Provide Original Civet Coffee(Kopi Luwak)

The Mongoose Coffee (Kopi Luwak). Not a lot of coffee lovers who know where this coffee comes from and how the process is supposedly the most expensive coffee is up in your grasp.

Based on information gathered Blogger Indonesia from various sources, coffee mongoose is the kind of coffee is processed by natural fermentation in the digestive tract of animals whose names Mongoose. Mongoose is an animal that is similar to ferrets, but Mongoose usually live in trees.

Mongoose usually aged 80-10 years in search of food by mouth muzzle white or gray at night. After eating the beans, coffee beans then automatically processed in the stomach mongoose approximately 12 hours. Mongoose edible beans are mixed with enzymes that will exist in the gut mongoose. Because coffee beans were very hard then the coffee beans that have been in the eating mongoose will be issued again.

Although there was dirty and nasty, that's what a unique coffee aroma and marsh mongoose and appreciated very expensive. Even in the United States there is a cafe or coffee shop that sells the mongoose or civet coffee is quite expensive price. Price of a cup of coffee in America mongoose ranges 100-200 U.S. dollars or approximately Rp1-2 million. Coffee prices soared mongoose is increasingly in the international market because of outstanding only approximately 500 pounds only.

In Indonesia, Mongoose Coffee (Kopi Luwak) prices varied. For the price of raw sewage appreciated Raw or Rp350 thousand per kilogram, or the Green Bean coffee beans that have been processed up to stage the buyer is ready and dispensing their own lives in accordance with the tastes valued at 700 thousand / kg and mongoose coffee powder or coffee that was ready to be enjoyed appreciated Rp900 thousand per pounds. Wow is not expensive? lol

Mongoose coffee powder is also not carelessly thrown on the market. This coffee grounds to pass the taste test to prove the quality in accordance with his reputation. The test, called test cup can only be done from professionals who already have certification from international coffee research agency.

The Coffee Critic Kopi Luwak

I, along with our CRITICS, would like to extend my warmest gratitude and sincerest appreciation to Oprah, Lesia and The Oprah Winfrey Show for including The Coffee Critic in their October 15th, 2003 show and featuring the rare Kopi Luwak coffee.

Everyone connected with The Oprah Winfrey Show was extremely professional, from the first conversation with Susan Schmirl to the last contact with Tom Kilty of M.P. Mountanos, Inc.

We have continually promoted Kopi Luwak, a rare and exotic coffee, which was imported for the first time by Mark P. Mountanos of M.P. Mountanos, Inc. Mark first learned about this coffee in the early 1980's. Stephen Kahl, another coffee importer, read about the Kopi Luwak in an edition of the National Geographic and discussed it with Mark, who then pursued to import it.

The Exotic Kopi Luwak

As Indonesian citizens, we could be so proud because we have a kind of coffee that is very high in price, but still competitive. Ya, according to the survey held by Forbes Magazines, Kopi Luwak—kind of robusta and arabica coffee from Indonesia–is listed as the most expensive coffee in the world.

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Kopi Luwak is intimately linked to the digestive tract of the common palm civet in many island in Indonesia, because originally, Luwak it self derived from the name of animal that eat the raw red coffee. This animal eat the softer outer part of the coffee cherry but does not digest the inner beans, instead excreting them still covered in some inner layers of the cherry. This is the reason why the locals believe that enzymes from the stomach of the civet add the flavor to the coffee.

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People said that Kopi Luwak is very special for its heavy flavors, enriched with the hints of caramels and chocolate. Other people who have testify to it flavor said that Kopi Luwak is earthy, musty and exotic.

Well, I have to be honest here, I still have no experience with Kopi Luwak. But, at a time, I’ve ever watched the testimonials of its buyers in Oprah Winfrey. Here’s the screen shoot :

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Hmm.. I’ve been thinking about buying this coffee by the website, but Uhmm.. The price is quite high, it is sold for $160 per pound and it’s not a good idea :)