It's Kopi Luwak time!

I do enjoy a good cup of coffee.

I also enjoy a unique cup of coffee.

Matt, my good friend who works at Streams doing the video work, loves coffee much more than I do. He's always trying different coffee's that he orders off the internet and has very particular ways of brewing it just to his liking. Although I am far less picky, I do appreciate it when it is well done.

I tried one of his coffee's which is actually aged, which gave it kind of a weird, although not unpleasant, musty taste. But when we heard about Kopi Luwak coffee, which is essentially, coffee beans that are eaten by a cat-like creature called a civet, then harvested from the poop, cleaned and roasted, we knew we needed to try it.

Unfortunately, it also one of the worlds most expensive coffee as they just can't seem to make those civets eat enough beans for mass production. We ended up pinching pennies and together we afforded a whole 6 ounces of it.

There was a whole lot of anticipation, would it be a party in our respective mouths, or would it just taste like cat excrement?

Fortunately for us, after a tentative taste, it turns out they cleaned up those beans pretty good and just tasted like dang good coffee. Smooth and without any nasty aftertaste.



So all in all, was it worth it? Well, financially speaking, probably not, but you just can't buy memories like that. Besides, how many people do you know can say they drank coffee that came through a civets intestines? That alone should convince anyone!

Here is a few links to get some more info on this tasty treat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak
http://www.lifeaftercoffee.com/2005/09/16/the-straight-poop-on-kopi-luwak-coffee/