Although most Sumatra fans will still want to go to a strong medium or dark roast, lighter roasts but can be quite interesting with delicate, sweet and decently smoother features. Very clean for a Sumatra, which generally are all about the hefty more rustic and strong dark tones which usually takes darker roasts to see.

Tasting Notes: Surprising for a Sumatra, this cup is tasty from light to dark. Today, Lintong’s name or in the specialty industry often called Toba coffee is known in the coffee world as one of the most remarkable specialty coffee on the market.

The original varietal were not a fit for Lintong’s environments due to its weather, however later on through cross breeding with local varietal farmers have great success in them. Historically, coffee was brought to Indonesia from Ethiopia by the VOC (Dutch East India Company). That was first planted with coffee by the Dutch colony in 17th century. Located in the south of Toba Lake, Lintong Nihuta was one of the areas Lintong coffees are renowned for their more black tea incense spice notes, a cool compliment to the fuller body and darker more chocolate tones Sumatra provides. Brought to us direct by our buddies that produce the Red Badger, this is a stellar example of a more “spicy” Sumatra. This is a wonderful super traceable Indonesian Sumatra top lot (which is quite rare).

Sumatra lintong coffee beans