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Aged Sumatra Lintong - Vintage 2004
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Our Price: $12.95
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| Coffee Roast: |
Light |
| Body: |
Medium |
| Characteristics: |
Spicy, Herbal |
Accolades
Background Info
During centuries past when coffee was still brought into consuming countries by sailboats, the long journey from Sumatra took months. The fresh coffees stored in the hull of these vessels were exposed to very moist, humid, and warm conditions. The effect this had on the coffee was that it softened the cup and created a syrupy body as well as altering the appearance of the raw coffee. As shipping times and conditions changed in the last century, this prolonged tropical exposure no longer occurred and the coffees began to taste different. The aging process was created to replicate the taste of Sumatran coffees of the past. Aging requires the coffee be warehoused at the right humidity, turned frequently, and protected from mildew and fungi. Otherwise the result is just old flat cardboard tasting coffee. When well executed using quality coffees this process makes for a mellow heavy bodied cup that is a unique treat. Our Aged Sumatra was harvested in late 2004. Often times aged coffee are produced from low quality highly defective coffees. Not so with this aged Lintong. This phenomenal lot is processed with great care to a degree virtually unheard of in Sumatra. Coffee is dried on raised screens and then carefully sorted and screened leaving only the largest, 18/64th in. and above, defect free beans.
Roastmaster Comments by R. Miguel Meza
An incomparable aged coffee. All of the brightness, green peeper, spice and sweetness of a great Lintong coffee plus the added savory complexity and buttery finish of the best aged coffees. An absolute treat for Sumatra lovers.
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Coffee Snob - Minneapolis, MN
Aged Lintong
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| Wow. This coffee is amazingly complex. Other aged coffees pale in comparison. The cup offers passion fruit and grilled pinapple with butterscotch and savory, broth-like characteristics, supported by firm acidity and a heavy, syrupy body. No old, baggy, moth-ball flavors here as in other aged coffees. Quite possibly the best aged coffee in the world right now. |
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BobS - New Hampshire
Aged Sumatra Lintong
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| What a fabulously refreshing coffee. I have always enjoyed good Sumatrans, but did not know what to expect from an "aged" one. Simply outstanding and fantastic in its simplicity, yet with a world of complexity beneath the surface. You must try some of this coffee! |
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Van55 - Virginia
Aged Sumatra Lintong
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| I am very new to home roasting single source coffees. Based on my thorough enjoyment of recent Lake Tawar Lintong and a review of these aged beans at coffeecuppers.com, I sprang for a couple pounds of the 2004 vintage Sumatra Lintong. Roasted to just the start of second crack in a FreshRoast+8, these beans delivered a delicious cup of bright, winey, fruity, naturally sweet flavors with an uncommonly long finish on the palate. Wonderful! |
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Mike - Tucson, AZ
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| This coffee was enjoyable. I was surprised at how mellow it tasted compared to other aged coffees I have had. I would buy it again. |
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