Papua New Guinea – Jiwaka Arufa – Natural Processed

Burman Coffee Traders

Details

Origin

Papua New Guinea

Process

Natural

Roast Suitability

Description

Natural Processed coffees are very different from washed processed. Fruity ferment like tones will dominate the cup. Sweet, slightly floral with some citric acidity. This is a wild old world example of a natural, similar to Bali Kintamani Natural but with more acidity upfront. This year is amazing clean for a PNG natural, although there is no missing its old world roots, you can expect a clean, balanced and decently fruit forward cup. From its earliest introduction to present day, the arabica gene stock in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is considered to be one of the country’s strongest natural assets, not to mention one of the best-preserved Typica lineage variety sets in the world. And these delicate genetics clearly thrive in PNG’s highlands, which are some of the most virgin and fertile on the planet. Between World Wars I and II, Australian settlers would establish more and more large coffee estates across the Eastern, Chimbu, Jiwaka, and Western highland provinces. As commercial exports ramped up, more indigenous Papuans would adopt coffee as a cash crop alongside their traditional economies, in most cases processing at home and selling humid parchment to traveling collectors. For hundreds of thousands of rural farmers coffee would be, and still is, the very first and only source of western currency. To this day expert-level cultivation knowledge largely remains in the possession and experience of PNG’s plantation owners. Remote smallholder coffee tends to fall short of its potential, receiving only scarce quality interventions from ambitious millers and exporters. Tasting Notes: It yields an excellent cup at any roast level, great from light to dark, Our favorite roast point was a nice medium roast, best balance of tones and very easy drinking. The aroma is distinctly fruity and complex adding wonderfully to the tastes. A lighter roast presents a sweeter cup, more dominate fruity/floral notes. A fuller body true to its PNG roots, a more pronounced citrus acidity, acco