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Movie buffs who recently saw the Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson movie, the Bucket List; have been digging up on kopi luwak coffee, that exotic and expensive brew that Jack’s character indulges on in the movie. If you happen to be one them and are wondering about this kopi luwak coffee, here are three things you ought to know… it is said (as I personally have not tried it yet) that it is unlike any other brew, it is pricey, and is actually harvested from the excreta of an endangered Asian forest animal called the Civet.

What is Kopi Luwak Coffee?
Kopi Luwak Coffee, also known as Civet coffee is coffee that is made from coffee berries that have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract (yes crapped out) of the Asian Palm Civet. The civets eat the berries but the beans pass through their system undigested.

The raw, red coffee berries are part of the Civet’s diet, a staple that goes with insects, small mammals, small reptiles, bird eggs and fruit. It is believed that enzymes in the civet’s stomach add to kopi luak coffee’s flavor, by breaking down the proteins that give coffee its bitter taste. The beans are excreted covered in some inner layers of the berry, and are then washed and given a light roast to retain the complex flavors developed through the process.

While these beans were once collected from the wild in the early days, today captured civets are fed the raw berries, and the excreta produced are then processed into the coffee beans offered for sale.

The main sources of kopi luwak beans are Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in Indonesia. However there is a similar process found in the Philippines, where the coffee beans are ingested and excreted by bats. The beans are said to be of excellent quality, even before they are ingested by the civet, but that does not downplay the role the enzymes have in contributing to its unique flavor. These coffee berries grow in the mountainous regions of South East Asia.

How Much Kopi Luwak Coffee Cost?
Kopi Luac Coffee is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling between $120 and $600 USD per pound.

Where to Buy Kopi Luwak Online?

I spent a great deal of time looking for a site where I could purchase authentic Kopi luac and finally found a site that has it in stock, click this kopi luwak link to check it out.

Thats Kopi Luwak Coffee for you, an expensive and exotic tasting coffee with a tummy turning twist.

What are other people saying about kopi luwak?

Kopi luwak, not luwak coffee. Why? Because kopi luwak is the name of coffee`s variety. If we want to call it in complete, it would be coffee Kopi luwak even coffee mean kopi in Indonesian. Read More.

It’s not surprising that you probably haven’t heard of Kopi Luwak coffee. For one thing, only 500 pounds of beans are produced a year. For another, it’s about $200/lb and upper crust espresso shops sell it for about $50 a shot. Read More.

According to a Canadian food scientist named Massimo Marcone 42% of the Kopi Luwak available for sale is “either adulterated or complete fakes, unfortunately”. I always thought the percentage was higher than that, but I suppose I am cynical. Read More.

We heard of a very special coffee that was all the rage of the Hollywood elite, and at $65 a cup it’s definitely a luxury. The rare Kopi Luwak coffee brew is truly like nothing we’ve ever had before (and we drink A LOT of coffee), but what makes it so good, and so exceptionally hard to find? Read More.

This special coffee has someting todo with a civet. Actually it’s very simple. The civets live on the island of Sumatera, Java and Sulawesi where the coffee finally comes from. Read More.

Caffeine junkies in Australia can now drink the Grange Hermitage of coffee, the cat’s meow of their favorite bean — cat’s poo coffee. Called Kopi Luwak, it’s an Indonesian coffee made from the feces of a Luwak — a small cat-like creature native to the Australia’s coffee-growing regions. Read More.

My friend Toby writes to ask if I’ve tried kopi luwak, the novelty coffee made from cherries digested by civet cats. The coffee was recently featured in the LA Times, resulting in the usual wave of interest.  I haven’t tried it, mainly because there’s a lot of fraudulent beans sold as kopi luwak and because I don’t even know if the real stuff is sold freshly roasted. That and the fact that I don’t have $600 lying around in my coffee budget. Even so, I would drink it if I had the chance. Read More.
How does something resembling a weasel play a role in making coffee that can command up to $600/lb. at retail? Simple–the luwak eats coffee cherries right off the tree, which ferment as they pass through the luwak’s digestive tract. The partially digested coffee seeds are then removed from the luwak’s droppings, cleaned, and processed. You read that right. This coffee is made from animal poop. Read More.

Viral Marketing makes people drink… Cat Poop! Read More.

Have you heard about the world’s most expensive coffee?  This is a unique story.  It’s called Kopi Luwak (or Civet coffee), and it’s from Indonesia and the Philippines.  It sells for between $120 and $600 per pound.  One restaurant in Australia sells it for $50 per cup.  It’s sold mainly in Japan and the United States. Read More.

If you like you’re coffee smooth, silky and expensive, you might want to get yourself a cup of De’Longhi Caffe Raro which retails for£50 ($100) per cup.This blend combines two of the world’s rarest coffee beans, KopiLuwak and Jamaican Blue Mountain to give a truly luxurious cup of coffee. Read More.

Kopi-luwak (aka civet eats and then defecates the coffee cherries yada yada)- so just try to ignore that part as it’s more hype than quality.  I don’t want to get into a lengthy post about my feelings on this subject, but I’ll try to explain briefly.  Some coffees are expensive because they taste great in the cup, and some coffees are expensive because they have very exotic processing defects that people will pay an exorbitant amount just to say that they’ve tried it (poop coffee). Read More.

According to Drs. Myron Mitchell & Sylvia Johnson of the Ouianuc Center for Social Sciences, most claims of keyboards being destroyed by the nexus of a cardboard venti cup of steaming hot Kopi Luwak and an unexpected comment- section bon mot are at best exaggerated, and most likely complete fabrications. Read More.

WTF??? I am sure you are probably all saying, well Caphe cut chon is a vietnamese coffee that is collected from the ground of Vietnamese coffee plantations (a similar coffee is avaliable in Indonesia and is called Kopi Luwak). The very best (supposingly) coffee cherries are picked out by the Palm Civet, the berries are then excreted semi digested. Read More.

Working with the African civet (Civettictis civetta) and later with the Indonesian civets, Prof. Marcone observed that the beans are slightly digested during their passage, to the extent that an enzyme process has broken down some of the proteins allowing them to leach out, resulting in a less bitter coffee. Read More.

Muruk Coffee — a curious project in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea may have the civet cat looking for a new gig. The idea: feed ripe coffee cherries to the cassowary bird, collect its droppings, and process the “naturally fermented” coffee beans for a unique and rare coffee taste sensation. A sensation, we imagine, that might be sold for a silly price to silly people.  Read More.

A quarter of a pound costs about 75 dollars. An unusual small animal lives on Java and Sumatra coffee plantation - its name Luwak (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). It eats only ripe coffee-beans. Luwak cannot digest a coffee seed and gets rid of it naturally. Local aborigines gather such coffee seeds carefully and the most expensive coffee in the world is prepared of them.  Read More.

Technically speaking, they don’t call it “cat’s ass coffee”, although they might as well. The official name, Kopi Luwak, roughly translates to “luwak’s coffee”, where a luwak is a Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, also called a Toddy cat. Read More.

I’m sure that most of you have had a good “haw-haw” over “kopi luwak” where coffee is made from coffee cherries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet. Well, my favorite purveyor of all things coffee, Sweet Maria’s, has thrown their shot in the weird coffee arena. Let me introduce you to Jacu Bird coffee. Read More.

There’s a type of Indonesian coffee called Kopi Luwak, ‘luwak’ being the Indonesian civet cat that roams the archipelago and is reputed to eat only the best coffee beans. The undigested luwak beans are collected from its droppings and then processed. Read More.

I find that adding the dung back into my kopi luwak makes it taste more interesting, and pleasantly fibrous. Read More.

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