Philippine Civet Coffee – Best for refreshing mood
Philippine Civet Coffee is the best for refreshing your mood and soothing your senses. Renowned for its mellow aftertaste, caramel colour soothing aroma, Philippine civet coffee is produced in the highlands of Benguet region at a height of 1800 to 1970 meters above sea level. Besides stimulating taste and aroma, the rareness and provenance of civet coffee beans make them the choice of connoisseurs of coffee.
Civet coffee owes its name to the little-bodied animal called civet, which has cat-like appearance. It is so because civet coffee beans are collected from civet dung. Now, you must be thinking why they are collected from the civet faeces. Civets love coffee cherries and have the sense to choose the tastiest cherries from the tree. They eat the fruity outer part of cherries only and pass the beans inside, where the enzymes work on the beans and add exceptional flavour and pleasing aroma to them. After spending around a day in civet’s digestive tract, these coffee beans are defecated in clump. The local tribes then hand pick these beans from civet dung and subsequently wash, sterilise and dry them before roasting and brewing.
Some interesting facts about the provenance of civet coffee beans
• Production of this coffee began when beans were collected in wild by the tribes from where a civet would defecate to mark their territory.
• Earlier civets were widely hunted by the local tribes. But now with the growing popularity and high income brought by civet coffee beans, civet farming has become a common practice among them.
Since the average yearly production of civet coffee is 1000 pounds only, its cost varies between USD100 and USD 600 per pound. Due to the high cost involved it is out of reach for many and hence, is not available in all coffee stores. With the growing number of online coffee merchants, you can get the costly Philippine Civet Coffee at your doorstep. All you need to do is browse the web to find out the online sellers of civet coffee and place an order with the one whom you find the best suitable.
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