Luwak is a small catlike animal (also known as Civet), which gorges after dark on the most ripe, the best of our coffee fruit. It digests the fruit and expels the beans, which luwak coffee farm people collect, wash, and roast, and make it to most expensive coffee beans. Something about the natural fermentation that occurs in the luwak’s stomach seems to make the difference. For the record, as suggested by few friends, we tried this most expensive coffee. BTW, it wasn’t expensive compared to Starbucks in HYD. We paid INR 250 for one cup of Luwak coffee, shared by 3 of us. Pics from our Luwak coffee Plantation tour are here. Kopi luwak is produced mainly on the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago. It is also widely gathered in the forest or produced in the farms in the islands of the Philippines
Kopi luwak or civet coffee, refers to the coffee that includes part-digested coffee cherries eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet. Producers of the coffee beans argue that the process may improve coffee through two mechanisms, selection and digestion. Selection occurs if the civets choose to eat cherries. Digestive mechanisms may improve the flavor profile of the coffee beans that have been eaten. The civet eats the cherries for the fleshy pulp, then in the digestive tract, fermentation occurs. The civet’s protease enzymes seep into the beans, making shorter peptides and more free amino acids.
Although kopi luwak is a form of processing rather than a variety of coffee, it has been called one of the most expensive coffees in the world with retail prices reaching €550 / US$700 per kilogram.[8] The price of farmed kopi luwak in large Indonesian supermarkets is from US$100 per kilogram. (Source: Wiki)
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This is an awesome post. I like all the one-of-a-kind pictures and the fact that you actually got to go on a tour. I’ve read a lot about Kopi Luwak since it has been touted as the most expensive cup of coffee and I’m in the coffee industry. I just recently found a more expensive option, and it doesn’t involve poop. It goes for over $900 a cup in Japan because of its 22 year old aged beans, and you can read about it here if you like: https://matchmadecoffee.com/the-munch-coffee-in-japan-costs-900/
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If I may, I would like to leave a suggestion for the real coffee entusiast, who sometimes -or often, buys expensive or luxurious coffee 🙂
The question is first, why very few considers matching the high quality of the coffee bean, to, what is actually the major ingredient in coffee, namely “water”.
I would therefore suggest to try brewing your next cup of coffee with an ultra purified type of water, that is not only pure on the macro-level, but also one that is pure when it comes to the hydrogen isotopes inside the water.
Such water is called deuterium depleted water, where the heavy and mitochondria hurting hydrogen isotope, called Deuterium, has been reduced substantially.
This lowered level of deuterium will make the water health promoting, instead of just hydrating.
This may sound odd, but the science on this is quite solid. It increases ATP output potential, increases antioxidants, reduces DNA damages, increases Vo2-max in sports people, reduces restitution time, increases detox and anti-aging compounds in the body. ….Just to name a very few benefits.
This type of water is rare and costly to make, due to the distillation needed, but it is worth it.
It is truly the worlds most luxurious and health promoting water to use for any high quality coffee or for everyone who would like to offer something out of the ordinary or a quality above anything out there.
Check out the benefits and published studies and see for yourself:
https://DeuteriumDepletedWaterResearch.com
All the best. 🙂
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