Greenlot Coffee Welcoming SIMALEM estate as one of our reputed producer partners .

Simalem Specialty Coffee (SSC) is a specialty coffee producer, specializing in single origin nanolots around the Lake Toba region in Karo Regency, Sumatra. processing coffee from their own organically certified farm, as well as farmer partners’ from the surrounding farms.

Only fully riped cherries are handpicked and processed in dry (natural), semi dry (honey), wet (washed), and gilingbasah (wet hulled) methods

Simalem Coffee Estate started from a 1-Ha farm back in 2004 as part of late founder Bapak Tamin Sukardi‘s research program in agricultural best practice to help the surrounding Karo region farmers.

as part of Mr Johan Kwe’s coffee research and education program, Simalem started to explore further on growing other varieties like Gayo 1, Gayo 2, Longberries, Andong Sari and Bourbon, with the goal of diversification and sustainability for our coffee farmer partners.partners across the Karo Regency, North Sumatera Province. They come from 10 villages with different terroir, stretching from Desa Singa to Regaji to Pangambatan. Where they have learned to match each village’s coffees that’s best suited to specific post-harvest processing methods.