Gourmet coffee made from civet droppings

AP Television News Davao del Sur, Philippines, 9 February 2012 1. Close of civet eating coffee cherries 2. Wide of caged civet eating 3. Close of civet eating coffee cherries 4. Wide of civets in cages 5. Close of civet eating coffee cherries pan to civet droppings AP Television Davao City, Philippines, 9 January 2012 6. Mid of Sonny Dizon drinking civet coffee 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sonny Dizon, President - Mount Apo Coffee Company: "I was concerned that we were going to end up with a lot of civet and no revenue, so I started thinking about relocating them to a better environment, which is in Kapatagan, where the coffee is also, so I do buy coffee from the farmers, and feed the civet ripe coffee." AP Television Davao del Sur, Philippines, 9 January 2012 8. Wide of mountain range surrounding Kapatagan 9. Pan of cages housing civets 10. Close-up of civet eating coffee cherries 11. Wide of caged civet with droppings below the cage 12. Wide of civet cages 13. Zoom in as caretaker Romeo Nunez sweeps civet droppings into bin then puts beans in pail 14. SOUNDBITE: (Tagalog) Romeo Nunez, Caretaker, Mount Apo Civet Farm: "This one (red cherry) is sweet that's why they eat this. It's ripe. This green one, they don't eat it. The skin is tough, and it's salty, so they don't eat this." 15. Wide of coffee farm 16. Mid of coffee grower Lolita Panes harvesting red coffee cherries 17. Close-up of red coffee cherries being harvested 18. Wide Napoleon and Lolita Panes harvesting coffee beans 19. SOUNDBITE: (Tagalog) Lolita Panes, Coffee Grower: "If we harvest only red cherries, they say that the weight is heavier, and the buyer no longer complains, they do not reduce the weight anymore. So it's to our advantage that we harvest the selected ones." 20. Wide farm staff separating the beans 21. Close-up of hands selecting the beans then pan up to Nunez 22. Close-up of selected civet coffee beans being thrown in basin AP Television Davao City, Philippines, 9 January 2012 23. Wide of civet coffee beans being dried in the sun 24. Mid of roasting machine with civet coffee beans inside 25. Close-up of flame 26. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sonny Dizon, President, Mount Apo Coffee Company: "If there is a parchment (of coffee) that has a crack and goes with the coffee, then the ultimate way to sanitise it is through roasting, and roasting it kills all the bacteria." 27. Roasted civet coffee beans poured out of metal roasting canister 28. Mid of Dizon drinking coffee 29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sonny Dizon, President, Mount Apo Coffee Company: "The enzymes are supposed to penetrate the parchment, which influences the taste of the coffee. What happens is it lowers down the peptide, and increases the protein, and affects the taste. And the taste is, it diminishes the bitterness, and puts a chocolatey taste, chocolate taste on the coffee." 30. Close-up of bagged Mount Apo civet coffee 31. Wide of Mount Apo civet coffee on display 32. Wide of Austrian tourist buying a jar of Mount Apo civet coffee 33. Close-up of Mount Apo civet coffee jars 34. Mid of Austrian tourist paying for coffee 35. Mid of Austrian tourist Manuel Winkler drinking civet coffee 36. Wide of Winkler with friends 37. SOUNDBITE: (German) Manuel Winkler, Austrian Tourist: "I walked here and I saw a guy roasting beans and I tried it and it tasted really good." 38. Zoom in as Austrian tourist Wolfgang Jung tries civet coffee 39. SOUNDBITE: (German) Wolfgang Jung, 30-year old Austrian tourist "I tried the civet coffee and I like it." 40. Zoom in as coffee drinker Jerson Laban drinks civet coffee 41. Mid of civet coffee drinker 42. SOUNDBITE: (Tagalog) Jerson Laban, Filipino coffee drinker: 44. Close-up of civet coffee beans You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d500db6d2844d7321c0e897c5074fd8b Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork