I was flipping through local TV channels yesterday and came upon this TV segment on Coffee Alamid. From the show I heard a snippet of it being the most expensive coffee in the world. Intrigued that Philippines has the most expensive coffee in the world, I continued to watch the show. Furthermore, I was thinking of coffee souvenirs for my previous employer so this might give me an idea. But the show ended and I didn’t get any more information at all. So I researched Coffee Alamid over the internet.
It was so shocking that this special type of coffee bean (Kopi Luwak as it’s famously known) comes from a civet’s droppings! Gross! Isn’t there a foot-to-mouth disease here? But past the grossness, the way this bean is produced is the civet would hunt for this coffee beans and they would eat it. Unfortunately they cannot digest the bean so they will excrete the bean. The coffee bean collectors will now look for these droppings and process it to be roasted as coffee. Only a handful of kilos are collected each year and a kilo can cost as high as 100USD! Talk about expensive! I kid my sister that maybe we can take up bean collectors as part-time jobs as this would give us good money! Hehehe.
So what does Coffee Alamid taste like? I don’t have any idea and I’m not much of a coffee drinker. The only coffee I tried are from Starbucks, Seattle’s Best Coffee, Nescafe, Maxwell House, and this Ethiopian Coffee someone broguht in to the office (which is so delicious!). Coffee connoisseurs say that it’s like dark chocolate with hazelnuts and much more. Coffee Alamid is a very exotic blend of coffee (Beat that starbucks!). The rarity and exotic flavor comes from the chemical/digestive enzymes inside the civet’s stomach which kind of reformulates the coffee bean flavor. The couple who brought this coffee out in the market has this to say about their product:
“Coffee Alamid is a blend of the Philippine’s finest Arabica, Liberica and Exelsa beans. When roasted, it exudes an almost musical, fruity aroma. It has a strong, sweet, dark chocolatey taste…”
Well if this is so expensive, how are we masses can support this product?! We’re fine already with nescafe 3-in-1. Despite that, I would wish that someday I can taste this coffee…
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You should have seen Jack Nicholsons face after Morgan Freeman told him where Kopi Luwak came from, priceless. More power to your blog! Check out mine if you have the time.
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