I had thought that the best coffee would be a Jamaica Blue Mountain ... why Panama? I also thought that the most expensive coffee was the one made with monkey poo.
It would be just drinking the most expensive cup of bile to me.
Not worth the price, even if I was a coffee drinker.
Seventy-five dollars a cup?
That’s peanuts compared to ‘civet cat’ coffee,
which goes for twenty-five dollars a GRAM.
The story of kopi luwak has a certain repulsive charm. A shy cat-like wild creature wanders out of the Sumatran jungle at night onto a coffee plantation and selects only the finest, ripest coffee cherries to eat. Only it can’t digest the stone (the coffee bean) and craps them out, its anal glands imparting an elusive musky smoothness to the resultant roasted coffee.
There was a super expensive coffee a while back where the beans were plucked from some kind of squirrel poop. Supposedly passing through the squirill (or whatever critter it was) enhanced the coffee in some wonderous way. None for me, thanks.
I thought it was made from beans that were first consumed and then pooped out by a weasel.
One really can’t truly enjoy a cup of coffee unless it has been sh*t out of a civit.
“I had thought that the best coffee would be a Jamaica Blue Mountain ... why Panama?”
That and Hawaii Kona are the best I have had. I did have a great coffee in Argentina. It was served in an espresso cup. I laughed and asked for a regular sized cup. Took a day and a half to come down from the rush.
Vietnamese Robusta is about as good a cup of coffee as you can get and it is only more expensive than the Vietnamese Arabica which is very like Kona which used to sell for 100 a pound before the VN competition drove it down. You can get the VN Arabica at Dollar Tree at 6 oz for a buck in the Mountain High brand. Spending 75 for a cup of coffee is merely showing that you are very wealthy and do not choose to touch your lips to something that mere mortals would drink. VN coffee is grown in the best conditions there are outside like those in Ethiopia and Hawaii and is cheap because there is so much of it exported. it is also why instant coffee now is much less harsh than it used to be. Same for cheap Decaf. Both are made from the cheapest beans available and now have a large admixture of VN.