$15 coffee? Idiocy knows no bounds, but I shouldn’t be surprised by this coming from San Fran-sissy-co.
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.
I’ll stick with the best: French Peruvian from Porto Rico Coffee Importers, NYC. Ten bucks a pound.
People are lemmings and idiots!
The world’s best cup of coffee is at a coffee shop in NYC. They featured it in the movie Elf.
A spike from what, exactly?
I once flew business class on an Asian carrier (EVA?) that served Krug champagne. Retail it goes for $150 a bottle.
I guess I was to much of a Philistine to appreciate it, ‘cause for the life of me it just wasn’t any better than the $12 sparkling wine I drink on New Years Eve.
I am satisfied with Trader Joe’s French Roast Coffee Beans brewed with fresh filtered water at home $5.99 for a Bag.
People are so stupid. They buy an expensive cup of coffee then put it in a paper cup.
I gulp down a 15 ounce mug in the morning to get my heart started; Dunkin’ D is my favorite but I can live with most brands. Fifteen bucks buys me a month or more worth.
And I thought people were idiots for paying $6 for flavoring coffee and calling it latte’.
Sorry, but this stuff is nowhere near the same plane of existence as top shelf whisky.
My wife brought back seven bags of varying Gisha coffee from a recent trip to Panama. They are quite good and have natural flavors you don’t taste from standard coffee. A pound goes for $16-$40.
It is not the normal coffee bean, so that adds to the taste difference.
I still prefer light-roasted Guatemalan coffee from the Huehuetenago area best, though.
I am a coffee fiend. It is the last remaining vice and I drink at least 6 cups a day. The consistently best coffee I have found is the Colombian Supremo at Costco. 3 pounds for a tad more than a cup of this swill.
” ‘It’s Like a Top-Shelf Whiskey’: Bay Area Buzzing Over $15 Coffee”
For $15/cup it had better have some ‘Top-Shelf Whiskey’ IN IT.
Bet they would pay twice as much for elephant poop coffee.
Equator Coffee educator Akaash Saini said various fertilizers are used to grow the coffee beans.
ping me when it’s available in a k-cup ;)