Is there really a coffee made from lemur excrement?
I was talking to a friend who said she saw something on tv about an expensive gourmet coffee made from Lemur excrement. If anyone has a link to a website about this coffee, I’d really appreciate it. I was telling another friend about it and he thinks I made it up.
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Filed under: Gourmet Coffee Beans
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Kopi Luwak or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee cherries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The animals gorge on the ripe berries, and excrete partially-digested beans in their feces, which are then harvested for sale. This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, in the Philippines (where the product is called Kape Alamid), in the country of Vietnam, and the coffee estates of south India.
it is a rare coffee bean called kopi luwak and the beans are collected from the poop of a civet cat. search it online it will pop up.
Kopi Luwak
http://coffeetea.about.com/cs/kindsofcoffee/a/aakopiluwak.htm
Yes it is true, people will eat anything. I don’t know if it is a lemur or a goat, I don’t remember exactly.
What it is; Coffee berries are eaten by the critter and the seeds come out in the poop. The poop is gathered up and the seeds strained out, it is then treated like regular coffee beans. It is dried, then roasted.
I’m a major coffee snob and I buy my coffee beans green and roast them at home. But something that has been processed by digestion is not something I can handle.