Posted on 04/21/2012 8:22:39 PM PDT by Stoat
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Yes, you can buy this coffee over the internet ... $25.. for a "sachet" that is said to make 2 four-ounce cups.
Specialty Coffee Products - Archive - Valbemar
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Civet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The term civet applies to over a dozen different mammal species. Most of the species diversity is found in southeast Asia. The most well-known civet species is the African Civet, Civettictis civetta, which historically has been the main species from which was obtained a musky scent used in perfumery. The word civet may also refer to the distinctive musky scent produced by the animals."
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Extreme Coffee -- Sumatra - YouTube
"It's the most exotic, rare and expensive coffee in the world. Kopi Luwack which comes from the dung of the Common Palm Civet or Luwack is so rare some believe it doesn't exist.
Much of the coffee which can sell for more than $50 dollars a cup in New York, Hong Kong or Tokyo has been cut or is simply fake.
The ABC's foreign affairs editor Peter Cave is a coffee lover who has been seeking the real thing for many years, so he headed to the mountains of Sumatra to track down the exotic brew and sample it with the farmers who collect the civet dropping from the forest floor and who are experimenting with taming and domesticating the increasingly endangered Luwak. "
Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
The word "cat" was included in the title only because that's what was used in the original article.
That being said, I have no information as to any experimentation that may or may not have taken place involving coffee beans and domesticated house cats.
Thank you for your attention.
"It is."
I just had to post to say LOVE your tagline.
Also cute kitteh, or civet or mr. coffee or whatever it is!
“Nutty, with a hint of Ex-Lax.”
I'd always wondered how this "recipe" was discovered.
So, if one gets too snooty to drink burned coffee with other coffee snobs, they can upgrade to cat feces?
I understand even the red coffee berry pulp contains caffeine.
That civet cat looks pretty caffeinated to me. Look at those big eyes. Wide open.
Me thinks I will stick with regular coffee,thank you.
I’ll second that.
if this coffee tastes so dam good you would think someone would mimic the ‘process’?
And acid bath and warm fermentation...
Eric Holder is excreting coffee beans?
In the mid 70’s I was traveling Indonesia and would fly out of the domestic airport in Jakarta. After you checked in and went thru security you were in the holding area and there was only one concession..a coffee vendor. It was really great coffee and tasted really good after traveling across town at 4 AM to check in for the first flight. Turns out that the Indonesian’s I was traveling with were aware that this vendor served this special Sumatran coffee..which wasn’t expensive then. It was great. Oldexpats get to tell olde war stories.
The 'harvesting' of this coffee is done by brown-skinned people.
For the Left, nonwhite people cannot be criticized in any way. That is "racism".
PETA's silence will undoubtedly be deafening, despite this Coffee Expo occurring in hard-Left Portland.
Thank you so much for your exceptionally gracious compliment, sincerely appreciated :-)
Now for quality coffees, you have to go to Jamacian Blue Mountain and Kona.
But for day-to-day, I'll stick with my Tres Rios Costa Rican that I roast myself. Best value for high-quality coffee, in my humble opinion. Back when I had real money, I mixed it 75:25 with Kona.
/johnny
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