Location: Asman Gayo Mill, Aceh, Sumatra
Landed: November 2025
Altitude: 1,300 - 1,650 masl
Varietal: Ateng, Bor Bor, Catimor & Timor
Process: Natural
Flavour profile: Milk chocolate, strawberry yoghurt & elderflower
Category: Limited & Experimental
This week we are starting our fundraiser for Indonesia after the devastating flooding in late November and the continued awful consequences. We have been extremely privileged to work with the wonderful coffees and producers in the Aceh region of Sumatra for the last five years, and they are truly becoming a thoroughly loved staple of our offering. As I am sure you sadly know by now, in late November Indonesia was hit by disastrous flooding triggered by a rare cyclone. The deluge has killed many with already over 1,000 confirmed deaths, displaced hundreds of thousands across the island of Sumatra, with Aceh being the worst affected province. Widespread flooding and landslides have severed road access, electricity and communication with the infrastructure being terribly affected. Many residents still having no access to clean water, food, electricity or medical supplies.
We have been in correspondence with Cafe Imports who we work closely with on our lots from the Aceh region, and in particular the Asman Gayo Mill. We felt it necessary that we organised a fundraiser, and way of further supporting the incredible region we work with during these extremely troubling times. We are therefore setting up a fundraiser where all the profits made on this lot for the next two weeks 5th - 18th January - Pantan Musara - will be donated to support the producers and the people poorly affected by this disaster. Through discussions with Cafe Imports and from being in touch with Piero Cristiani who is their man on the ground , the proceeds will either be donated to the Speciality Coffee Association of Indonesia, or to a more targeted charity if a suitable one can be found in the Aceh region.
Please buy a bag of this lot and share this fundraiser with your friends, as we look to offer support to this badly affected region.
Please let us know if you have any questions on this donation, or if there is anything else we can help with.
(Disclaimer: The information above is correct to the best of our knowledge, and comes from conversations within our own supply chains and what has been publicly reported.)
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This is our third time returning to the Asman Gayo Mill, and our fifth year working with the wonderful naturals from the Aceh region of Sumatra. Back in 2022 when our lovely partner Cafe Imports visited us and left us some green samples we were taken aback and shocked at the quality and uniquely delicious profile, we had nothing quite like it on our offer list. As a result, each year we now return and are privileged to be able to share a lot with you from this unique coffee growing region. This year continues with what we have come to know and love, a full bodied complex coffee, filled with chocolate and sweet fruits, combined with a low acidity and smoothness that makes it so moreish. Add some florals and a unique lingering strawberry yoghurt note to this lot and you have the showstopper that is Pantan Musara. Enjoy!
PANTAN MUSARA
This coffee comes from a small mill in the Pegasing district of Takengon, in Sumatra's coffee-famous Aceh region ran by Cup of Excellence winner Asman Arianto. The Asman Gayo mill serves several small coffee producers within the Pantan Musara villages. Several years ago, these producers were dislocated from their homes and land because of a natural disaster, and they have rebuilt their lives and farms with a new focus on coffee. Unlike the vast majority of other Sumatran coffee receiving and processing centers, this mill is producing washed coffees, as well as naturals.
SUMATRA
Sumatra is a fascinating origin, unique even among its fellow Indonesian coffee-growing islands and areas. The vast diversity that has been found there is one of the exciting reasons that Cafe Imports are always happy to go back, and to face cupping after cupping after cupping of Sumatran coffee in search of something special. Through this rigorous process they have discovered producers and developed long-term partnerships with both individual farmer/collectors and cooperatives of various smallholders. They are also able to work with these partners to request (and pay more) more selective picking and processing, and they have undertaken several experiments with special-prep Wet-Hulling, to varying degrees of success.
(In partnership with Cafe Imports)
