Birdie, Birdie in the Sky…..The Saga of Jacu Bird Coffee

You know the rest right?

Remember I told you about Kopi Luwak which is basically coffee that travels through the entire digestive system of a wild cat and then is ..uh excreted and cleaned and roasted…Hopefully cleaned well.

Then there was the Monkey spit coffee. A bean that a type of monkey spits out after he eats the berry. Yum!

(O.k..I am adding this note to say I have NOT posted about those coffees but I did write and article on them you can read, Unusual Coffees . I really thought I had posted here but I can’t find it.)

Now there is the newest gourmet coffee… Innocently called, Avian Selected..Bird Processed.

Lest you think that poor birds are being forced to work long hours in South American Coffee plantations I will give you the bottom line. Yep. Bird poop coffee. Yummy.

This is what the farmer that …ummm…collects this coffee says. I got this quote from Sweet Marias, where you can not only read about it you can BUY the bean. You will need to scroll down the page until you find it.

Henrique Sloper : “As a supporter of the natural flora and fauna of the farm, Camocim welcomes the Jacu Bird as a member of the farm’s agro-florestal system. Rather that think of the Jacu Bird as a pest, eating our finest coffee cherries, we saw the opportunity to employ the Jacu Bird as one of our finest manual coffee pickers. Once ingested, the Jacu Bird, eliminates the digested beans which lie on the ground under the coffee trees. Our staff collects these odorless droppings, transports them to the drying areas where they are dried, cleaned and stored in their parchment for up to three months.

So, if you try this coffee please let me know what you think. It is one I will never review. Gag reflex and all.

Seriously. My horses used to poop out whole oats once in awhile..it never occurred to me to clean them and make oatmeal, you know?

IMAGE:Sweet Marias