Great mountain. Great coffee!
Our Coffee
Kopi Semeru (Mount Semeru Coffee) is a high-quality, single-origin, specialty coffee, sourced directly from family-owned farms around Mount Semeru in East Java, Indonesia. Our beans are sorted by hand twice before roasting, and then again before packaging, to ensure the highest quality.
The first thing you will notice about Kopi Semeru is a crisp malt aroma, enticing you in to a wonderful sweet-tasting mouthful. This is a smooth and mild coffee, with the flavour of molasses, low in acidity and offering a moderate caffeine content.
Kopi Semeru is selling as a single 250g (8.8oz) pack featuring a built-in one-way air valve and a seam-to-seam ziplock seal to maintain freshness and flavour. Inside are our expertly-roasted whole coffee beans, roasted medium-dark. For other roast types, and ground coffee, please contact us – we will do our best to help!
How do we drink it?
In the traditional Javanese village way, beans are roasted medium-dark, pulverised into a fine powder, and heaped directly into the cup with sugar. Whilst a medium-dark roast does remove some of the natural sweetness of the coffee, it will instead deliver a magically smooth cup that is now very low in acid.
Anyone who loves their coffee served in the Greek / Turkish / Middle-eastern way will find that Kopi Semeru yields a very special flavour. Served black and sweet, Kopi Semeru yields truly surprising results – yes, there will be sludge at the bottom, but a special kind of sludge that tastes like dark chocolate. Give it a try!
Kopi Semeru: Great mountain. Great coffee!
Mount Semeru
The tallest peak on the magical island of Java, this 3,676 metre active volcano towers above the surrounding foothills on its southern slopes, where our coffee is grown. To the north, Mount Semeru is a prominent feature of the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park – where intrepid travellers are treated to the spectacular sight of several simmering volcanic peaks.
Indeed it was this series of peaks that inspired the ancient Javanese to name the tallest of them as Mount Semeru. Before Arab traders first brought both Islam and coffee to Indonesia, the Javanese people followed a mix of Hindu, Buddhist and animist beliefs. In Hindu and Buddhist cosmology, Semeru is a sacred mountain with five peaks – and the centre of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes.
Optimal Coffee Growing Climate
First-time visitors to the area can experience heaven and hell in one day. To the north of Mount Semeru the landscapes are barren and desolate, but to the south the scenery is verdant and green.
Countless millennia of eruptions from the sacred peaks have blessed the southern slopes with rich volcanic soil, watered by over 2,000 mm of rainfall annually. At altitudes over 600 metres (2,000 feet) above sea level, this mountain climate is beautifully mild all year round, averaging 22 °C. And on the foothills of this holy mountain, on this fertile agricultural land, grows some of Java’s most heavenly coffee, lovingly tended by generations of Javanese farming families.
Kopi Semeru: Great mountain. Great coffee!
For enquiries, and to order Kopi Semeru, please contact us.