KEVENKA

Origin

• 🇮🇩 Indonesia

Tasting notes

Character

• Experimental
  50
• Funky
  40

Brothers Kevin & Kenny Soewondo started their coffee careers by opening a café in Surubaya, the largest city in East Java. As they grew they started a roastery. This piqued their interest in coffee processing and it wasn’t long before they were renting old rice processing and drying stations and using them to process their own green coffeeGreen coffeeUnroasted coffee seeds as they are traded and shipped. Roasters buy green and roast locally; 'green buying' is the sourcing side of the craft.. Buying cherry from farmers living and working around Mt Ijen. The majority of the farmers here are Madurese, their grandparents having come from the Madura island. The cherry once sorted via an optical sorter goes through a 2 day Anaerobic FermentationAnaerobic fermentationCherries or depulped seeds ferment in sealed, oxygen-free tanks. Produces intense, unusual flavors — cinnamon, bubblegum, boozy fruit — that divide opinion.. Cherries are dried, hulled then another round of sorting.