If you are a coffee lover you might be tempted to pay for a cup of the most expensive coffee in the world. Indonesia’s velvety tasting brew, Kopi Luwak, gives new meaning to rich coffee. It can cost up to $50 per cup.
“The supply is very limited in the world that makes the price is very expensive,” Kopi Luwak brand managing director Henry Fernando said.
The reason the supply is limited has to do with how the beans are initially processed. Just a warning here, it isn’t pretty.
Kopi means coffee in Indonesian and Luwak is a wild Asian palm civet, a fury creature that looks like a cross between a cat and a ferret. The civet climbs the coffee trees to find the best berries, eats them, digests the berries and eventually out comes the coffee beans in its stools. Farmers then pick up the civet droppings and take the beans to a processing plant. Something about the gastric juices in the civet’s stomach gives Kopi Luwak its unique flavor.
There was a reference to that coffee in the Jack Nicholson film The Bucket List.
I couldn’t get my cat to eat coffee beans but I did manage to train my pet skunk. I haven’t actually been able to sell any skunk-poop coffee yet but I’m fairly sure it’s just a matter of marketing.
Heck, I looked it up on Amazon, and they're shilling robusta beans as Kopi Luwak. No thanks.
All that verbiage to describe cat poop coffee.
You can buy all the civet coffee you want right here:
http://trung-nguyen-online.com/coffee-kopi-luwak-shop.php
Super expensive, yes, but not 50 bucks a cup.
I havent done it yet, but trung nguyen #5, always in my kitchen cabinet.