BALI COFFEE

Bali Coffee well grows at highland. It is supposed that Indonesia introduced coffee when Dutch Colonization started in Indonesia. They might had brought the seed from Malabar Coast on West India. Some coffee estates opened during Dutch Colonization are still exist until now for example coffee planttion in West Java, and Kali Klatak East Java, Pabatu coffee plantation in North Sumatra, and in Tabek Fatah, Bukit Tinggi West Sumatra, and Lampung, South Sumatera. After Indonesian independence a big estate again developed in Padamaran area, Toraja, a joint with Japanese business organization, this product is famous in Japan as one of the best coffee products.Coffee estates are now managed by government as state's corporation. While privately owned coffee plantations are spreading out from west to east Indonesia. If we visit a shop here in Denpasar, a collection of coffee found from Lampung, Bukit Tinggi, Toraja, Bali and others. If the process is pure without any combination of other agricultural materials each of the area has it's specific taste. In big cities of Indonesia, especially in Denpasar combined coffee with other materials are more popular then pure coffee. In Bali, normally in the villages people still drink pure coffee while in the cities they choose to drink combined coffee. In Indonesia one famous combined coffee producer is Indo-Cafe with export quality. While in Bali there is combined coffee producer with export quality, and 1 pure coffee producer with export quality in Singaraja. This pure coffee people say has strong taste and is not suitable to drink if you have problem with high blood pressure or hypertension, and is good for those who has low blood pressure.

Coffee species with places of it lives

Bali coffee is one of the best coffee product you can drink in Bali, served hot with strong aroma. Bali coffee was planted since 19 century during the golden era of Klungkung kingdom. On that time, the land of Northern and Western part of this island was cultivated with many kind of agricultural products and coffee was one of it. The area of this plantation mainly covering 3 regencies in Bali, start from Tabanan, Singaraja and Bangli regency. We have two kind of coffee species growing : Robusta is one of coffee species grows in the highland and lives for many years with physical characters :

* Grow big and high, wide leaves, small round fruits, fragrant flower, many branches and can reach 5-7 meters height from the land.
* Favorable land for planting is cool climate, terraced land, 700-1000 above sea level.

* Drying system. Common people in Bali dries coffee seed traditionally by exposing out the seed on cement floor in open area, then the sun dries it naturally. The drying process takes around 1-2 weeks until the seed is considered well dried.
* Storing. We need a year to store coffee seed if we want to get the best quality.
* Roasting. It takes around 20-30 minutes to roast until the seed become brown to black color. In this process we don't use any kind of flavor or chemical.
* Pounding. For export quality product, we use machine to found it until we get the best coffee powder.

PACKAGING

To promote Balinese Coffee, the wholesalers use special packaging by showing Balinese special identification. The cover of packaging made from paper bag with nice color and Balinese picture on both bag side, easy brought for souvenir one.

* Selling locally to traditional market, supermarket, restaurants, hotels and coffee shops available in Bali for souvenir home of visitor coming to Bali.
* Exported to other countries such as Japan, USA, Singapore, etc.

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By Made Wira