Coffee Drinking in the Philippines

[Iani]

So the secret to good coffee must be volcanos

Volcanic soils help alright. A good coffee taster can tell what sort of soil the coffee is grown on - goodness knows how! Well, obviously it's practice.

What really helps is altitude. Put very simply, any coffee grown in the tropics under 3000ft will taste mild to put it generously. Below 2000ft it will be frankly disgusting.

The "better" arabicas are grown on volcanic soils over 4000ft.