In India, in the 18th century, people drank monkey coffee, made from coffee cherries chewed and spat out by monkeys. To obtain the Kopi Luwak is different.
The Luwak, a small cat-like Asian civet, loves the fruits of coffee trees, but it does not spit them out. He eats them, digests the pulp, but not the core, which we recover when he pops!
The gastric juices of its digestive tract give the seeds a savory taste of hazelnut, sweet, round, and without bitterness.
These are obviously cleaned and sorted, before being delicately roasted. It actually costs a blind: the price of Kopi Luwak varies between 200 and 400 euros per kilo, which makes us the cup to…
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