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20th May 2014 #1
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Coffee Drinking in the Philippines
In the Philippines, coffee still reigns supreme over tea. In the Provinces that grow coffee, the best crops (those with the reddest cherries) are separated for private consumption ("home use" or "family use") and are never sold. These are specially roasted in pans and meticulously pounded or ground and passed through screens until the grind is perfectly even. The grounds are then cooked in pots and served freshly "boiled' or brewed.
Roasting is done in small batches, usually limited to as much as what the family will use for a week or a few days.
Upon entering house in the province, the first beverage offered is coffee. Coffee is then prepared and usually taken with just a little sugar. Milk is an option, which is usually fresh carabao's milk or, for convenience, evaporated milk in cans.
The Philippines used to be the fourth largest producer of coffee in the 1800s. From 1886 to 1888, the country was the world's sole supplier of coffee.
Today, the Philippines is a net importer of coffee. Filipinos consume over 60,000 metric tons of coffee but only produce 30,000 tons.
Coffee is a product that has an increasing demand year after year. This means that a coffee business has a big chance of survival and success in the country.
The problem of production is being addressed by the Philippine coffee board or the National Coffee Board and other private organizations that encourage the planting of more land to coffee. If their current plan is executed well, there should be enough coffee in the country for the generations to come.
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20th May 2014 #2
I've tasted some Philippine coffee, and it is disgusting. Choice is a problem as well, as most supermarkets only have about 10 types of ground coffee.
I find coffee from Java the best. Grown in the rich volcanic soils.Keith Driscoll - Administrator
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Cafe barako and tablea de cacao from Batangas
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21st May 2014 #7
Well I bought a bag of Pinoy coffee but cant remember the name!!
I use a French coffee press as I cant be bothered waiting for the drip drip drip!!
The coffee I bought is bloody good to be honest!!
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21st May 2014 #8
I wonder if the coffee quality has diminished due to lack of proper training on how best to handle the beans. A good coffee bean would taste horrible if it were roasted wrongly.
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I can't stand tea or coffee, but I have noticed that high quality coffees come from volcanic regions. Maybe there is a business opportunity for whoever gets their marketing act together (and treats the beans properly) in production/distribution.
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21st May 2014 #10
Volcanic soil is very fertile, and I think it does produce good coffee.
When we still had our farm, my dad reserved part of the land just for coffee for the family. Even our relatives in Manila preferred the beans he sent to the imported beans they could buy at the supermarket.
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21st May 2014 #12
Just sitting at Bo's coffee in Cebu City having a latte.
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You can't beat the smell of coffee beans as you enter Bagiou market
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I still prefer 'Camp Coffee' it's delicious!
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Is that that Chicory stuff ?
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I hate that ground coffee too.
Lucky I like the cheapest stuff.
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I remember Camp coffee from when I was a kid
Not had it since......
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10th July 2014 #21
Volcanic soils help alright. A good coffee taster can tell what sort of soil the coffee is grown on - goodness knows how! Well, obviously it's practice.
What really helps is altitude. Put very simply, any coffee grown in the tropics under 3000ft will taste mild to put it generously. Below 2000ft it will be frankly disgusting.
The "better" arabicas are grown on volcanic soils over 4000ft.
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11th July 2014 #24
Oh well, here's some coffee tips for anyone who gives a stuff
Currently, and this is my personal experience:
Asda have a range called "taste the difference". Don't believe it's special - it ain't - it's just marketing really.
They have though a taste the difference ground coffee range, and one of these is Ethiopian. Well, it's frankly one of the best I've tasted, and tastes like a very good coffee house product. I wouldn't bother really with the others. Not expensive either - £2.50 a bag.
Now this is hit and miss, because they might have run out already, but if you are near a Home Bargains, there's something amazing in the coffee stock there at the moment. They are selling for £2.00 a bag, Taylors Rwandan coffee.
Yes I hadn't heard of that either - Rwandan coffee for goodness sake! At that price though I thought I'd give it a bash.
Soon as I opened it, I got this strange smell - and it's like no coffee I've ever smelled before. I just can't describe that smell.
The taste - there's no bitterness at all, and it's again not like any coffee I can describe. Taste this stuff and you might not be able to drink other coffee again, I've just opened a new packet of a different coffee, and it's like drinking quinine after the Rwandan stuff.
Comes in a bronze coloured packet if you're interested. Depends if you have a Home Bargains near you though.
Cue someone else trying it and posting they think it tastes like dried elephant dung
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