A brand new coffee for us and a current favorite. Full bodied, rich, sweet and clean. Complex and nuanced.

This is an estate-grown coffee from Aceh Province, Sumatra’s famous and most prolific for specialty wet-hulled profiles. Unlike most coffee in the area, which is traditionally grown by hundreds of smaller farmers and gradually consolidated through processing and milling, Central Sumatera Coffee operates a 100-hectare estate right in Bener Meriah regency, where they can control the genetics, harvesting, and post-harvest techniques to perfection. This lot is better sorted than most of its peers from the area, and sweeter and cleaner in the cup, while still exhibiting all the unique heft and minerality of a traditional wet hull processing style.  

Central Sumatera Coffee (CSC) is a young group, with young leadership. It was originally founded in 2015 by Enzo Sauqi Hutabarat, an urban university student. Aware of the growing demand across greater Indonesia for Sumatra’s best coffees, he gravitated toward Aceh as a culture and potential business environment. Until 2020 CSC only sold coffee domestically, but starting in 2021 they began to export as well, selling bits of coffee to the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and finally, in 2024, the United States, via Royal Coffee, for the first time.