Civet Cat Coffee Philippines

Civet Café Ltd produces and supplies Philippine-sourced Civet Coffee from wild-roaming civet cats.

Civet cat coffee philippines. And according to Basil this differentiates our coffee from that of our neighbors. A Filipino coffee farmer showing civet cat droppings of undigested coffee seeds he collected from the forest floor at the Malarayat mountain in. Today coffee farmers now search the forest floor for droppings of the civet cat also called alamid or musang.

We are the farm and collect civet beans from ONE AREA the Langogan Valley. Cat poop coffee aka kopi luwak are the coffee berries that have once been eaten and excreted by a cat called the asian palm civet. Exporter of exotic wild Civet Coffee from mountain province in Northern Philippines.

Gatherers in the Philippines sell them for as low as P1200 per kilogram. The alamids in the Philippines are free roaming. These coffee beans are more commonly known as Kape Alamid in the Philippines.

It is widely distributed with large populations that in 2008 were thought unlikely to be declining. The name is somewhat misleading due to the fact that it refers to an animal that is not actually a. There are many other members of this genus such as African Civets which as their name implies are mostly found in Central Africa.

The Philippine civet cat uses its nose to choose the ripest and sweetest coffee cherries and relentlessly eats them during coffee season. The animal digests only the pulp of the beans which passes through the civets digestive tract and naturally ferments the beans in its digestive system where enzymes break down some of the proteins producing beans of low. In light of this threat the DENR emphasized that the civet cat plays an important role in the ecosystem by propagating the seeds it spews after eating.

EXOTIC BEANS In New York one coffee shop sells the civet beans at a staggering 340 a pound 748 a kilogram. Acclaimed as best premium coffee civet coffee bears a musky scent that is not present in other Kalinga coffee blends. In other parts of Asia it is also known as palm civet which is a distant relative of mongoose and raccoon.