AdamH Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 Blane - I understand. That Cafe Olimpico and it's damned delicious milky coffee drinks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 I tried the Kopi Luwak this morning. It had a good roasted flavour and was strong. However I can't believe people would pay $120/lb. or more for this stuff. It wasn't that special.Though to be fair, the sample I tried was instant - just add boiling water. I imagine a proper coffee shop would prepare it espresso style and it would have been better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Zimmy Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 Hmmm...why would they make instant cat crap coffee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishtaper Posted May 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 for odd folk in a rush? more importantly however ... FBN, have you suddenly discovered cravings for balls of string or litter boxes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 Ha! No one litter box in my house is enough.My co-worker who gave me this coffee, didn't realize it was instant. He also has some beans (which he bought for $50 for 200g) and is going to give me some tomorrow, so I can have a "proper" cup of cat-shit coffee. I'll let you guys know how it goes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 how does that work exactly? do they feed beans to the cats and the resulting bean-shit gets ground? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Zimmy Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 Kopi Luwak (pronounced [ˈkopi ˈluwak]) or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The civets eat the berries, but the beans inside pass through their system undigested. This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, in the Philippines (where the product is called Kape Alamid) and in East Timor (locally called kafé-laku). Vietnam has a similar type of coffee, called weasel coffee, which is made from coffee berries which have been defecated by local weasels. In actuality the "weasel" is just the local version of the Asian Palm Civet. A civet From wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishtaper Posted May 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 cool, thanks bradm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 (edited) There's just one thing she omitted...(Aside from that, I thought it was a great answer, really. :thumbup: )Aloha,Brad Edited May 26, 2008 by Guest Change "forgot" to "omitted"; I didn't mean she was copying my posting style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Huxtable Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Can anyone tell me what the perceived benefit is from the beans being passed through the digestive system of animals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Can anyone tell me what the perceived benefit is from the beans being passed through the digestive system of animals?Status! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishtaper Posted May 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Can anyone tell me what the perceived benefit is from the beans being passed through the digestive system of animals?Status!cant believe you even had to ask, Huxiebabe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Zimmy Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 A hypothesis to justify this coffee's reputation proposes that the beans are of superior quality before they are even ingested. At any given point during a harvest, some coffee berries are not quite- or over-ripe, while others are just right. The palm civet evolved as an omnivore that naturally eats fruit and passes undigested material as a natural link to disperse seeds in a forest ecosystem. Where coffee plants have been introduced into their habitat, civets only forage on the most ripe berries, digest the fleshy outer layer, and later excrete the seeds eventually used for human consumption. Thus, when the fruit is at its peak, the seeds (or beans) within are equally so, with the expectation that this will come through in the taste of a freshly-brewed cup. As this may be true for the beans derived from wild-collected civet feces, farm raised civets are likely fed beans of varying quality and ripeness, so one would expect the taste of farm-raised beans to be less.I'm going to start a civet farm, those little dudes are cute and I will make millions.Anyone know how to grown coffee berries?Anyone want a job sifting through civet $shit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishtaper Posted May 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 And so begins the epic journey of 110,000 Phishheads for that perfect cup of organic, fair trade, free range, catsh!t coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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