Pure Sumatran – 1kg Coffee Beans – single-origin
£31.95
Purchase coffee beans in: 1kg coffee beans – suitable for any grind coffee type, from coarse cafetière coffee to fine espresso coffee.
Purchase Luxury Single Origin Sumatra Coffee Beans – Discover Pure Sumatran, available as premium grind coffee or whole coffee beans in multiple sizes. Roasted to a powerful dark strength and wet-hulled by Sumatra’s unique Giling Basah method, these coffee beans are dark, syrupy, and entirely unmissable – a speciality coffee of immense depth, extraordinary as a black coffee, a bold flat white, or an intensely earthy americano.
When you buy coffee beans with this depth, you choose an introvert’s alternative to the world’s more celebrated origins. Pure Sumatran coffee beans and grind coffee reward the drinker who approaches with patience and an open mind – available as whole coffee beans for grind coffee freshness or as grind coffee sachets. Outstanding as a black coffee, a dark mocha, a cortado coffee, or a café au lait of forest-floor intensity.
The Pure Sumatran Backstory
If Kenya is coffee’s bright, vivacious extrovert, Sumatra is its brooding, brilliant introvert – a speciality coffee of immense depth that rewards the drinker who approaches it with patience and an open mind. The coffee beans of Sumatra’s Aceh and Lintong growing regions are processed by the island’s unique wet-hulling method, known locally as Giling Basah, a technique that results in a flavour profile unlike anything produced anywhere else on earth. In the cup, Pure Sumatran is a journey rather than a destination: dark, earthy richness gives way to cedar, tobacco, and ripe berry in ways that shift with each successive sip. Available as whole coffee beans for those who want maximum freshness from their grind coffee, and as grind coffee in our portion-controlled sachets and 227gm bags. Whether enjoyed as a commanding black coffee americano, a dark mocha with chocolate, a rich latte, or a deeply atmospheric cortado coffee, Pure Sumatran is a speciality coffee of serious intent for serious drinkers.
Roast Level: Dark
Characteristics of the Pure Sumatran
Coffee Strength
Pure Sumatran is roasted to a dark strength (level 4 to 5).
Coffee Aroma
Expect forest floor, dark cacao, damp cedar, and a wild earthiness that announces Sumatra before the cup reaches the lips.
Coffee Flavour
Flavours of dark cacao, cedar, tobacco, ripe berry, and a resinous earthiness that shifts with each successive sip.
Coffee Body
A full, syrupy, almost chewable body – low acidity and entirely without parallel among the world’s single-origin coffee beans.
Coffee Texture
Thick and resinous, with a mouthfeel that coats the palate in dark, wet-earth complexity and lingers long after.
Coffee Palate
A long, resinous finish of cedar and dark earth that clings with the tenacity of great Sumatran wet-hulled coffee at its best.
Storage Recommendation
The Pure Sumatran stays fresher longer when:
• Store Pure Sumatran coffee beans airtight, cool, and dark – the wet-hulled character is uniquely sensitive to air and oxidation.
• Grind coffee sachets maintain the dark roast character well – keep sealed and use within four weeks of opening.
• Brew with water at 93-95°C to unlock the full depth of these extraordinary Indonesian coffee beans.
Recommendations for Brewing Pure Sumatran Ground Coffee
• French Press Coffee (cafetière coffee) – Grind coffee beans to a coarse setting and steep in a cafetière for four minutes; the oils from Pure Sumatran’s coffee beans remain entirely in the brew, the dark cacao intensifying through immersion – a syrupy, resinous black coffee of unsurpassed speciality coffee depth, or with warm milk as a dramatically dark café au lait.
• Cold Brew Coffee – Grind coffee to a coarse setting and steep cold for 16 to 24 hours; the wet-hulled character of this grind coffee creates a cold extract of cedar and dark cacao that is smooth where the hot version is textured – serve as an iced black coffee, add cold milk for a chilled dark latte, or stir in chocolate for a cold mocha.
• Espresso Machine Coffee – Grind coffee beans to a fine setting and pull through an espresso machine; the wet-hulled dark roast of these coffee beans concentrates into a dense, syrupy espresso of cedar-and-tobacco complexity – the foundation of a powerfully dark flat white, a bold mocha, a rich cappuccino with genuine depth, or a macchiato of considerable atmospheric character.
• Moka Pot Coffee – Grind coffee to a medium-fine setting and brew stovetop in a moka pot; the stovetop pressure distils the earthy intensity of Pure Sumatran’s coffee beans into a compact, deeply atmospheric black coffee – serve short as an intense speciality coffee or add steamed milk for a dark, forest-floor latte or cortado coffee.
• Filter Machine Coffee (Drip Coffee Machine) – Grind coffee beans to a medium setting and run through a domestic filter machine; this grind coffee gives even the most ordinary domestic appliance something genuinely remarkable to extract – a dark, earthy speciality coffee black coffee quite unlike any other grind coffee origin in the machine.
• Pour Over Coffee – Grind coffee to a medium setting and pour through a quality dripper; the cedar and tobacco from Pure Sumatran’s coffee beans emerge with a structural precision that surprises – a more defined speciality coffee black coffee than expected from this origin, and a fine americano base or cortado coffee with a small measure of cold milk.
• V60 Coffee – Grind coffee beans to a medium-fine setting and pour in steady circles through a V60; the V60’s precision draws a cleaner, more architectural expression of Pure Sumatran’s coffee beans – a speciality coffee black coffee of considered dark complexity, outstanding as an americano or the base for a flat white of deep, earthy, wholly distinctive character.
• Chemex Coffee – Grind coffee to a medium-coarse setting and filter through a Chemex; the heavy paper catches the denser oils and presents the cedar and dark fruit of this grind coffee in a more elegantly composed format – a surprisingly refined speciality coffee black coffee from these dark, brooding coffee beans, fine as an americano or a café au lait.
• Turkish Coffee – Grind coffee beans to an extra-fine powder and simmer in a cezve; the wet-hulled Indonesian origin concentrated by the Turkish method creates a small, dense, resinous speciality coffee black coffee of quite extraordinary atmospheric power – the most intense and memorable grind coffee brewing format these coffee beans can inhabit.
• Coffee Percolator – Add medium-grind Pure Sumatran coffee beans to the percolator basket and allow the water to cycle through slowly; these coffee beans produce a dark, earthy percolated black coffee of considerable depth – a speciality coffee cup of brooding character, best enjoyed as a straight black coffee or with cold milk as a dramatic café au lait.
