It's a small animal in South America that eats the coffee beans, passes the beans through its system and someone comes along scoops it up and makes coffee. I heard it is very exspensive.
2006-11-15 01:35:15 · 6 answers · asked by Thomas B 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Non-Alcoholic Drinks
Ewwwwwww
2006-11-15 02:19:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here ya go! Wow, some people on here are so small minded and ignorant and I'm talking about the answers above me.
The World's Most Expensive Coffee is From Beans Cycled Through an Indonesian Monkey's Digestive System-Truth!
Kopi Luwak is a rare and gourmet coffee from Indonesia that is made from beans passed through the digestive system of monkeys.
The Truth:
Kopi Luwak does exist, is very expensive, and is made from coffee beans passed through the digestive system of an Indonesian animal, but it's more like a cat than a monkey. According to a feature article by the Manila Coffee House, which sells the stuff, the people who harvest the digested beans don't really have to pick through cat litter to get it. The animal processes the beans and excretes them whole, unscratched, and without dung.
The animal is a palm civet, a dark brown tree-dwelling cat-like creature found throughout Southeast Asia. The scientific name is paradoxurus hermaphroditus.
According to the Manila Coffee House, the palm civet just happens to like to ingest the ripest and reddest coffee beans, which also happen to be the ones best for brewing. The cat eats the outer covering of the beans in the same way that is accomplished by de-pulping machines. Something happens to the beans in the journey through the cat's intestines that gives it a flavor that is celebrated by coffee drinkers.
At this point, most of the beans are purchased by Japanese buyers.
2006-11-15 09:55:52 · answer #2 · answered by BlueSea 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Coffe is a drink made of coffe , nothing else. Why do you people believe in anything people tell you?
If there is such a drink, which I doubt, it can't be called coffee, for besides the beans that may serve as food for those animals, it must eat something else.
Maybe you are the one to have odd feeding habits!
2006-11-15 09:52:04 · answer #3 · answered by eliana s 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is a Vietnamese brand name of coffee called "Weasel" which uses this process with weasels.
Have a look: http://www.firebox.com/?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=616
http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20060725/weasel-coffee/
Although apparently these animals only "regurgitate" the coffee beans.
2006-11-15 10:12:56 · answer #4 · answered by sondonesia 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ew-w. I hope they don't really do this. lol
I have heard of it, but didn't catch the name, which is why I'll stick with my regular brand.
2006-11-15 09:42:56 · answer #5 · answered by Lucianna 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
why do you want to know?
2006-11-15 09:39:44 · answer #6 · answered by Poptart20 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋