Allan Sharpe-Heritage Teas Rooms-Townsville-Australia sells arguably The Worlds rarest and most expensive cup of Coffee. Kopi Luwak.
It smelt rich, tasted rich and in fact was undoubtedly tangy and vaguely chocolaty.
But SHIT!, it came with a kick.
‘Shit’, is an integral component of the brews robust succulence. If you reel, gagging in horror, from the idea of drinking recycled sewage, then this small brown beverage will NOT be to your taste.
Mind you for fifty bucks a dose, it needs something, apart from a kick in the brain, going for it.
It has. Kopi Luwak is the arguably the world’s rarest and most expensive coffee.
The Asian or common palm civet, a racoon cum weasel like critter, and native of the Javan and Sumatran forests, enjoys a predilection for ripe coffee cherries. It’s an increasingly threatened creature with few human friends and a decreasing habitat. Coffee planters don’t love Civets and destroy them on site but its crap might just save it from extinction.
Unable to digest the coffee cherry kernels, the critters gurgling bowels efficiently absorb the sour nutrients and eject the indigestible bean. The processed seeds emerge from the creatures sphincter conveniently glued together and resembling sticky nougat. The coagulated gunk plunges to the forest floor providing the local peasants with a highly prized export and allegedly the world’s most expensive caffeine hit. So expensive that the indigenous folks cannot afford to drink what was once a virtually free resource. Coffee crapping civets may have a life expectancy yet.
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