Lampung Robusta Coffee

Robusta Coffee Farmer in Lampung

Lampung is one of the largest robusta coffee producer in Indonesia, Lampung Coffee is well-known for its Robusta Coffee with the unique and strong robusta taste and flavor, strong body and very good aroma. Lampung coffee is of the Robusta coffees that are produced in the region of Lampung. Coffee lovers don’t only exist from Lampung, but people from outside such as Lampung, South Sumatra, Bengkulu, Jambi, to Javanese people are very fond of drinking coffee and its distinctive taste. When the holiday season arrives, usually Lampung coffee lovers spend their money on this special coffee for souvenirs.

Lampung coffee is largely produced from a coffee bean plantation in West Lampung, Central Lampung, and in Tanggamus, managed by the government, private sectors, and small business organizations. For small businesses owned by government organizations are mostly located in upland areas in Tanggamus.Lampung coffee has a characteristic color which is pitch black and slightly sour taste with a strong bitter flavor.

Civet Coffee Production

The luak, that’s a small catlike animal, gorges after dark on the most ripe, the best of our crop. It digests the fruit and expels the beans, which our farm people collect, wash, and roast, a real delicacy. Something about the natural fermentation that occurs in the luak’s stomach seems to make the difference.

Kopi is the Indonesian word for coffee. Luwak is a local name of the Asian Palm Civet in Sumatra.Palm civets are primarily frugivorous, feeding on berries and pulpy fruits such as figs and palms. Civets also eat small vertebrates, insects, ripe fruits and seeds.

Early production began when beans were gathered in the wild from where a civet would defecate as a means to mark its territory. On farms, civets are either caged or allowed to roam within defined boundaries.
Coffee berries are eaten by a civet for their fruit pulp. After spending about a day and a half in the civet's digestive tract the beans are then defecated in clumps, having kept their shape and still covered with some of the fleshy berry's inner layers.

Despite being in contact with faeces and pathogenic organisms, the beans contain negligible amounts of the enteric (pathogenic) organisms associated with feces. Moreover, the "cherry" or endocarp surrounding the bean is not completely digested by the luwak, and after being collected, the farmer performs thorough washing and removes the endocarp.

Sumatra is the world's largest regional producer of kopi luwak. Sumatran civet coffee beans are mostly an early arabica variety cultivated in the Indonesian archipelago since the 17th century. The major Sumatran kopi luwak production area is in Lampung, Bengkulu and Aceh especially the Gayo region, Takengon.