuro Mountain area has been introduced in parts of the world, and one of them is in the USA through me and my patterns on the ground there in Jember.

Remember, all proceeds from the sales of these artisan coffees benefit these guys directly. This is as Fair Trade as it gets !!

Materials: Vintage 2013 Peaberry Coffee,Argopuro Peaberry Coffee,Argopuro Mountain Peaberry Coffee,Fair Trade Plus