SU-EX-003 — Hendra Maulizar (Abbysinia)
ID-SU-EX-003
Region: Pegasing, Takengon, Aceh, Sumatra
Altitude: 1700 MASL
Varietal: Abbysinia
Process: Natural
Profile: Raspberry, White Chocolate, Dried Fruits
Harvest Year: November 2023
Hendra Maulizar has been the pioneer of Indonesian specialty coffee processing. His dad, Hamdan, moved to Aceh in 2006 and started growing coffee. This sparked the idea of Hendra to start growing coffee in 2010.
The land started from 1 hectare and now reaches up to 10 hectares with 40 tonnes of coffee produced in the washing station. Hendra and his family started to grow their farm and began to invest in post-harvesting facilities and managed to build a wet mill, gravitational washing channels, and raised beds to dry the coffee.
Out of his 40 hectares of land, he also partnered with 70 local farmer families to help him support producing cherries for him to process.
Hendra is now experimenting with 8-10 different processing methods and currently experimenting and started a nursery to grow the Abbysinia varietal. This is a product of the experiment and this coffee tasted clean, crisp, and amazing!
We started working with Hendra to finally represent one of the best coffee Indonesia has to offer, with his coffee being in 7th place in Indonesia's Cup of Excellence in 2021.
Abyssinia, or Coffea Abyssinia, is one of the coffee varieties that originated in Ethiopia. Hendra first cultivated the Abyssinia varietals back in 2006 and now continuously breeds this variety onwards.
Out of all the wet-hulled process that is common to the region of Sumatra, you can thank both father and Son, Drs. Hamdan and Hendra Maulizar, for making astonishing naturally processed coffees for us to experience. This is a unique lot of a single variety, the Abyssinia. This coffee is very expressive, with fruit notes of raspberry and red apple. The presence of pronounced fruit notes is also balanced out with clean cup and a very sweet white chocolate aftertaste.
A lot has been done over the years of his life experimenting and yet his endless spirit of bringing the best coffee makes him never settle for less.
