A Luwak, or Civet (Paradoxurus Hemaphroditus), snuffles through the sweet, red coffe charries fed to him by a keeper at the Perkebunan Nusantra XII plantation in Kalisat village, Bondowoso, Eat Java, Indonesia.
Believed, the Luwak or Civet can select the best coffee beans based on instinct. They can choose the best coffee beans are soft and eat, but only the outside that can be digested, while the rest is discarded along with the dirt. Liquid stool that is believed to enrich the taste is Luwak coffee.
After chewing off the outer casing, or fruit, the civat swallows the hard beans inside. The beans will pass whole through the weasel-like animals digestive tract and eventually be defecated.
Workers will then separate the chalky beans from the rest of the droppings, and once they are cleaned, they will ready for processing into Kopi Luwak, or Civet coffee.
The 20 civets at Perkebunan Nusantara XII produce 700 grams of coffee per animal per day. Kopi Luwak is one of the worlds most expensive and coveted coffees.
In Europe, devotees fork out as much as $700 dollars for a kilogram of the coffee. In Indonesia, drinkers of Kopi Luwak can find themselves paying between Rp. 100.000 and Rp. 250.000 a pot ($10 and $25).
Because the price is quite expensive for a cup of coffee, this coffee it usually come from the particular group or coffee lovers.
Luwak or Civet coffee from Indonesia is very famous ideals it is marketed in many countries - especially Western European countries with a very high price. Coffee in the UK from animal dung is only sold in certain places and high class.
One 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 coffee beans from the ground this way, rather than having to work harder and pick them from the trees? We'll likely never know. But because of the strange method of collecting, there isn't much Kopi Luwak produced in the world. The average total annual production of Kopi Luwak coffee is only around 500 pounds of beans.
Because of the rarity of this kopi Luwak coffee, the price is quite outrageous. If you can find a vendor, the current cost for a pound of Kopi Luwak is around $300 or more. Some more adventurous coffee houses are selling it by the cup, but you won't likely find it at your local coffee shop just yet. The coffee isn't so spectacular that it's truly worth that amount of money. You are paying for the experience of enjoying such an unusual and rare delicacy.































