Please welcome our newest coffee to our selection! The Timor Maubesse Fair Trade Organic.
If you have never heard of Timor before, don’t stress it. Timor is a small Southeastern island of Indonesia. As far as geography with our current offerings go, Timor is in between Sumatra and Papau New Guinea and the island weighs in around 12,000 sq miles. Within that space, there are over 7,000 coffee farmers of the Organic Timor. These farmers have teamed up to create 494 small scale farmer groups and 16 co-ops within the country. We are glad to be a part of it by supporting the small farmers a Fair Trade wage.
This particular coffee is grown from altitudes of 800 to 1,500 meters above sea level and OCIA certified as shade grown. And if you read David King’s latest blog on coffee processing, its a bit more understandable when I say this is a wet process coffee that is sun dried. The roasted coffee has a spicy, herbal cup with a good acidity and excellent body. This is really a unique coffee from a very unique country of origin that I have enjoyed a lot this past week.
We have added this coffee to our offerings on our Bear Creek Coffee Online Store if you would like to try it out. [Timor Maubesse FTO]
Matt
*Thanks to John at Royal Coffee for all of the info*
