Jollong Coffee Wealth Culinary Ngopi And Tourism Culinary

NGOPI is a familiar term for Indonesians. Even, there is a coffee that makes the necessities of life. Coffee in Indonesia has a long history and has an important role for the economic growth of people in Indonesia. Indonesia is blessed with its geographical location that is suitable to function as a coffee plantation land. Indonesia's location is ideal for microclimate for coffee growth and production. Several areas in Indonesia are scattered coffee plantations, each of which has unique and different characteristics.

Jollong Coffee Wealth Culinary Ngopi And Tourism Culinary

Still in Pati regency, there is one area named Jollong which still belongs to Gembong sub-district administration of Pati Regency, commonly known for its coffee garden, its height reaches about 700 mdpl with robusta coffee type which dominantly developed the coffee plantation. Coffee plant in Jolong began to be brought by the Dutch at the end of the 19th century.

Plantation is mostly handled by PTPN (PT Perkebunan Nusantara) and the rest belongs to the residents themselves. This area became the center of coffee producers in Pati Regency and as a place of processing of quality coffee plantations. The coffee processing plant itself has processing equipment that is mostly old. This is because the existence of this factory became a relic of Dutch government with its production machine.

Many types of coffee cultivated in Jollong Pati area ranging from robusta, arabica, liberica to peaberry can be found in Jollong Pati plantation. In addition to Colo black coffee from the slopes of Muria into the district of Kudus, and coffee Plukaran which has a sensation not easily forgotten that has been discussed in the previous article, culinary treasures of coffee in Pati also not separated from Jollong Coffee. Named Jollong coffee because it comes from Jollong District Gembong District Pati Regency.

In Jollong people cultivate coffee with a unique way of connecting the shoot robusta with arabica coffee and the result of the acidity level of arabica Jollong coffee is not so obvious and even dominated by bitter taste and slightly acid. Jollong coffee characteristics can be called similar to vegetables and a bit of tobacco and it is typical of coffee in Java plains almost all have the aroma of vegetables and tobacco.

Jollong coffee when the roasting "dark" will come out distinctive aroma and is perfect for mixed blend such as milk coffee, cocoa coffee and coconut milk, because jollong coffee is very strong and bitter so famous as Lampung coffee from Java.

In making jolong coffee should use a temperature of 90 degrees but this will not reduce the aroma of the coffee.

We can enjoy the sensation of coffee Jollong de coffee plantation while traveling to see the scenery around the slopes of the beautiful mountain Muria with a cool air. Jollong coffee plantation there are two places that is Jollong coffee plantation one and Jollong two coffee plantation, where we can find agro tourism planted close to the factory PTPN.

Jollong coffee plantation has now metamorphosed not only we can enjoy drinking Jollong coffee directly in the coffee garden cafe but has turned into agro tourism plantation, where in the garden Jollong has been providing various travel packages such as educational tour where we are taught the procedure of processing the land, nurseries to the planting and maintenance process, and of course the harvest time and process the coffee beans until it becomes ready-made coffee.

We are also taken around in the coffee plantation harvest zone and invited to go around inside the factory to see the coffee processing.

Around the location of Jollong coffee plantations there are also various natural attractions that are quite captivating are the Waterfalls Batu Sirap Grenjengan located south of the factory is ± 5 Km from the factory (on the cliff of Mount Punjul), fishing traditional shop designed "lesehan" style of Javanesse kampoeng with a variety of grilled fish menu at an affordable price. We can stay there because at the location of Jollong coffee plantation there is also a rented homestead of coffee homestead, cotton guesthouse, and orange homes that old buildings interior of the Dutch era with all the trinkets.