SL.OW Coffee Roasters - Island Time | Indonesia

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Indonesia — Poktan Rahayu Tani Catimor & Typica (Natural)

Tastes Like — 🍇 Grape Soda • 🍐 Guava • 🌺 Hibiscus • 🍍 Tropical

DETAILS

• Producer: Poktan Rahayu Tani
• Origin: Indonesia
• Varietal: Catimor & Typica
• Process: Natural
• Roast: Filter
• Size: 200g

INTRO

Island Time — a naturally processed Indonesian filter from Poktan Rahayu Tani, showcasing the surprising range and expressive potential that Indonesian specialty coffee can deliver. Vivid, tropical, and effervescent in character — grape soda and guava sweetness, hibiscus florality, and a tropical depth that justifies the name entirely. In the cup: grape soda, guava, hibiscus, and tropical fruit.

THE PRODUCER

Poktan Rahayu Tani is an Indonesian producer group — "poktan" being a common abbreviation for a farmers group in Indonesia — cultivating Catimor and Typica across one of the country's diverse growing regions. Indonesia is one of the world's most significant coffee-producing countries, with a long history of Arabica cultivation across its volcanic islands. While Indonesian coffees are most commonly associated with earthy, full-bodied wet-hulled profiles, naturally processed lots from producer groups like Poktan Rahayu Tani demonstrate the extraordinary range and vivid fruit expressiveness the origin can achieve under careful whole-cherry drying — a very different and increasingly celebrated side of Indonesian specialty coffee.

Catimor — a hybrid of Timor Hybrid and Caturra developed for disease resistance and productivity — and Typica, one of the oldest and most historically significant Arabica varieties in the world, together provide the structural base that the natural process builds on so expressively in this lot.

THE PROCESS

The Natural process involves:

🍒 Hand-picking — Catimor and Typica cherries selectively harvested at peak ripeness 🔍 Sorting — Carefully sorted before drying ☀️ Raised-bed drying — Whole cherries dried on raised beds, allowing natural sugars and aromatic compounds to integrate fully into the bean throughout the drying period

The whole-fruit natural drying is the defining step — by leaving the cherry intact throughout, the process allows the natural sugars to develop the grape soda effervescence, guava tropical sweetness, hibiscus florality, and tropical depth that make this lot such a vivid and unexpected expression of Indonesian specialty coffee.

THE CUP

A vivid, tropical, and effervescent natural Indonesian filter from a producer group demonstrating the expressive potential of the origin at its most fruit-forward — grape soda and guava sweetness, hibiscus florality, and a lush tropical depth in a cup that is impossible to predict from the country and thoroughly enjoyable. Island Time in every sip.

Flavour Notes

🍇 Grape Soda 🍐 Guava 🌺 Hibiscus 🍍 Tropical