Posted Sat Jan 13, 2007, 2:14am Subject: Anybody from the Philippines?
To my "kababayans" here ...
I just started roasting coffee 2 days ago when the FrenchRoast I ordered online arrived. It came with 2 packs of half-pound Bolivia coffee samples. But I overroasted the first pack while learning how to use the machine properly. When I did get the right roast, wow, it was the best coffee I've ever tasted! And now the other pack is almost gone, maybe just 2-3 days left of coffee drinking. I've ordered different Arabica coffees from US online shops, and the package should be here next week. But darn, shipping is expensive!
So, where do you buy your green beans here in the Philippines? I heard there are Arabicas grown in the Cordilleras up north, but I just don't know where to buy as I'm too far down south in Mindanao. Batangas' barako, of course, but I heard they sell mostly roasted / ground beans in groceries all over the country.
I was able to contact sellers of coffee alamid (the famed civet cat coffee), tried a 50-gram pack, but it was already roasted, with no information when it was roasted. So I didn't enjoy it as much as the freshly roasted Bolivian I'm sipping now. If only they'd sell me the green beans, I'd buy again. But no way I'm buying the roasted beans again.
I roamed the markets here in our area, but nobody knows where to get green beans. I accidentally bought a kilo of green beans in a recent trip to, of all places, Basilan, at the market. But its robusta, and I really don't like it.
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