Kalinga Coffee

Singapore coffee culture has become a part of our busy lifestyle. Like an addict craving for nicotine, a shot of caffeine helps to relax the body and keeps the mind alert.In a typical Singaporean. In an air-conditioned Kopitiam Food Court, customers drink an average of 471 cups of coffee a day. The coffee is mainly "kopi-si" which is coffee with evaporated milk. They drink 300 cups of tea, mainly "Teh-si" and 86 cups of malt beverages such as Milo or Horlicks. These statistics show that coffee is the preferred hot beverage among laypersons in Singapore. (source from Kopitiam Investment Pte Ltd).
However, in Gamu our coffee sales shot up in demand during raining or cold spell it seems to conincide with the weather. When the first encounter with Kalinga coffee the aroma smell is totaly alien to me, like mixture of strong antiseptic fragrant acclaimed aroma and very strong texture taste of coffee bean, which I never taste it in other coffee brands in Singapore. However, when the smell diffuse and linger on it bring back memory of the olden days, coffee shops in Singapore used to roast their own beans in a rotating cylinder in the back lane. They produced excellent coffee and customers will return daily to get their dose. We don't see this nowadays and the coffee powder in the coffee shops are mass produced in factories. There is an urban legend that says that the coffee roasters add a little opium to the beans.

Coffee was brought in the Philippines centuries ago by the Spaniards while the country was a colony. They planted coffee trees on the highlands. And because of good combination of humidity, cold, soil and the tropical climate, these plantation flourished. By the 19th century, the Philippines was the 4th largest coffee producing country in the world.

Kalinga Gold is a blend of the Arabica bean, known for its heady aroma and intense flavor, the Robusta bean for additional richness, and the Excelsa bean for a twist of complex flavor. Kalinga Gold coffee was first introduced by Spanish Conquistadores between 1873 and 1881 to the tribes of the Cordillera Mountains in Northern Philippines. The entire crop of organically grown coffee was then shipped to Spain and sold for fabulously high prices, with preciously little trickling back to Manila's ruling class. Only today, more than a century later, is the same coffee available, and in limited quantities! Kalinga Gold prospered in the Cordillera under the leadership of an Igorot chieftain named Commising. Commising secured his influence and power by defending his people from the head-hunting Busoles of the North. Today, this same coffee is harvested in limited quantities by Commising's descendants -- the indigenous peoples of Kalinga and the Cordillera Mountains.
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