Pegasing - Thermal Shock Washed

by Black & White

MEET THE PRODUCERS | Hamdan and Hendra Maulizar are the father-son duo behind Pegasing Washing Station, a wet mill which collects and processes coffee from about 70 smallholders in the Pegasing area of Indonesia. Hamdan moved his family to Pegasing in 2006 and started growing coffee straightaway. Four years later, his son came on board and quickly began experimenting with washed coffees and other processing methods - a feat which was altogether uncommon in an area known for rolling out conventional wet hulled coffees. Today, Hendra has created what's been deemed "an island of specialty experimentally processed coffee" in a sea of conventionally processed cups. TRUST THE PROCESS | Hendra employs 8-10 different processes at the wet mill and often decides which one to use on a particular lot based on the weather that day. For this lot, it was apparently a thermal shock kind of day! Upon arriving at the wet mill, the cherries are put through four rounds of sorting, twice through a density