I just got back from India. What an amazing place. A family of four rides on one single motor bike with the mother side-saddle. I saw some fantastic coffee estates. And tried some great coffees. I had an Indian Civet Cat coffee and a MONKEY COFFEE! The monkeys bite the cherries off the coffee trees and unlike the Civet cats, they spit out the parchment coffee. It makes it much harder to pick up because the beans are lying around on the ground individually whereas the Civet cat coffee stays in lumps. (for obvious reasons.) Check out the photos.
My cupping results are as follows:
Traditional cupping:
Civet Cat coffee 85
Extraordinary creamy, buttery body. Very smooth but as it cooled lost a bit of complexity
Monkey Coffee 98
Smooth, sweet, complex, delicate acidity, tight structure, fruit punch plus vanilla, lots of integrity, stayed consistent whole way through.
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