Cat Sh*t Coffee

[o803oVaDeR]

Kopi Luwak

Apparently it is the most expensive coffee in the world. Selling for US$100 to $600 per pound. Starbucks is missing out.

Coffee cherries are eaten by a civet (a cat like critter) for their fruit pulp. After spending about a day and a half in the civet's digestive tract the beans are then defecated in clumps, having kept their shape and still covered with some of the fleshy berry's inner layers. They are gathered, thoroughly washed, sun dried and given only a light roast so as to keep the many intertwined flavors and lack of bitterness yielded inside the civet.

Research by food scientists have showed that the civet's endogenous digestive secretions seep into the beans. These secretions carry proteolytic enzymes which break down the beans' proteins, yielding shorter peptides and more free amino acids. Since the flavor of coffee owes much to its proteins, there is a hypothesis that this shift in the numbers and kinds of proteins in beans after being swallowed by civets brings forth their unique flavor. The proteins are also involved in non-enzymatic Maillard browning reactions brought about later by roasting. Moreover, while inside a civet the beans begin to germinate by malting which also lowers their bitterness.

Coffee critic Chris Rubin has said, "The aroma is rich and strong, and the coffee is incredibly full bodied, almost syrupy. It’s thick with a hint of chocolate, and lingers on the tongue with a long, clean aftertaste.

I will have to take his word for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

[Jbro]

That stuff is big in Vietnam where my wifes family is.

[Starscream]

I thought it was monkey sh*t. It's referenced in "The Bucket List".

[Wither]

Coffee sucks.

[SorthNarolina]

You can't really appreciate it unless your a coffee snob. Otherwise it will just taste like a cup of coffee.

[Jbro]

I thought it was monkey sh*t. It's referenced in "The Bucket List".

Oh yea. Regardless it is poo. Nothing like warm watery feces to get the day going. The best party of waking up is poopy in your cop.

[LifeisaGarden]

I can put cat poo in my own coffee for free.

[CharlotteBeer.com]

I've had Mikkeller's Beer Geek Brunch (Weasel), which is a stout brewed with the Kopi Luwak coffee as well.

It's damn good stuff.

[TarPanther9180]

I thought this was a thread dedicated to that garbage they have here at work. Nothing says cat sh!t like S&D coffee!

[CharlotteBeer.com]

I swung by Starbucks this morning for a Caffè Americano. I love these things.

[Purity-Control]

I've had it, I wasn't impressed, just tasted like a thicker more earthy version of Sumatra to me.

Nothing compares to Jamaica Blue Mountain from Peetes, best coffee I have ever had.

[Samuel L. Jackson]

you can also get high on a cat's spray...