Comments on: My civet coffee experience

By: After-dinner coffee | Drinks

After-dinner coffee | Drinks — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:16:55 +0000

[...] preference. Or, is it the hype surrounding a particular variety of coffee? I’ve tried civet (alamid) coffee, I liked it although I didn’t find it [...]

By: eyeeck

eyeeck — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:20:03 +0000

hello connie,
i find your site very informative and helpful to novice like myself.

to maria: additional info on civets(though i’m not claiming an expert) additional info ; they only eat ripe coffee beans(cherries) ,irregardless of varieties,so the droppings are a mixture of right vatieties(arabica,robusta,excelsea,liberica) which are nature-ripened beans. these are eaten by civets sporadically thus they are known to have a knack for eating quality beans. we humans can not duplicate this flair, only civets. so imagine superior beans are consumed with civets,later picked-up by farmers from the ground. only the skin of the beans are absorbed from the digestion process, still the outer shell is left intact. then, there are other series of procedures: drying,scaling,roasting & grinding, before it is served hot, uh brew/percolate first.

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:21:20 +0000

I’ve drank a wide variety of coffee here in Canada, US and back home. People can be very particular about their brews and for me it’s all about the right balance. The aroma, the almost caramelly taste, and the afternotes. I don’t like any sour notes in my coffee – that tells me that it’s not fresh. And for all the expensive beans, to me the very best coffee I ever tasted, was the freshly roasted coffee bought by a friend’s Batangas farmhand from a local marketplace, brewed in a large pot and served fresh with evaporated milk and sugar. It was almost heady, caramely, almost capuccino like but not.. There is nothing more exotic than that. (and since I did once work in the coffee trading industry, I do happen to know my coffee preferences) I’ve been searching for that perfect brew ever since…

I’d say, you are brave to have tasted the civet coffee. I can’t extracate myself from the thought that these are droppings. Also, because these came from the very animal that cause the SARS epidemic.