Most Expensive Coffee in the World
Written by: tom Filed Under: Food, Luxury, World on December 22nd, 2005The most expensive coffee in the world does not hail from Jamaica or Hawaii, but instead from Indonesia.
Kopi Luwak the most expensive coffee in the world does exist, and those who drink the expensive coffee insist that it is made from coffee beans eaten, partly digested and then excreted by the Common palm civet, a weasel-like animal.
“Kopi” the Indonesian word for coffee along with “luwak” is local name of this animal which eats the raw red coffee beans. The civet digests the soft outer part of the coffee cherry, but does not digest the inner beans and excretes them.
Apparently the internal digestion ends up adds a unique flavor to the beans, removing the bitter flavor, and then beans are then picked up by locals and sold. The most expensive coffee beans can cost up to $600 a pound, and up to $50 per cup, if you can get over the fact that you are drinking such a strange brew.
You would know if you drank the most expensive coffee in the world, because the quantities of it are tiny amounts.
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absoulutely disgusting!!! I dont care how expensive it is!
well this coffe is pertty damn good!!!hahaha a girl 4rm palm desert
I have myself tasted it. It’s devine flavor can’t becompared with anyother. You are insipid untill you have experienced an encounter with some
i saw that on TV and it really is disgusting!!! i’ll stick to my starbucks…
AWESOME! GIVE ME GIVE ME!!
mmmm dung
I live in Seattle and I won’t drink that Starbuck’s swill. Eww.
I have to wonder how a coffeehouse might go about importing some of that for retail sale?
Civet cat coffee has been in existence in the Philippine jungles for decades. It has been popular here ever since. I guess Asians have the true best coffees in the world due to its geography, soil texture and climate
Hmmm, anyone want to sift through my kitty litter box for some leftovers to brew … Now, how much will you pay???
Is it now?
I wonder what cafe sells it highest per cup.
I’d love to take a trip there.
=D
hell no i aint eating poop
i believe that that coffee is found in the philippines and not in indonesia.. or maybe i am wrong.. but i have watched documentaries and there…
Ok, guys. Get over the eating of poop. Guess what milk is? Milk is essentially the same as blood, only white. Eggs are, as my friend once pointed out to me, a chicken’s period. So what? In the meantime, the coffee beans are roasted and ground and passed through boiling hot water to make coffee. Ergo, no “poop” in your coffee. I’d love to try it someday, if I could find out who sells it!
Geisha Coffee from Panama is the second best & most expensive coffee in the world and does not have to go through this “animal process”;) so I guess it is PANAMA that has the best coffee in the World.
I’ve had it before. It’s delicious. I know a guy who bought several ounces of it.
I would drink it. You can try anything once.
How unique… I wouldn’t be afraid to try some. It doesn’t sound that bad. Sounds a lot better than chicken carcass rice wine I saw on the travel channel a few days ago. I really wondered how they stuffed whole chickens down a jug. Creepy.
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It is funny how humans are so skittish about certain things like Kopi Luwak Most us eat from restaurants and you can be assured that not all workers wash their hands when they should, I have to complain to managements of restaurants about workers that I have witnessed not washing their hands. We all go to eateries and order food which is handled by attends that handle money and the food with out washing their hands. Money is one of the filthiest things we pass around. There is a proverb in Jamaica
” Scornful dog eat dirty pudding.” These beans are washed, parched or roasted and brewed with intense heat. I would gladly drink some of this coffee!
Douglas R. Ewart 12/19/2007
The reason the coffee is considered the finest in the world is because the Civet eats only the absolute ripest of beans. So essentially, you’re getting a cup of handpicked, hand-shelled beans. Except instead of hands, it’s an anus. But as someone said, the things are roasted at hundreds of degrees then nearly boiled. There would be absolutely no smell, taste, texture, or remnants of any kind of poop.
I’m actually ordering some right now! Can’t wait to try it.
It’s on the movie the bucket list haha. Sounds gross but i have heard it tastes good.
I am not sure if I would taste it or not. I guess if I would smell it brewing in the kitchen in the morning and it smelled good to me I would try it no matter where it came from. Just for a giggle watch the movie ‘The Bucket List” Where Jack Nicholson drinks it and has a great laugh near the end of the movie over the beverage. It is natural and I have seen people totally pollute there bodies with things I would never.
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I thought Starbuck’s was the most expensive coffee in the world. And it tastes like crap, too.
Wow! I though Blue Mountain is the most expensive coffee! Not a coffee lover but amazed all the same!
They also say the civets pee taste like the best lemonade you ever tasted at $20.00 an ounce
Gonna buy me some coffee beans, and some civets
here in my country ( philippines) that coffee bean is called “Alamid” and it is really a poop from the same named animal ‘alamid’. for the record, this animal is only fed by coffee bean itself and cultured. i myself enjoys drinking this coffee. for the price? 1 cup = Php1500, or $150 per cup =D ….
enjoy^^
I wouldn’t drink civet poop if you paid me.
you’ll wonder how they’d came up with this idea, drying coffee beans and brewing from animals poop that turns out good and be the most expensive one. hurrrah!!!!
Why can’t I eat them beans and poop them out myself? If the civet can do it and make pricey coffee, so can I !
This coffee confirms the golden rule, there are clients for everything.
i am indonesian, and this kinda coffee is very popular here. However, the population of the animal is declining…
Kopi Luwak become the most expensive coffee in the not because its taste good.It is because this product is very rare. Whole Indonesia only produce 800KG per annum
wow that is quite disterbing some things are better left unknown lol
In the Netherlands it’s not that expensive, say US 100 for 100 grams. It’s really good but neither the best nor the most expensive coffee you can get here.
I have to correct you guys on this…Chuck Norris makes the most expensive coffee in the world. He poops the civet that poops the beans that makes your coffee so good and high priced.
Sorry, Dewayne, but we’re only counting coffee that the human body can contain.
Kopi Luwak is definitely from Indonesia..it is not from Philippines..
as the name is kopi luwak,,kopi means coffe in Indonesian,and luwak is the animal’s name.
But maybe Philippines has a kind of coffe like this too.
it is expensive not only because it is rare,but also the smell and taste of it.
The animal,Luwak only choose the best coffe bean,it has instinct to choose the best coffe bean. That’s why Kopi Luwak tastes soooo goood
Well,,if you come to Indonesia,you can try the other coffe,there are many other coffe in Indonesia which smell and taste super good with low price.
This coffee is nothing special. The experience is similar to any average coffee you will find at your local grocery store. I had big expentations but every place I have tried this brew it has let me down.
I need a monkey to feed beans to.
okay guys listen my m0m has 18 pounds of this and has a bunch of other things from this website
Have actually tried it at the coffee plantation in Bali, it wasn’t strained properly so it was a bit grainy, but the flavour was OK. The animal that does the deed is actually a bit like a raccoon or possum. Still prefer my favourite coffee shop Kafenio in Cronulla.
the people who harvest the digested beans don’t really have to pick through cat litter to get it. The animal processes the beans and excretes them whole, unscratched, and without dung.
The animal is a palm civet, a dark brown tree-dwelling cat-like creature found throughout Southeast Asia. The scientific name is paradoxurus hermaphroditus.
So just Enjoy the coffee….
the palm civet just happens to like to ingest the ripest and reddest coffee beans, which also happen to be the ones best for brewing. The cat eats the outer covering of the beans in the same way that is accomplished by de-pulping machines. Something happens to the beans in the journey through the cat’s intestines that gives it a flavor that is celebrated by coffee drinkers
so Enjoy…
no thanks !!
would die but never try !!
I would try it. U never know. I mean we eat pig. A pig rolls in crap and would eat another pig. We drink milk, and its from another animals breast. Now thats sick.
lol, i’m from indonesia, and even my self didn’t realize it. i thought i always go to starbucks coz i’m bored of local coffee, and thats including kopi luwak. i guess i should try it again. since somehow i’m missing one of the best thing in coffee business.
dat stuff looks good i love eatin poop any ways
1 post too late, was gonna say… there are some wierd individuals out there like cassidy who would pay good money to drink any simple poo cocktail! lol
I’ve been cramming whole bean coffee down my cat’s throat for some time now. I think ebay is a great place to originate a new strain of coffee called “American Feline Anusbus”) and sell it for (”Buy It Now!”) $500/lb.–a bargain when considered that the civet poop bags $600.
I’m not a coffee fun but I went to Indonesia and cheked as it was cheaper than a Starbucks Caramel Machiato Ventti from Amsterdam Airport……..and the tast of this coffee I need to admit that is excelent. No need for sugar and is not leaving in your mouth any strange taste as the normal coffee. Strongly recommended if you visit Indonesia but ask some local guys from where to buy it because in 5****** restaurants they will charge you with a fortune for the same stuff…
I live in Indonesia and there is a small equivalent to Starbucks that is actually called Coffe Luwak, the coffe is a little bit more expensive than a regular coffe, the thruth is I foubd out where the coffe came from after a few months of regular drinking, so it was not a real shock.
I tried coffe from West Papua, it has a lot of caracter and is quite good also. Hope theses guys will be able to export it, it is cultured in a remote mmountainous area, and the beans have to be flown out there.
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If you think starbucks tates like sh*t, imagine how poop tastes like!
I had a chance to try some last week, and it was amazingly good. And because they have to be so meticulous about cleaning it, it actually has less bacteria than regular mass-produced coffee.
Now to find an authentic source for it. There are tons of web sites claiming to sell it, but like everything else, most are fakes, everything from pre-picked beans fed to caged civets, to regular flavored coffee in fancy bags.
ive tasted it before its really sweet and you really do not need to put in sugar r nothing but i liked it the first couple of sips then it just got to sweet for me i dont know why though