👆Visits To Coffee Farmers And Millers Around Aceh Sumatra


I'm so surprised they're doing all this
weed trimming around the coffee here which is fantastic
so this tree shows the way they trim the
tops here in order to keep them short
and sometimes to open up a space for air
in the middle but found some of the
varieties they're growing here that
weren't trimmed and they get really tall
so real mix here we have it's called Tim
Tim which is pure team or hybrid cut
team or attain super and run boom which
is also called Abyssinia 7 which is sort
of descended from old type so they're
telling me this is octane super
and this one here is around boom or
Abyssinia seven like Tim Tim it has a
long pointed leaf and sometimes you can
see this like fruit but
look at that Lee crazy but Daniel says
they thinks it's probably it's been
crossed over time with Tim Tim whoa
really unique shape and such we collect
some cherries to grow they get in
California with that
whoo there's a lot of tim-tim here that
this crazy stuff
does that look crazy to you so it looks
crazy to me that's like coffee the size
of a finger this is called abbysinia 3
here a B 3 locally and you know even on
a tree like this that has this amazing
unusual long being not all that cherries
doing this is like picking out some that
are the biggest in this this is what we
find in them
Tim Tim also has a long being on some of
the trees although we pulled out some
samples that were very round
so this is a coffee processing facility
for hauling and drying coffee right in
tucking downtown
gotcha Tenga notch it and North's it's
not North Sumatra Itachi and this is
where all the guy yo coffees come from
here's the coffee that's been bought
from collectors as wet parchment being
dried down before wet hauling because it
came in too wet and then over there's
the green bean after wet hauling and
then they prepare the coffee over in
that room and handpick it there's some
small Lots
this is their hauler a lot of times
these are runoff truck engines because
they have so much friction they require
a ton of power and you know this looks
like that's a truck motor usually I've
seen him on on a pickup truck motors but
that's this is this is a little small
truck engine it's like a four cylinder
very standard engine Wow you can see
here this is like it's all homemade
that's some thick rebar colors usually
looking at a tune you can see by the
length of it from end to end that that's
the path the coffee travels and requires
a ton of friction to pull that parchment
layer off of the off of the green bean
when it's still adhered to it when it's
not dry and shrunken down this place
this beautiful colors and stuff yeah
this thing's huge
this is actually usually these are like
kind of homemade but this has a kind of
yes if we opened up with this subway to
see this huge friction bar in here and
you can even tell by the size of the
belts and the pulleys how much power
we're talking about so let's go see is
this la boo sister super warm
yeah into super processes when they hold
the coffee right after drying so still
hot oh really comes out with silver skin
still on it it's prettier and it turns a
slightly different color I know that I
know that I've seen coffees that you
know definitely look a lot different
with less silver skin but that's a
really good explanation so it comes off
the patio warm they haul it right away
wow really unique something you never
see anywhere else
this is something you don't see a lot in
the world of coffee the first time you
see it it's very confusing
I'll explain it's not that this is green
bean obviously in coffee that's been wet
hauled and is dried a little bit and
over here this is lava this is green
coffee it has just been wet hauled and
it's still like white see the
a little difference generally between
these two not hand-picked yet not
density soared and so there's a lot of
defects but still that's not what's
crazy here what's crazy if you've been
to a lot of coffee processing is to see
green bean out in the sun drying because
look here this is coffee with a
parchment layer on hello
everywhere else you'll see coffee
drawing with parchment layer I'll never
see green being drying so this is what's
unique about wet hauling and unique
about Sumatra and kind of scary too
because the green coffee is just out
naked without its parchment layer anyway
this is Lois which is a whole different
Cobblepot area in Aceh a guy oh it's a
newer area that we've been buying some
coffee from
it's been called louis c.k l ue s this
guy Oh Louis kind of a nauseating Drive
from a very windy road here from tucking
down the main town where most of the
coffee is traded in a chit Tinga on lake
table are it's this sort of standard
coffee area and we're out way far away
from that fairly far away from that
because motors here
hoping the coffee
to take her
loading and s doing
welcome fomentation underwater
trying a covered drawing that he's
building more here so and all this is
funded by selling in the local market to
Java Jakarta upon doing other places in
Java so you know people are getting
really good prices for quality coffee
here he's only focused on on specialty
is he doing whitey coffee huh no maybe
no way maybe like some naturals
fully natural you can find part
semi-natural 50%
this is a Santos natural drawing
facility he has a separate washed one we
built these three and a half years ago
and hasn't even changed the plastic so
it's been pretty durable and you see
like this combined split bamboo with a
metal frame metal framework drawing beds
I'm interested because there isn't a vent on the roof
till that moisture out somehow or
something controllable which I
understand in the kind of second
generation of solar dryers is is kind of
seen as desirable because what you get
is a bunch of condensation inside in the
morning because your moisture isn't
allowed to sort of escape along with the
heat
a little bit of washed here anyway some
of these Lots he had some trouble
because some bad weather just wasn't
getting hot in here in drawing bit feels
quite dry in here now this was his first
washing facility - nice design not too
high so keeps the heat this is what it
really like I think it's super
innovative sort of micro lot washer and
dryer for coffee amazing next level and also
a really cool farm Huck Bucky and guy
yolo Asst ed Lewis James I'll just start
it up it's beautiful though
I was noticing you know just how the
shade trees and the trees that were
farmed Hirogen they are falling and
they're just left here and then you have
all this sort of decay and microorganism
and even coffee growing it's falling on it on a log
you see like this is really nice for
just homes homes for microorganisms
anyway these gross different types of
long berry types are on bloom just
called Abyssinia seven interesting here
too a lot of these grasshoppers but you can't really be good
well certainly looks healthy so I think
he just steals the kinda parent just everywhere
also a lot of large spiders that create
webs between trees you kind of have to
walk watch ah another my like two inches
to three inches wide don't want to run
those run into those with my face but
those are probably consuming these
grasshoppers but what a beautiful place
this is the bronze leaf or um boom type
so well-managed I think IJ has some of
the best to manage coffees through the
shade trees and he very large to meter
spacing between plants they look very
healthy it's not organic here he does
some spraying who told me but it's very
localized just just on problem trees and
problem areas no blanket spraying
and you can see all the weed control is
just machetes just chopping everything
he's here pulling off a lot of the extra
branches from the trees as they kind of
over produce leaves you have to keep the
leaves down here somewhere else where
you know with this cut this umbrella cut
just your things there to stump the tree
and pull and then fold it over here and
then he'll come and they'll just break
off all these on the top and there's the
guy who actually uses a brush and
brushes off in these plants but you
don't want any of these in the top to
grow all this short and open to the air
coolers my first trip to this area of Guyo a bocce
not super high altitude here but been
getting some nice coffees from here so
wanted to come see what more about it
this is another nice they call these
domes sometimes they're called parabolas
but they're for drawing and given that
this is the weather today but you can
actually dry coffee continue processing
I've explained to people my feeling on
this is is that coffee is if coffee was
produced in a factory you'd have you
know it was like a manufactured item
you'd have power and you couldn't
function without power and then coffee
drawing system the power is often the
Sun so in a sense a lot of times your
power is out and what building something
like this does is it takes control of that
and lets you have power again so you can
continue to process coffee even because
you collect heat even if it was raining
sometimes you come in these and they
were really warm so they cost money
they're less labor efficient and a patio
etc but they keep your coffee factory
functioning so these are they're nicely
built and you know I've heard these last
four or five even eight years I was at
one yesterday the plastic lasts that long
oh hello what are you doing there so
they're gonna fire up this bad boy be
funny is a bad girl one if they're gonna
fire up this bad girl to demonstrate dry
hauling and dry hauling starts with a
big diesel in this case six-cylinder he
told me as a foo so Japanese motor just
incredible amount of power belts here I
won't be standing here and they start
this up and then the requires a lot of
friction there so really the thing is
the length of this from side to side is
quite long the coffee travels that
length and yeah
the handle there's actually a clutch
yeah yeah yeah
so this is the rage for coffee being
sold to like fancy stores in Jakarta how
does coffee cherry so this is called
whiny coffee and it's cherry that's been
put in sealed bags for what some call
carbonic maceration the outgassing and
everything from the cherries sort of
stewing and rotting so you know to some
degree initially I still see unripe
green and then you could after drying
the cherry you can produce this anyways
you can dry it you can pulpit and make
wet holds you could even make dry dry
holds like wash style coffee we buy some
coffee from here but not US government
and yeah this is it's basically when
I've tasted it it's a pure fermented
coffee
you know fermented defect coffee to to
our you know tastes any preference and
training but that's you know you can
throw all that out the window if this is
what you like but it's it's highly sort
of vinegar type fruit flavor
and but they pay really well for it so
it's very - coffee
fashion coffee fashion this was a really
cool thing that's happened in Indonesia
is this sort of you know not just whiny
coffee but just this thing where
producers and people process and coffee
and farmers are hooked up with local
Roasters in Jakarta mainly and I'm doing
a lot of it is in Java but here in tuk
and gone there's just coffee shops and
Coffee Roasters everywhere and it's
really quite a revolution and what
they're doing is making you know custom
batches you know literally the front of
this shop there's the roaster and
they're roasting coffee we're doing a
little cupping and here in the back
they're processing cherry they're drying
coffee right in the middle of octagon
town my backyard over here is a is uh
they've got a parchment hauler
they have pulper over here mounted on
wheels they've got some coffee in here
sort of initial shade drawing so I find
this really exciting you know no matter
if I did some of the coffee's they do
isn't to my taste to some of the coffees
they do are definitely and we
got some some really cool lots here and
the neatest thing for me is like this a
lot of the things that we talk about in
coffee in there the United States for
this global product and connecting with
farmers and not really knowing if
farmers are being paid fairly their
percentage of what the final retail
price is everything - the sort of exotic
ism of coffee of you know that tasting
coffees from far away and what our
romance is about the labor and the
conditions of that the coffee estate
different sort of issues of fairness in
the economy she's about class issues
about consumption in the global North
consuming raw products from the global
South this what we're seeing right here
subverts all of that and that it just is
like a farmers market product this is
like going to the farmers market and I
don't know Marin I don't know somewhere
Berkeley and buying the tomatoes that
somebody who drove in from town produced
so and this is this is direct trade it
makes all the thing that we say oh we
farm gate direct trade this is what you
do makes it look like basically
because you have this huge advantage it
doesn't have to be shipped it doesn't
have to go to an exporter nobody
speculates on it there's no interaction
with a global coffee exchange or the
base price of the New York see this is
just this is a whole different thing
a whole different product in a way so I
find it really exciting local
consumption to me
and the community of people around it
it's truly a community last night
they're roasting samples here and Daniel
came roasting and they had a everybody
everybody came they're not competitors
they're uh you know first it started
with uh with like a couple people here
and then more came and working and then
you had 15 people here and they're
making coffee and drinking and roasting
samples and saying let's try this let's
try that this is the front of their shop
here no they retail the coffee right out
front get the full value this is the
school little sample roaster it's made
in Indonesia make their own Roasters of
their little packaging and put them here
roasting coffee
he's got his little daughter they're
hanging out in the front his shop
you know if you care about coffee and
the issues about it this this is
gives me a lot of energy just being
around in senior