It was a fun coffee to play around with, but not one we would necessarily enter in a competition. In short, we don't hate it, but we don't love it.

We have never had a honey processed Indonesian coffee here before, so this coffee was an experiment for us as well as for them. This coffee grows near the Kerinci Seblat National Park and the proceeds go towards preserving the park.

The Kerinci Valley is known as the 'rice bowl' of Sumatra because of all the crops grown there feed some seven million people.

The group has been working with local farmers since 2009 and providing them with seedlings - it distributed 50,000 to 38 farmers initially and two years later distributed nearly 180,000 seedlings to nearly 800 local farmers, who intercrop the coffee with cinnamon, tea, potatoes and vegetables.ĪgroTropic agronomists also work with the farmers on planting, pruning, harvesting and composting techniques, as well as on “alley cropping,” which encourages the planting of coffee trees two spread-arms’ width apart, to allow in light and air.These beans come from what would normally be considered Mandheling territory, but it's not grown by Mandehling people, so it's referred to as Kerinci Valley, which is an extremely fertile growing area with a population of around 300,000 people. The area is also a UNESCO World Heritage site, with more tigers than in all of Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and China combined!ĪgroTropic’s Sungai Lintang Coffee facility is at the foot of Mount Kerinici. The park’s 5,235 square miles of rainforest, volcanoes, mountains, wetlands and rivers are a boon to agriculture in the area, which 7 million people rely on. The Kerinci Valley is surrounded by Mount Kerinci, the Kerinci Highlands and the lush forests of Kerinci Seblat National Park.

Kerinci coffee bean