Dark chocolate · Molasses · Cedar · Sweet tobacco · Full syrupy body · Dark roast
We have never released a dark roast. This is our first.
Blue Batak grows in the Lintong highlands on the southern edge of Lake Toba, North Sumatra — named for the Batak people whose land it is. The name is literal: the beans arrive with a blue-green cast, the mark of Sumatra's wet-hulling, where the coffee is hulled while still damp and finished by hand in the sun. That is why a Sumatran cup drinks the way it does — heavy, syrupy, low in acid, more savoury than sweet.
We have taken it darker than anything we have ever put in a bag. Dark chocolate and molasses up front, cedar and sweet tobacco underneath, and a body you can almost chew.
It is not a bright coffee. If you want fruit and sparkle, this is not your month.
30 kilos. Roasted to order in NSW, this month only.