Why is Sumatran coffee so special

What makes Sumatran coffee special?  The soils, the sun,  the rain.  Everything makes it different.  The very unique and the very special thing about Sumatra is the taste.   Very low acidity and having a nice earthy flavor, a nice chocolaty flavor in the coffee.

And its a rarity in the world of coffee. Its very unusual that beans are hulled wet.  Only in Sumatra and Sulawesi that this takes places. And its very difficult.

Once the parchment skins off, the moisture of the green bean is about 35 percent. We want to bring it down to slightly below 12 percent, around 11.8, 11.7. And that takes three full days of sunshine. It's continually being raked.

Theyve tried implementing the same process in other parts of the world with very similar varieties, and the quality has not been the same. With the coffees that were buying, its the Sumatran process that you find in this part of the world  that makes Sumatran coffee special. Its the perfect storm to make that kind of coffee..