KAPE ALAMID

Actually Kape Alamid and Kopi Luwak is the same thing. Kape Alamid is Mindanao Civet Coffee that comes only from the finest ripe, organically grown, coffee cherries of Mindanao’s forests. The civet here is called alamid.

During the coffee season (November – March), farmers collect civet droppings and extract the beans by carefully washing and cleaning them before drying. After drying, the farmers bring the clean beans to MinLand Foundation. MinLand subjects the beans to quality control measures and testing like size sorting, moisture content evaluation and random physical checks for consistency and authenticity. MinLand then washes and dries the beans further.

When the beans are dry enough, the outer covering of the bean is physically removed. Beans are roasted and packed thereafter. The coffee finally undergoes disinfection through Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation to destroy pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, mold, and mildew.

Kape Alamid is strong and naturally sweet when roasted. It gives off a sweet chocolatey aroma that rouses the senses. Noted as the "rarest coffee in the world" the commodity sold by Japan Airlines as a gourmet product on its business class section for 600 dollars for 100 grams and is exported under the Coffee Alamid trademark to China, Taiwan, Australia and the United States. (taken from MinLand Foundation and Squidoo web pages)