Civet Poop Coffee — Kopi Luwak Civet poop coffee, commonly
Civet Poop Coffee — Kopi Luwak
Civet poop coffee, commonly called Kopi Luwak, is a rare and expensive coffee associated mainly with Indonesia.
It is made using coffee cherries that are eaten by the Asian palm civet. The civet digests the fruit around the coffee seed, but the beans themselves pass through its digestive system and are later found in its feces. The beans are then collected, thoroughly washed, dried, roasted, and brewed.
The digestive process can alter the chemical composition of the beans, which is one reason Kopi Luwak is marketed as having a distinctive, smoother taste.
Important: The coffee isn’t literally brewed from feces. The coffee beans are recovered from the feces and cleaned before processing.
There is also an ethical concern: some commercial Kopi Luwak production keeps civets in cages and force-feeds them coffee cherries. Wild-sourced and genuinely animal-friendly production is considered preferable.
The name comes from Indonesian:
* Kopi = coffee
* Luwak = civet
So, Kopi Luwak literally means “civet coffee.”
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