The Best-Tasting Coffee Might Be One That Bats Got to First

  • 4 years ago
Bourbon pointu coffee is a varietal that's increasingly in demand because of it's pungent flavor. And it gets that pungent flavor from a distressingly strange process...involving bats. About 90 farmers on Madgascar grow these beans. But the beans don't get their distictive flavor until the local bats chew on them. The bats break the coffee cherry's skin, and their digestive juices impart a wholly unique flavor. Ronald Van Der VaekenBelgian Hotelier Once the bats have done their magic, the roasted beans can be worth $110 per pound. If you'd like to try some "bat spit" coffee, you'd better do it soon, because the price keeps going up.

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