Our featured coffee for November is a punchy and vibrant wet-hulled coffee from the Kintamani highlands of Bali. It is a wonderfully distinct coffee that has the typical full body and earthiness traditionally found in coffees from Indonesia. The first half of the cup is complex with notes of chocolate cake, pomegranate, and subtle ginger turmeric spice all hitting right at the beginning of the cup. Once you get to the middle, the sweeter fruit and chocolate notes continue and the spice notes fade away. The finish is full and long with honey and chocolate notes lingering on the palate. 

Roast Color: Medium-Dark

Cupping Notes: Chocolate Cake, Pomegranate, Ginger Turmeric Spice 

About the coffee of the month: We feature a new coffee every month. This allows us to explore more of the world of coffee outside of our normal offerings. It is available this month only, while supplies last. 

Story: Bali Blue Moon is named after the hallmark bluish hue of the bean produced from the wet-hulling process called Giling Basah in the Indonesian language. The bulk of Bali’s coffee production comes from small family-owned farms where each producer uses a few acres to cultivate coffee along with citrus trees in the volcanic soils of Mount Agung’s Kintamani highlands. They carefully sort their harvested cherries before depulping and fermenting overnight with their own micro-mills. Then the coffee is washed and laid out on patios to shed the excess water from the coffee parchment. Next the coffee takes a detour from the conventional path of processing in other origins, wherein, the coffee parchment is removed while the coffee still has a high moisture content. This wet-hulling process or Giling Basah leaves the coffee bean exposed while drying on patios to a moisture percentage acceptable for export and gives the beans their distinct bluish color.