Entries by toniwahid

Quiz : Name Me ! (Closed)

Name Me Quiz for a Froco Roasting Machine, with the ultimate prize of Rp.1,000,000 for one lucky winner and 1 kg of Raw Toraja (Tanah Toraja) Coffee beans for the lucky 14 Runners-up. Christian from Froco, the architect who build the FR3 roasting machine still hasn’t baptized the machine with a name, and it’s temporarily […]

Coffee Diversity In A Documentary

At the corner of Jakarta Coffee House, Borie, the café owner, introduced me to Budi Kurniawan – a creative worker who has worked on commercial movies like Laskar Pelangi, Badai Pasti Berlalu (a remake) as well as a bunch of advertising work. Graduated with a degree in Communication from the University of Diponegoro, he immediately […]

Kapal Selam (Submarine) Coffee

Image 1: The coffee grinder that has faithfully served the customers for decades at Kapal Selam coffee in Bandung. Every morning of her life, my late mother always brewed a cup of this distinctively fragrant coffee for my father, and the scent has been imprinted in my memory in such a way, even now. That […]

JH Coffee

A coffee shop equipped with a roasting machine? There are several of them, especially in Jakarta. But if the customers can choose their own coffee and ask for it to be roasted at the shop? Only at JH Coffee!. Located in the Grand Lucky supermarket, Jakarta Sudirman Central Business District (SCBD) area just to the […]

The online store SCAI & Portland SCAA Exposition

The Specialty Coffee Association of Indonesia (SCAI) online website has launched a new feature – “Store”, a page that showcases several items such as Agtron numbers, posters, tasting spoons, coffee literature as well as Le Nez Du. Officially launched last Friday (February 17th 2012) at La Tazza Café, in Electronic City, Sudirman Central Business District […]

To Java Raung’s Headquarter

Image 1: Bondowoso’s Deathly Gate. This historical monument commemorates the three railway carriages carrying 100 people suspected of being a rebel by the Dutch colonial government. Those people were taken from this city and transported to the detention center in Surabaya on 23 November 1947. As many as 46 people died from dehydration, as the carriage […]

Cak Wang

Cak Wang’s coffee shop is not your typical posh café that is designed for the patrons’ comfort, but it’s located in the corner of Jember University, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. This is where the evenings start to come alive, in this tightly spaced, 4 x 9 meter wide place. Dozens of college students […]

Liberica

Image 1: Dwi Nugroho, graduated from Bogor Institute of Agriculture, who is now one of the research staff at the Indonesian Coffee and Cocoa Research Institute, is assisting the Tanjung Gabus coffee farmers from Jambi, to develop a liberica coffee variant. Dwi is also an R Grader (a Robusta coffee tasting expert). Owners of Liberica […]