With prices ranging between $35 and $100 a cup, or about $100 to $600 a pound, kopi luwak is widely considered to be the most expensive coffee in the world. Indonesian coffee producers have claimed for generations that the kopi luwak method produces the best tasting coffee in the world. Which coffee is most expensive … Read more
kopi luwak coffee comes mostly from Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. And the beans are collected from the droppings of an animal called a civet The coffee used to come from the droppings of wild animals, but now the vast majority comes from civet farms. Does coffee come from an animal? Kopi Luwak coffee comes … Read more
kopi luwak is coffee made from beans that have been digested by a civet cat (i.e. “cat poop coffee“). Balinese farmers have touted for generations that this method produces the best-tasting coffee. But lots of kopi luwak is produced by civets held in disturbing, inhumane conditions. Why do people drink coffee from cat poop? Why … Read more
The rhesus monkeys and Formosan rock macaques who help “process” the beans do not ingest them. Instead, they chew and spit them out onto the ground for people to pick up. That makes monkey coffee more pleasant to think about than so-called “poop coffee,” which is digested by animals like Indonesia’s palm civet. How much … Read more