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Kopi Luwak features in the film bucket list. ...its rather funny!
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I couldnt find any Kopi Luwak at that pommie site, but $7.00 for 125Gm of Kopi Luwak ... I wish.
Mandailing Estate do it for $77 AUD for 50 gm http://www.mandailingestate.com.au/Content/Products/
These guys only do the WILD Kopi Luwak though, not caged ... I guess thats eco friendly.
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I can see all the pretentious gits drinking the stuff because it is expensive. ;D
I think I will give it a miss. I am not sure if I would like my coffee after it has passed through an animals gut (we really need a vomity smiley)
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I have read about a farm where they file the teeth of the little carnivores, yoke them in wooden racks and force feed them the coffee cheeries(a la Goose Liver), this produces a compressed "stream" of beans free from any other digested material(the civet has a varied diet ordinarily).
This has significantly increased the yield of the bean to satisfy the US market. Ill fish around for the link.
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This topic has been around before. Check this link http://www.animalcoffee.com/.
At least you get a certified turd with the coffee. Might be worth putting it in a popper for real home-roasted shit.
Actually, they sell greens...or is it browns.
Holy crap... I noticed that these dudes live just down the road. I wonder if they have a sample...
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Well, this just made it onto Brisbanes channel 10 news .....
So hopefully this will make it into the next round of Beanbay. :-*
Maybe we can get it for less than $1250 per kg ??? ;D
Belinda
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[smiley=tekst-toppie.gif]Originally posted by Bart link=1115785625/0#13 date=1162527683Considering that the civet is a cat like creature, one can only assume that Kopi Luwak would make an excellent "CATPOOCHINO!" ;D
Bart.
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Considering that the civet is a cat like creature, one can only assume that Kopi Luwak would make an excellent "CATPOOCHINO!" ;D
Bart.
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Im guessing they found the first beans after they were washed free by rain.Originally posted by davwhite link=1115785625/0#1 date=1115786629One must wonder about the circumstances that brought about the first cup of Kopi Luwak coffee. Who would think to (or even want to) collect and roast beans out of animal feces? Perhaps a native figured it was easier to collect the beans from the ground this way, rather than having to work harder and pick them from the trees? Well likely never know.
As an aside, I play an online game and am using the name Kopi Luwak this time around. ;D
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Than there will be free range or cage cats. Organic fed. The possibilities are endless really.
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Wait for the clever bastard who decides you can create farmed Kopi Luwak. The we can all enjoy the debate about whether it is better from the wild or the farm. . .
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I have been to plenty of cafes where the coffee has been crap and paid less than 3 dollars for it. I dont like cats so I dont think I would drink something that has gone through their digestive system.
I think there was a bad miss in the article. They said rarer than diamonds, could have been rarer than rocking horse poo!
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Yeah riiiiight... :
. I see a jar of the stuff (500g maybe) which has been sitting around going stale for months.....or...maybe equally well, a pack of stale pods....And then what happens when they get the shot wrong and you send it back because it tastes like a cup o merde?? ;D
All sounds like catdust to me
2mcm
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Mmmm... smooth as cat shit
FYI - story in Courier Mail newspaper, Brisbane, 2 Nov 2006
So much for Queensland not being cultured
by Melissa Maugeri
"The state now boasts the nations most expensive cup of coffee, and it comes courtesy of the digestive tract of a cat-like creature from the jungles of Indonesia.
The rare Kopi Luwak coffee brew will soon be on the menu at Herveys Range Heritage Tea Rooms, about 40 minutes west of Townsville – for $50 a cup.
The beans for the exclusive brew are retrieved from the droppings of the luwak, a cat-like member of the civet family which is found in Indonesias Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi.
Luwaks like eating ripe coffee cherries, but are apparently particular about which ones they choose – seeking out only the most luscious.
The inner bean is not digested, meaning they can be retrieved from the luwak poo.
The beans are then washed and given only a light roast so as to not destroy the complex flavours which develop through the whole process – and then sold for up to $1250 per kg.
Fans of the brew say the luwaks stomach enzymes break down proteins in the beans, making a smoother brew with no bitterness.
Dutch coffee connoisseur Bob Dam has described the coffee as having a fine chocolate aroma which "tastes delicious at the back of the throat".
Heritage Tea Rooms owner Allan Sharpe reckons the coffee beans are rarer than diamonds.
"Weve spoken to our import company and to our knowledge we are the only cafe in Australia selling this coffee," he said.
"Im not kidding myself that well sell heaps but people come here for an experience and many dont mind paying for that – it is a beautiful coffee."
The Sharpes initially imported 4.5kg of Kopi Luwak, almost 2 per cent of this years production. But for those who arent willing to part with $50 for a cuppa, Mrs Sharpe says the cafes standard $3.50 espresso is a fine alternative."
Bancroft
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