The best coffee on this island, by far, is grown by my family up in the mountains of Bonao, past Blanco, near the new dam, on the out skirts of the Cibao Valley. Before i tell you the name of it let me just state for the record that it's one of the world's most expensive, low production varietes of coffee. it is made from the beans of coffee berries which have been eaten by a Dominican feral cat (Dominican Hermaphroditus) after its passed through its digestive tract. my family keep about two dozen of the cats around on the farm. i'm not joking. the cats eat the berries for its very fleshy pulp. in its stomach proteolytic enzymes seep into the beans, making shorter peptides and more free amino acids. passing through the feral cats intestines the beans are then defecated, keeping their shape. my unlces and cousins walk around gathering them up off the ground, as well as undigging them after the cats have instinctively tried to bury their poop in a sand box that we built for them to poop in. my uncles thoroughly wash the beans, then sun dry them, then lightly roast and brew them; afterwards you get an aromatc coffee with much less bitterness and just a slight after taste of...yep, you guessed it flowers. we call the coffee "Poppi Luwak." No, it's not a joke.
My family export the coffee for US $300 a pound.
Sincerely, Frank