Wild Bat Geisha, Costa Rica

Wild Animal Beans - 

The Artibeus Jamaicensis is the bat species found in the forests surrounding the Coffea Diversa Estate in Biolley, Southern Costa Rica on the border of Panama. The wild bats feed on the exotic coffee cherries but, unlike most wild animal coffees, like the famous Kopi Luwak civet cats, the cherries are not ingested whole. Instead, the bat breaks the skin of the ripe cherry with its teeth, feeds on the pulp and licks the sugar-rich mucilage thereby initiating a uniquely natural coffee processing method.

Rare Coffee - 

This gorgeous coffee is grown at high high altitudes. The coffee cherries are left on the tree and exposed to the sun as nature's own way of drying the coffee in its parchment. Combined with the discriminating selection of only the very ripest coffee cherries by the bats - this makes for an unusual cup of speciality coffee - remarkably fruity and floral with a very delicate acidity.

Geisha Coffee - 

One of the ancient Ethiopian wild coffees, geisha coffee is a highly prized and an exceptionally fine varietal characterized by a soft, delicate profile and quietly complex aromatics that reward patient attention with notes of lavender, cocoa and hints of molasses.