Wild Bat, Costa Rica Coffee
Unfortunately, our Wild Bat Coffee has been unavailable for a few years now and will not be returning. Due to climate change, the bats left the forest surrounding Coffea Diversa’s farm. If you’re looking for an alternative, please take a look at our Wild Toucan coffees from the same estate.
The Artibeus Jamaicensis is the bat species found in the forests surrounding the Coffea Diversa Estate in Biolley, Southern Costa Rica on the border of Panama. The wild bats feed on the exotic coffee cherries but, unlike most wild animal coffees (like the famous Kopi Luwak), the cherries are not ingested whole. Instead, the bat breaks the skin of the ripe cherry with its teeth, feeds on the pulp, and licks the sugar-rich mucilage – initiating a uniquely natural processing method.
The coffee cherries are left on the tree and exposed to the sun as nature’s way of drying the coffee in its parchment. Combined with the discriminating selection of only the ripest coffee cherries by the bats, this makes for an unusual cup of speciality coffee – remarkably fruity and floral with a delicate acidity.
