The Most Expensive Coffee In The World....

Kopi Luwak or Civet Coffee
Is one of the world's most expensive and low-production varieties of coffee. Its made from the coffee beans that were previously digested by the Asian Palm Civet. Civets only eat the finest coffee berries they can find, once eaten it basically passes through their digestive tract and then the beans are defecated, gathered, washed, sun dried, lightly roasted and brewed for consumption. These beans have an almost irresistible aromatic essence that any coffee addict would find hard to resits not to try a sip. This coffee has a very low acidic and bitterness than to most other coffee out there.
Its mostly produced on the islands of the Indonesian Archipelago. Such as Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesin. There are also productions in the the Phillippines (where their product is called Motit Coffee in Cordillera and Kape Alamid in the Tagalog areas).
The Origin of Kpoi Luwak goes back to the 18th century from the production of coffee in Indonesia. The Dutch established the Cash-Crop Plantations for the colony in Dutch East Indies Islands of Java and Sumatra, during the era of Cultuurstelsel (1830-1870) the Dutch made it so that the native farmers were prohibited to pick the coffee berries for their own use... still, the natives craved to have a taste of that beautiful hot or cold beverage they soon happened to find that a certain animal... "Musang or Luwak" Asian Plam Cevit consumed the coffee berries and theft the coffee beans behind in their droppings. So the natives would collect the beans, clean, roast and brew, finally getting the chance to drink their own coffee. It wasn't long before the famed aromatic Civet Coffee spread throughout all the locals, where it became the favorite of all coffee, yet because of its rarity and its unusual process, the Civet Coffee was expensive even in Colonial times.
Selling prices for the United States alone is anywhere between $100 to $600 per pound of Civet Coffee.
In November of 2006 Herveys Range Heritage Tea Room, in Townsvill, Queensland Australia, put Kopi Luwak Coffee on its menu at $35.00 USD a cup... Selling seven cups a week.
There are not too many places that brew this interesting coffee, but there are plenty of places online who do sell it by the pound... I know that for California the closest place to be able to buy a cup would be San Fransisco, maybe someone knows a place in San Diego that I'm not aware of... But I promise that if I ever get the chance to try it, I'll be sure to inform to anyone who is listening/reading this blog. Probably film it and put it on Youtube ;D, thanks again for listening/reading.

-Ioanna and Raven
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