Filipinos love coffee. The demand for the beverage is so huge that local coffee harvests account for only 30% of the national consumption.
Bringing out the best through fermentation
The other used Liberica, more popularly known as barako, from a cooperative in Sta. Maria, Laguna. “This is a farm that’s in a DENR protected forest… Metro Manila would flood if not for that forest,” he says. “There’s 85,000 trees there in Sta. Maria, Laguna, and it’s one of the highest concentrations of Liberica coffees in CALABARZON.”He developed very different fermentation processes for both.
He used the opposite method for the Liberica beans from Laguna. “…the farmers were getting paid really, really low prices for their coffees at the time… People from Batangas will come to their farm in Laguna, buy it, then sell it in Batangas as Barako. For me, that was a big issue,” Conlin says. “I told them that their coffee should be highlighted as their coffee, as a Laguna, Sta. Maria coffee. They said they’re not famous for coffee….
He believes that using Philippine beans in international competitions is one way for the country’s coffee industry to gain global attention. “…the more professional baristas use our Philippine coffee on the world stage, the more attention we’ll get, and the more these coffee farmers can command for their coffee,” he says.
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