The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #87165   Message #1625348
Posted By: bobad
11-Dec-05 - 09:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: Coffee
Subject: RE: BS: Coffee
Anybody here tried Kopi Luwak coffee, possibly the ultimate in coffee snobbery. Here is a description :

This is the rarest and most definitely extraordinary coffee in the world! This coffee has been selected for us by paradoxurus hermaphroditis. Better known as the Common Palm Civet Cat. It prowls the Sumatran coffee plantations at night, choosing to eat only the finest, ripest cherries. The stones (which eventually form coffee beans) are then collected by cleaning through the droppings.

Kopi Luwak as it is known, is considered to be the finest coffee by native Sumatrans. Kopi Luwak has a rich chocolate like flavour and no aftertaste, which is unique. This flavour is due to the fact the coffee has been partially fermented by passing through the digestive system of the Kopi. Only about 50 kilos of this coffee is collected per year making it the ultimate in uniqueness and rarity!