PHThe world's most expensive coffee
comes from animal feces
Kopi Luwak, the world’s most expensive
coffee, earns its pricey distinction thanks to a
surprising step in its production: digestion.
In Indonesia, a wild animal known as the Asian
palm civet (a small critter similar to the
weasel) cannot resist the bright red coffee
cherries that abound, even though they can’t
digest the actual coffee beans. The beans pass
through the civets' systems without being fully
digested. At which point, some brave coffee
farmer collects the beans from the civets’
droppings, (hopefully) thoroughly washes
them, and sells them for more than
$600 per pound.
If a pound is too expensive for you, you could buy a cup for $50. Taste Profile: Like Kopi Luwak, it is a rich arabica flavor with full body but extreme mellowness –more so than Kopi Luwak due to the longer time in contact with the, um, stomach acids in an elephant
Source:Facts&trivia
~Professora Hakimi Kazumi
Asianism
comes from animal feces
Kopi Luwak, the world’s most expensive
coffee, earns its pricey distinction thanks to a
surprising step in its production: digestion.
In Indonesia, a wild animal known as the Asian
palm civet (a small critter similar to the
weasel) cannot resist the bright red coffee
cherries that abound, even though they can’t
digest the actual coffee beans. The beans pass
through the civets' systems without being fully
digested. At which point, some brave coffee
farmer collects the beans from the civets’
droppings, (hopefully) thoroughly washes
them, and sells them for more than
$600 per pound.
If a pound is too expensive for you, you could buy a cup for $50. Taste Profile: Like Kopi Luwak, it is a rich arabica flavor with full body but extreme mellowness –more so than Kopi Luwak due to the longer time in contact with the, um, stomach acids in an elephant
Source:Facts&trivia
~Professora Hakimi Kazumi
Asianism
salamat sa trivia ^^ dumi pala yan.