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Meanderer said:
Grinding our own beans does guarantee a fresher tasting cup of coffee, Ruthanne. We have a small Kitchen Aid coffee grinder, that resembles a small wide mouth thermos, that can grind beans to make up to 12 cups.

The coffee will taste even better if you get a slow-speed burr grinder. A high-speed grinder generates heat that burns the coffee & burned coffee gets bitter.
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There is one coffee I haven't tried, because I don't have the courage to drink it.

My nephew brought back some of it from Hawaii. It sat on my counter for years & I never opened the bag.

It's called Kopi luwak, or civet coffee, refers to the coffee that includes part-digested coffee cherries eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). Producers of the coffee beans argue that the process may improve coffee through two mechanisms, selection and digestion. Selection occurs if the civets choose to eat cherries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
 
What Kopi Luwak is and why you should avoid it.


"The Problems with Kopi Luwak today are serious for so many reasons it’s a miracle there is still a market for it. First of all, more than 80% of all coffee sold as Kopi Luwak today is fake. It hasn’t even been near a civet cat, much less through one. Should you, however, manage to get your hands on the real deal, you’ll be drinking what amounts to nothing short of liquid suffering."

"Why? Because civet cats are small animals without voracious appetites. They’re nocturnal, solitary, and live in the rainforest. Harvesting real, free range Kopi Luwak is more or less like hunting for poo truffles, with a much smaller payoff. The obvious thing to do to capitalise on the hype, then, was to industrialise the production."

"The animals are caged and force-fed these caffeine-laden coffee cherries all day, every day. Remember how the crux of Kopi Luwak was the uniformly ripe cherries? Not so here. So even if you overlook the fact that this kind of coffee—itself an honest-to-God vegan product—has somehow felt the need to incorporate a bit of animal suffering, you’re not even getting the flavours that set it apart in the first place."

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