Jan 03rd, 2009: Kopi Mawar Singaraja Visit

January 3rd, 2009. Early morning, we are heading to the coffee plantation in Bali. The area is called Singaraja. The distant is about 3 hrs drive from Denpasar.
Once we reach there, we went to on of the traditional coffee roaster, called "Kopi Mawar". This "Kopi Mawar" is known by the local people for the finest traditional local coffee taste. The roasting process is very traditional and they mixed the bean between Arabica and Robusta.



For this Kopi Mawar, they buy the green bean from the plantation which delivered to them daily. Because this is a home roaster, it only can roast up to 40kgs daily and sold out daily. After the roasting, some of the buyer is local traditional coffee shop. They always sell the fresh grind coffee powder. This is traditional coffee seller.




















We also bought some of the roasted bean and green bean from "Kopi Mawar" for tasting purpose and our traditional coffee research. The result of the tasting and roasting will posted on the next blog.

Jan 02nd, 2009: Kintamani Visit

We traveled to Bali early this year to visit some of the coffee maker area. On Jan 2nd, we went to one of the most popular agriculture tourism place. The place is in Kintamani area which is the volcano high land in Bali. On the spot they traditionally roast the coffee using the frying-pan.

This method of roasting coffee is consider as the most traditional way and yet still being used in this tourism agriculture site to produce the coffee and sell it to tourist. They call it as Authentic Bali Coffee.

Actually when we was there, we experience the taste of this coffee on the spot. They also provided other taster of their product like Cocoa, Ginger Coffee, Lemon Grass tea. As we taste their authentic roasted coffee, the aroma was not very strong, and acidity level also low.

One of the attraction on this site is while you tasting the coffee you also can feel the nature around you. The location is perfect for relaxing and chit-chatting while tasting the coffee they provided. On the so-called forest, they also have some coffee tree.

For sure the coffee fruit you see above was still young and still have a way to go for to grow until the coffee can be harvested.

It was a nice place to have the coffee.

First Posting

This blog was created on 11 Jan 2009 and still under construction

Come again later to view our research in coffee