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World's most expensive coffee is processed through a cat (Yes, you read that correctly)
KOMO / KATU ^ | April 21, 2012 | Kerry Tomlinson

Posted on 04/21/2012 8:22:39 PM PDT by Stoat

PORTLAND, Ore. - This coffee can cost as much as $700 a pound and $80 a cup, and it is processed through the digestive system of a cat.

It's said to be the most expensive coffee in the world and it was served up Friday at the International Coffee Expo in Northeast Portland.

An Indonesian company brews it here as it is done in cafes in Jakarta. 

"It is very delicious, very smooth and so luxurious," said Valerie Sindal, director of sales and marketing for ValBeMar Specialty Coffee.

Coffee cherries are eaten by Civet cats, processed through their digestive system, and the beans are harvested on the other side. According to ValBeMar's website, the Civets, found in the islands of Java and Sumatra, can’t digest the fruit’s inner beans and they are excreted whole.

The beans are collected from the cat droppings, cleaned and roasted just like any other coffee bean. But the fermentation process while inside the stomach of the cat is the key to its exquisite taste, according to the company.

"If I could drink it every day, I would," Sindal said.

What does the most expensive coffee in the world that’s been through the body of a cat taste like? Well, it’s unique, but balanced and smooth.

The coffee has a rich history. Three hundred years ago Dutch colonizers banned the Indonesians from drinking coffee. But the Indonesians found these beans and used them as a substitute. The coffee has gone from a poor man’s drink to a rich man’s brew.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beverages; cats; civet; civetcat; civets; coffee; droppings; gourmet; gourmetcoffee; indonesia; java; kitteh; manure; poop; portland
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To: Army Air Corps

I can just see one of those spit-takes when someone has that coffee in their mouth and another person told them where it came from.

I’m not that big on coffee,anyway. It gives me heartburn.


21 posted on 04/21/2012 8:50:34 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (I love you so much,Pumpkin. You're the best cat in the world.)
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To: Chode

In this case I think I’d say about the same thing.


22 posted on 04/21/2012 8:50:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN
I love coffee and I am known to be somewhat adventurous with food, but I am not keen on consuming something that was picked out of an animal's dung.
23 posted on 04/21/2012 8:55:43 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

This featured in that Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman movie about death, some years back...


24 posted on 04/21/2012 8:56:28 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Study closely socialist Hugo Chavez' usage of 'popular masses' in the streets to thwart 1992 coup)
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To: JRandomFreeper
It's not that great.

I imagine that this is mainly about marketing and the power of suggestion, with a target audience of people who have more money than sense and who want to be able to have something 'exotic' to talk about at cocktail parties.

25 posted on 04/21/2012 8:56:53 PM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: Mr. K
if this coffee tastes so dam good you would think someone would mimic the ‘process’?

And acid bath and warm fermentation...

I think that the US Patent Office would be delighted to issue a patent for a Civet Digestive Replicator  ;-)

26 posted on 04/21/2012 9:00:30 PM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: PAR35
So, if one gets too snooty to drink burned coffee with other coffee snobs, they can upgrade to cat feces?

 

I'm guessing that the typical Civet would be a lot more fun to spend time with than the generic facially-pierced Starbucks barista  :-)

27 posted on 04/21/2012 9:04:00 PM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: Stoat

I would never give coffee to a cat. Poor thing might only sleep 20 hours a day.


28 posted on 04/21/2012 9:04:57 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Army Air Corps

“America Runs on Dunkin’”


29 posted on 04/21/2012 9:20:34 PM PDT by Former War Criminal (Who am I? Why am I here?)
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To: Stoat
I've dealt with that crowd. And I've cooked for them. And overcharged them horribly.

You are absolutely correct.

I can import my Tres Rios and roast it myself for less than I can buy Folgers. Of course, I have contacts, and I know what time of year to buy coffee to get the best price and best quality. It's good to be the cook. ;)

/johnny

30 posted on 04/21/2012 9:24:46 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Slings and Arrows
LOL! Beer on the keyboard through the nose.

/johnny

31 posted on 04/21/2012 9:25:44 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: windcliff; onedoug

Ping


32 posted on 04/21/2012 9:26:16 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
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To: Slings and Arrows
I would never give coffee to a cat. Poor thing might only sleep 20 hours a day.

Indeed, and it might develop an interest in interest in a punk band named "Civet"

Civet - -You Get What You Pay For- --Official Video-- - YouTube

 


33 posted on 04/21/2012 9:36:10 PM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: Stoat
Three hundred years ago Dutch colonizers banned the Indonesians from drinking coffee.

Ok that is just mean!

34 posted on 04/21/2012 9:37:32 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (In most cases, revenge is not a good thing. In other cases, it's the only thing.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

...............This featured in that Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman movie about death, some years back...............

The Bucket List! Great flick, but then all movies with Morgan Freeman are great!


35 posted on 04/21/2012 9:45:12 PM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: Stoat

Anyone can make a fantastic cup of coffee out of a regular supermarket blend of whatever you like.

Get an Aerobie coffee maker for 25 bucks - amazon has them now for free shipping. Follow the directions. The key is getting the water to around 180 degrees. Not too hot to activate the tannens in the coffee and make it bitter. The coffee turns out great.


36 posted on 04/21/2012 9:48:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: RightOnline

Beat me to it... first thing that came to mindafter reading the title. Just imagine how this “delicacy” was discovered. Just try and imagine the thought process and conversation that took place to come up with this bright idea and the discussions which took place as to what to say when MARKETING this S@&$!


37 posted on 04/21/2012 9:48:16 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord deliver us from evil, in Jesus name, amen.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Costa Rican is quite good - somewhat similar to the Guatemalan that I really love. Community Coffee actually has a pretty good Guatemalan available.


38 posted on 04/21/2012 9:49:02 PM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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To: Stoat

I would think that people having a heightened interest in things coming out of anuses, fecal fetishes, of just have otherwise boring lives and having nothing else interesting to say, may gravitate towards a coffee like this.

Fill in the blank as to who you think fit those groups.


39 posted on 04/21/2012 9:53:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: RightOnline

Reminds you of a certain recent South Park episode? Stan becomes a cynical a$$hole?


40 posted on 04/21/2012 9:54:27 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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