
Sumatra Lychee Co-Ferment - Washed - Light Roast
This is an estate-grown coffee from Aceh Province, Sumatra’s most famous and prolific for specialty wet-hulled profiles. Unlike most coffee in the area, which is traditionally grown by hundreds of smaller farmers and gradually consolidated through processing, collection, and milling, Central Sumatera Coffee operates a 100-hectare estate right in Bener Meriah regency, where they can control the genetics, harvesting, and post-harvest techniques to perfection. This is a super unique processing style that uses anaerobic fermentation, yeast inoculation and a co-fermentation with powdered dried fruit to achieve a totally distinct, heavily flavored coffee with perfume like fragrances and sweet, fresh, lychee fruit. After picking, the cherry was depulped and fermented anaerobically in sealed containers with the addition of Lallemand Saccharomyces cerivisiae, for a total of 48 hours. Once the first fermentation cycle was complete, the containers were opened, dried lychee fruit powder was