Losari Coffee

Coffee is the second most popular drink after water and the most widely used product after oil. Have you ever thought of growing your own coffee tree ? You need to be patience to grow your own coffee tree. It will take 4 to 5 years before you can harvest your first beans from your very own coffee plant.

I have the opportunity to visit Losari Coffee Plantation in a highland of Central Java. The plantation produces high-quality robusta coffee beans every year. These beans are the earthy Indonesian that are wet processed.

 The organic coffees are being grown, picked and sun dried here. At the coffee shed, the plantation workers are roasting and grinding the coffee beans folllowing Javanese traditional processing techniques using traditional equipments. When it comes to great flavor, coffee chemistry boils down to roasting and brewing. During roasting, oil locked inside the beans begins to emerge at around 400 degrees. The more oil, the stronger the flavor. Caffeine content goes up as the water spends more time in contact with the grounds, so regular coffee often has more of it than espresso or cappuccino. Darker roasts also yield more caffeine.  

 

"Before the coffee beans being harvest, you can enjoy the dark shiny green leaves and fragrant white flowers of this very unique, ornamental plant.When it is in bloom, the coffee tree is covered with 30,000 white flowers which begin to develop into fruit after 24 - 36 hours. A coffee tree can flower eight times in any one year - depending on rainfall. The coffee cherries turn from yellow to orange and then bright red, 6 - 8 months after flowering."
via Justaboutcoffe.

"Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical." Jonathan Swift

"Coffee is the common man’s gold, and like gold it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility." Sheikh ‘Abd-al-Kadir who wrote the earliest known history of coffee manuscript in 1588