Uwu 646 — Anaerobic Natural

ID-FL-002
Region : Uwu Village, Manggarai, Flores, Indonesia
Altitude: 1500-1700 MASL
Varietal: Kartika
Process: Anaerobic Natural
Profile: Strawberry, Guava, Candy-like Sweetness
Harvest Year: November 2023
 
Andre Hamboer is the founder of the processing facility, Tuang, where all the magic happens. Tuang translates to 'Pour' in Indonesia and the logo represents the traditional house infrastructure built in the area. Growing up, Andre was always exposed to coffee brought home by his father. He fancied how coffee is produced and processed and finally took a turn in the coffee industry.
 
In 2014, Andre started to establish Tuang in his hometown, Manggarai, Flores, alongside his fellow farmers in the region. Andre Established a farmer's group to tackle the problem of intermediaries, baked in every region of Ruteng due to lacking road infrastructure in the region. Through this workaround, Andre helped out farmers fetch better cherry prices and cut intermediaries out of the coffee supply chain.
 
Intermediaries in the farm regions spread all across Indonesia are undoubtedly very obvious and seen very clearly in the Indonesian coffee industry. These intermediaries are not lifting up to a high standard, but instead taking advantage of lowballing and exploiting farmers with very huge and nasty bargains.
 
Through Andre's work, farmers in the region are given the chance to produce high-quality cherries, while getting paid a very much higher and fair price. He initiated a payment program for farmers, buying their coffee cherries upfront before harvest season, to nurture, develop, and invest in the best techniques and facilities for their coffee plantation.
 
From then on, he and his team build processing facilities and process coffee cherries into high-quality green coffee beans in the lower region of Manggarai, Ruteng. This year's harvest was not the best, with lower yield and inflating prices of cherries. For Andre, focusing on specialty is one way to get around high cherry prices. Quality speaks for itself and furthermore, value chains are cut shorter through the direct trade of cherries with the farmers.
 
Nowadays, through the work he has done and every hand involved in the team, Tuang is growing with superb specialty coffee beans exquisitely produced and processed in the region of Manggarai, Flores.
 
This lot was processed in an anaerobic environment and inoculated with local yeast starters to bring out amazing fruit punch qualities and superbly amazing complexity on a Kartika varietal.⁠ Inoculation allows this coffee to flourish, getting those fruity esters within the cherries.
 
This coffee is carefully sorted by a lot of hardworking women as shown in the right image, working constantly for hours to ensure the finest cup quality. Compared to 22/23, this harvest season resulted in a crop with crazy high sweetness, complexity, and a more rounded body!