Kopi Luwak coffee

Roadwarrior

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For Father's day my son sent me a 2 oz sealed bag of 'kopi luwak' coffee from Amazon to try. Of course knowing his sense of humor I told my wife it is probably that monkey coffee. As it turns out I was somewhat right but wrong on the species of animal that consumes the berries & then after passing through their system are harvested from their droppings. It was a 'civet cat' from the far East that processes the berries.

The luak (civet cat), that's a small catlike animal, gorges after dark on the most ripe, the best of our crop. It digests the fruit and expels the beans, which our farm people collect, wash, and roast, a real delicacy. Something about the natural fermentation that occurs in the luak's stomach seems to make the difference. For Javanese, this is the best of all coffees—our Kopi luak.
— Doyo Soeyono Kertosastro, Indonesian Coffee Farmer
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The trial pack I received is listed on Amazon at $16.99 which makes lb priced @ $136. Some brands go as high as $600 a lb. My son said I can now take that off my bucket list.
 

Roadwarrior said:
For Father's day my son sent me a 2 oz sealed bag of 'kopi luwak' coffee from Amazon to try. Of course knowing his sense of humor I told my wife it is probably that monkey coffee. As it turns out I was somewhat right but wrong on the species of animal that consumes the berries & then after passing through their system are harvested from their droppings. It was a 'civet cat' from the far East that processes the berries.



The trial pack I received is listed on Amazon at $16.99 which makes lb priced @ $136. Some brands go as high as $600 a lb. My son said I can now take that off my bucket list.
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I take it you haven't tasted it yet- or have you?
 
The Verdict! - Not the best cup of coffee ever (that distinction goes to a cup I had on a ferry crossing Puget Sound), but not that bad. I think it ties in with the other coffee post I made about shelf life, it was somewhat flat/stale. Maybe if I could have caught it still steaming in the pile, it would have been more robust. Definitely not an $8 cup of coffee. It is now lined out on my bucket list.
 
Roadwarrior said:
The Verdict! - Not the best cup of coffee ever (that distinction goes to a cup I had on a ferry crossing Puget Sound), but not that bad. I think it ties in with the other coffee post I made about shelf life, it was somewhat flat/stale. Maybe if I could have caught it still steaming in the pile, it would have been more robust. Definitely not an $8 cup of coffee. It is now lined out on my bucket list.
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My daughter ordered some of this coffee from Amazon a while back . She had to try it, and she said it was okay; but she didn’t think that it was worth the price either.
I think that she also sent some to her brother to try, and I am not sure how well he liked his sample. Pretty sure she didn’t tell him what it was right away.

As a side note....... she just brought me a little bag of cocoa beans to try. The package said that they were fermented cocoa beans.
Now, I am wondering if the civet cats eat cocoa beans as well as coffee beans ?
 
Happyflowerlady said:
As a side note....... she just brought me a little bag of cocoa beans to try. The package said that they were fermented cocoa beans.
Now, I am wondering if the civet cats eat cocoa beans as well as coffee beans ?
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I’m sure we all have heard about civet coffee (or kopi luwak), but how about civet cocoa?

Well, this is just new. I read in a newspaper that East Java researchers are developing civet cocoa, due to the fact that civet actually prefer cocoa beans to coffee beans, as long as the outer layer of the bean has been peeled off.

As you may already know, cocoa beans are commonly produced through a fermentation process in a box. In order to produce the best chocolate, cocoa fruits are harvested perfectly then cut into half to get the beans. Farmers then do the fermentation and drying processes of cocoa beans before they send it to cocoa processing factory for further development.

In this civet cocoa development, civets will replace the box’s role by eating cocoa beans and fermenting them in their digestive system. Farmers then could collect the fermented cocoa beans after civets pass it out, just like kopi luwak.
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Excerpt from an article from The.Curious.Dessertarian

So I'm going to say yes. Maybe you got the box fermented ones.

On a more important note, I just now returned from the roasters, 1 lb of sumatra ground & 1 lb of sumatra whole beans. Both organic total cost $18.00.
 
After reading your post, RoadWarrior, I immediately went to get my bag of cocoa beans, and see what it said about them. The information is that these come from Peru, and it didn’t say anything except naturally fermented and sun-dried. They are not Indonesian, so probably not harvested from civet cats, and also not as expensive as the coffee beans are.

In any case they are actually pretty good tasting cocoa beans. I make my own fresh almond milk, and today, I added some of the cocoa beans and a bit of the cocoa butter into the almond milk when I put it all in the Vitamix. It made a rich and creamy chocolate almond milk, which I am now having in my iced coffee.
Are you getting Seattle’s Best coffee or some other brand ?
 
Happyflowerlady said:
Are you getting Seattle’s Best coffee or some other brand ?
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Our local roaster does Cafeto coffee, it's sold all over here, My daughter used to get for her cafe (now closed). Loved the freshness & flavor, they sell either directly to the public or businesses. The 2 bags I got today were roasted on Friday, I bought the ground for our drip maker (my wife refuses to grind) & the beans are for me to grind & use my French Press. I'm becoming a coffee snob. The Pacific Northwest is coffee heaven with a kiosk on every corner.

Life is too short for bad coffee.
 
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