Natanael Charis - Lini S795- Sigararutang - Catura - Ateng Super [carbonic maceration]

Natanael Charis - Lini S795- Sigararutang - Catura - Ateng Super [carbonic maceration]

This coffee is crazy, syrupy, funky, with flavours of cherry, mango, raspberry, passionfruit……😵💫

Roasted 24 FEB 2026
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    About the farmer(s)

    Natanael Charis - Lini S795- Sigararutang - Catura - Ateng Super - lot 3 [carbonic maceration] — Java

    This coffee was grown in West Java in rich volcanic soil on the slopes of Mt Papandayan. The mornings are misty & cool, the afternoons warm & sunny. The coffee cherries are tested for ripeness using a refractometer to measure sugar content. When ripe, the cherries are harvested, taken to the washing station, floated in a water tank to select the most dense coffee, then the cherries undergo "thermal shock' held in a drying dome at 65 degrees, after 'thermal shock' the cherries are re-hydrated & selected yeasts are added to kick-start fermentation. The cherries are then pulped & put in carbonic maceration tanks along with red wine yeast, CO2 is added every 3 hours for 36 hours. Once fermentation is complete the coffee is 'wet hulled' & dried at 45 degrees until the moisture reaches 13%. Coffee beans are then gravity sorted to select the most dense coffee & then colour sorted to remove defective beans.

    • region Mt. Papandayan, Java
    • farm/farmer Natcha
    • altitude 1450 meters
    • crop 2025
    • cultivar Lini S595, Sigararutang, Catura, Ateng Super
    • process Carbonic Maceration

    S795 was bred by Indian botanists in 1946. It is a cross between S288 [a natural hybrid of Liberica & Arabica] & Kent [an old Typica variety from India]. Sigararutang was discovered by a farmer called Tengku Ibrahim Aman Samsir. He noticed that one coffee plant was different to the others he had planted. It was a small plant, and had only been in the ground for two years, but it already produced lots of cherries. It was noticeably different to his other coffee plants which took three years to flower. Tengku Ibrahim started propagating this one plant, which he thought of as a ‘super varietal’, planting lots of this varietal in the same field. Farmers working around him started noticing the ‘super varietal’ and asked for seeds and plants. Catura, a mutation of Bourbon discovered in Brasil in 1937. The plant is a dwarf so it can be planted close together resulting in more production per hectare. Caturra has good flavour characteristics but is susceptible to disease. Ateng Super is a selection from one dwarf Catimor tree  that produced well. Found in Kecamatan Silih Narah. It's name is short for Aceh Tengah - the regency of Lake Takengon. 

    Dried coffee cherries at the Natcha wet-mill.

    Coffee cherries drying on raised beds.