Borneo Sabah Arabica

About This Coffee

DIRECT TRADE, NANO-LOT, ROAST DATE MAY 13th. Malaysia is not a country most people associate with coffee. The have a long history of growing the Robusta and Liberia species, mostly for internal consumption. Arabica however has just begun commercial cultivation in the past 2 decades and is unknown until recently even to Malaysia's local roasters. This coffee comes from the massive island of Borneo of which Malaysia's Sabah province occupies the northern portion. Here sits the impressive Mt. Kinabalu, a popular tourist attraction. In the highlands around this mountain is where arabica can be found. In November 2018 we visited Sabah to see what the potential of this new origin might be. Support and training from the local department of agriculture has been quite good and what we saw there were well kept farms and decent processing practices. Pulped coffee is fermented with water overnight and then dried on raised screens. We suggested to some of the growers that they try doing a two stage fermentation process to hopefully produce a clearer more vibrant cup. a few months later we now have the first 20lb of coffee produced by this method to share with consumers out side of Malaysia for the very first time.