rockpile Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 "Kopi (the Indonesian word for coffee) Luwak comes from the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi (formerly Celebes), which are part of the Indonesian Archepelago's 13,677 islands (only 6,000 of which are inhabited). But it's not strictly the exotic location that makes these beans worth their weight in silver. It's how they're "processed." On these Indonesian islands, there's a small marsupial called the paradoxurus, a tree-dwelling animal that is part of the sibet family. Long regarded by the natives as pests, they climb among the coffee trees eating only the ripest, reddest coffee cherries. Who knows who first thought of it, or how or why, but what these animals eat they must also digest and eventually excrete. Some brazen or desparate -- or simply lazy -- local gathered the beans, which come through the digestion process fairly intact, still wrapped in layers of the cherries' mucilage. The enzymes in the animals' stomachs, though, appear to add something unique to the coffee's flavor through fermentation." Marsupial Coffee
VABills Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 I have seen stories on this in the past. I love coffee, but no thanks. I drink my coffee straight, no cream, no sugar, and I sure don't want any dingle berries in it either.
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 I have seen stories on this in the past. I love coffee, but no thanks. I drink my coffee straight, no cream, no sugar, and I sure don't want any dingle berries in it either. 543066[/snapback] Cream and sugar's on a high shelf, eh?
VABills Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 Cream and sugar's on a high shelf, eh? 543166[/snapback] Nope, I just drink better coffee then you. Besides that's what repelling ropes are for.
Beerball Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 I have seen stories on this in the past. I love coffee, but no thanks. I drink my coffee straight, no cream, no sugar, and I sure don't want any dingle berries in it either. 543066[/snapback] ditto, ditto, ditto and ditto
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 Nope, I just drink better coffee then you. Besides that's what repelling ropes are for. 543179[/snapback] Invariably. I don't drink coffee.
rockpile Posted December 27, 2005 Author Posted December 27, 2005 I drink my coffee black, usually, but yesterday I was adding a shot of Kahlua. I have seen stories on this in the past. I love coffee, but no thanks. I drink my coffee straight, no cream, no sugar, and I sure don't want any dingle berries in it either. 543066[/snapback]
bobblehead Posted December 29, 2005 Posted December 29, 2005 I'm guessing that these are the people that had their homes and towns were wiped off the map, but now they can score $75 for a 1/4 lb of coffee shat from a monkey's ass. Karma. I hope they actually see some of that money, but it all probably goes to the man.
Recommended Posts