Not my cup of coffee!
I am a coffee addict like the next guy.......but I am drawing the line with this....
I was talking to one of my funny-knows-random-things co-workers this morning about coffee. We love coffee and I was talking about possible getting a vanilla flavored coffee for our office to change things up.
Him: "I would like to try Civet coffee...."
Me: "What? I have NO idea?"
Him: ...explained...
Me: Horrified....Disbelief....
Us: we went to Wikipedia
Below is the explanation.....I will always refer to this as Ass Coffee.
Note to some of my friends back at home where it is made....(you know who you are AG, VOG!!! What the hell! Did you two know about this?)
From Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civet_coffee
Kopi Luwak or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The animals gorge on the ripe berries, and the undigested beans are excreted. 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), in the country of Vietnam, and the coffee estates of south India. Vietnam has a similar type of coffee, called Weasel Coffee which also comes from the droppings of coffee beans after weasels eat robusta coffee cherries.
Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling up to $70 USD per quarter pound, and is sold mainly in Japan and United States, but it is increasingly becoming available elsewhere, though supplies are limited.
Kopi is the Indonesian word for coffee, and luwak is a local name of the Palm Civet. The raw, red coffee berries are part of its normal diet, along with insects, small mammals, and other fruit. The inner bean of the berry is not digested, but it is believed that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavor by breaking down the proteins that give coffee its bitter taste. The beans are excreted still covered in some inner layers of the cherry, and locals then gather them and sell them to dealers. The beans are washed, and given only a light roast so as to not destroy the complex flavors which develop through the whole process. While praised by many for its rich flavor, the unusual origin and manner of production lead some drinkers to deride it as "cat poop coffee" or "monkey poo coffee," while others deem it worthy of the title "ass-coffee."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ass_coffee
I was talking to one of my funny-knows-random-things co-workers this morning about coffee. We love coffee and I was talking about possible getting a vanilla flavored coffee for our office to change things up.
Him: "I would like to try Civet coffee...."
Me: "What? I have NO idea?"
Him: ...explained...
Me: Horrified....Disbelief....
Us: we went to Wikipedia
Below is the explanation.....I will always refer to this as Ass Coffee.
Note to some of my friends back at home where it is made....(you know who you are AG, VOG!!! What the hell! Did you two know about this?)
From Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civet_coffee
Kopi Luwak or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The animals gorge on the ripe berries, and the undigested beans are excreted. 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), in the country of Vietnam, and the coffee estates of south India. Vietnam has a similar type of coffee, called Weasel Coffee which also comes from the droppings of coffee beans after weasels eat robusta coffee cherries.
Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling up to $70 USD per quarter pound, and is sold mainly in Japan and United States, but it is increasingly becoming available elsewhere, though supplies are limited.
Kopi is the Indonesian word for coffee, and luwak is a local name of the Palm Civet. The raw, red coffee berries are part of its normal diet, along with insects, small mammals, and other fruit. The inner bean of the berry is not digested, but it is believed that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavor by breaking down the proteins that give coffee its bitter taste. The beans are excreted still covered in some inner layers of the cherry, and locals then gather them and sell them to dealers. The beans are washed, and given only a light roast so as to not destroy the complex flavors which develop through the whole process. While praised by many for its rich flavor, the unusual origin and manner of production lead some drinkers to deride it as "cat poop coffee" or "monkey poo coffee," while others deem it worthy of the title "ass-coffee."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ass_coffee
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