Kerinci, Natural

Cherry brandy, bubblegum & honeydew melon.

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A fledgling local importer is adding to the region's rich traditions with innovative processing. Smallholder growers have long produced distinctive coffees from the rich, volcanic soils of Indonesia's largest island, Sumatra. Founded in only 2018, Trijaya Agro Lestari has built strong bonds with smallholders across Sumatra to ensure consistency and quality. These growers live and farm on a plateau that sits at the foot of Mount Kerinci, one of the many active volcanoes in the Pacific Ring of Fire, a 40,000-kilometer horseshoe-shaped series of 452 volcanoes. Mount Kerinci’s historic eruptions have ensured the surrounding area is lush and verdant thanks to the deep supply of fertile volcanic soil, resulting in a unique, flavour-packed coffee from our close neighbours.

--- Suggested Recipe ~~~ In: 22g Out: 47.5g Time: 30sec Temp: 94.5°C

This natural-processed coffee from Trijaya Agro Lestari in Kerinci, Sumatra presents a compelling expression of the region's potential. Natural processing tends to emphasize fruit-forward profiles through extended skin contact during drying, and this lot delivers distinctly sweet, ripe aromatics: cherry brandy, bubblegum, and honeydew melon. The combination of stone fruit intensity with candy-like sweetness and bright melon notes is characteristic of well-executed natural coffees from Sumatra, where fermentation conditions can develop such layered fruit complexity.

Five Senses has roasted this coffee to highlight those inherent qualities. If you're exploring the range of sensory descriptors available in Indonesian coffees, this lot offers an accessible entry into how processing method shapes flavor development alongside origin characteristics.