Civet Cat Coffee Philippines

The most well-known civets are the Asian Palm Civets often referred to as the Civet Cat.

Civet cat coffee philippines. Making coffee alamid starts with a nocturnal animal called a civet cat. Tanay Hills Coffee Beanery brings you the rare and exotic Philippine Civet Coffee. A Filipino coffee farmer showing civet cat droppings of undigested coffee seeds he collected from the forest floor at the Malarayat mountain in.

A Civet is a small mammal belonging to the Paradoxurus gen us that is found in forests in numerous parts of the World. This wildlife excretes coffee seeds considered as the worlds most expensive coffee making it a high-value animal for some households and coffee manufacturers. Civet cat is endemic in the philippines they produce coffee by consuming only coffee bean their feces are dried roast and grind to make this high quality coffee.

Since 2008 it is IUCN Red Listed as Least Concern as it accommodates to a broad range of habitats. Faeces collectors make the trek to the cats natural habitat in the primary forest and gather the droppings piece by piece bunch by bunch. Gatherers in the Philippines sell them for as low as P1200 per kilogram.

EXOTIC BEANS In New York one coffee shop sells the civet beans at a staggering 340 a pound 748 a kilogram. Pure Jungle Cat Coffee from the native islands of Sumatra Java Bali and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago and from some farms in the islands of the Philippines. The cats who thrive in this environment will eat the choicest coffee berries growing in the wild.

The alamids in the Philippines are free roaming. The Asian palm civet also called common palm civet toddy cat and musang is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia. Today coffee farmers now search the forest floor for droppings of the civet cat also called alamid or musang.

But it comes from an unusual source - the droppings of a nocturnal cat-like. Ten years after Alamid Coffee entered the Philippine market civet cats are now considered valuable animals capable of yielding a sizeable profit for entrepreneurs in the civet coffee industry. The Philippine civet cat uses its nose to choose the ripest and sweetest coffee cherries and relentlessly eats them during coffee season.