Total Availability: 13 bag (4 oz each)

Coffee Roast:	Light
Body:	Heavy
Characteristics:	Nutty, Herbal

Background Info

Monkey Parchment is the world's rarest, and currently most expensive, exotic coffee available. The Monkey Parchment coffee takes everyone by surprise, raising eyebrows just by its name, but the truly unprecedented uniqueness of the coffee's flavors and aromatics is the real eye-opener.

This coffee's story begins in Chikmagular, India and involves, as the name would suggest, monkeys, Rhesus Monkeys to be exact. Occupying the forests of India, Rhesus Monkeys leisurely dine on the ripest, sweetest coffee cherries they can find. After chewing on the fruit for several minutes, they spit the coffee parchment covered seed out onto the forest floor. Trained workers (those with an eagle eye) then meticulously search the ground for these preciously left-over seeds, which are then thoroughly rinsed, washed, processed, and dried.

Roastmaster Comments by R. Miguel Meza
I was very skeptical of this coffee at first but was assured it was very good on a trip to India earlier this year. I eventually had the opportunity to try it and was shocked at what I tasted. Unlike the other animal-processed coffee like Kopi Luwak, this was a coffee that was unusual from the rest and proved exemplary. It is by far the sweetest and most complex Indian Arabica coffee I have ever tasted. Monkey Parchment seems to run the whole spectrum of flavors found in coffee from citrus to nuts, chocolate, and vanilla. The coffee is extremely heavy bodied with a pleasant rounded acidity and seemingly no bitterness. Truly a unique treat.

Very limited quantities are available. Sold in 4 oz bags only.