The best tasting coffee in the world actually comes from the poop of an animal called a weasel or civet. It is also one of the most expensive types of coffee.
They eat coffee berries for their fruit pulp. They defecate them in clumps, the coffee beans keeping their shape as the civets don't chew them.
These clumps of poop are then dried for three days in the sun and thoroughly cleaned before they are roasted.
Weasel coffee or Luwak coffee is made in parts of Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines but it was first discovered in Indonesia. Back in the 19th century the farmers weren't allowed to pick coffee beans but they still wanted to have some and when they saw that civets' poop has lots of coffee beans in them, they started using those. That's when they discovered it actually tastes much better than regular coffee. The secret of its taste is that during the digestion process in their stomach an enzyme breaks down the beans' proteins. As a result the coffee looses its bitterness and gets an altered flavour.
Coffee plantations:
A split coffee bean:
In the past they collected the poop of wild civets but now they have civet farms. We visited one of those on our travels through Vietnam.
We even had a cup of weasel coffee there, and it tasted amazing.
However 'regular' Vietnamese coffee tastes just as awesome, because it is roasted in butter oil, sometimes with added sugar. It has a caramel-ish taste to it and I just couldn't stop drinking it! They have a unique serving method for their coffee. A Phin filter is placed on top of the cup for the coffee to slowly drip through. They add sweet condensed milk to it or just drink it black, and you can choose to have it hot or iced.
A local café in Vietnam:
This is how we had ours:
Have you ever tried Luwak coffee or Vietnamese coffee? How did you like it?
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I love this post and I love coffee. It must be magical with the condensed milk.
It is magical but also has a lot more calories in it than when you drink it with regular milk. So I chose to have it black most of the time :)
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i never tried it but I am sure it is amazing taste!! good idea in using condense milk for a coffee @peterveronika, do you stirred it or just leave it separate below the coffee for the best taste? I am gonna try it!
You can do it however you like, I think Vietnamese people usually stir it, but depends on the taste :)
I have yet to try it. It's sooo expensive here in Croatia - it's just ridiculous.
I'm kinda jealous...
It's expensive everywhere, we didn't buy it, they just offered us a cup at the farm
Hi Veronika and Peter. I have bought a small pack of this coffee when at Bali, because I heard so much about it. And Jack Nicholson mentions it in a movie called "The bucket list". Good movie by the way.
The coffee was good but too expensive. Could not stop thinking about where it came from while drinking it though .
Wow I didn't know he mentioned it in that movie :)
On Bali it's probably more expensive than at other places.
Thanks for reading!
Poop Coffee sounds terrible. I am suprised that its delicious. 🐈💩☕
It really is, the enzyme in the civet's belly makes it so unique. Don't think about it coming from poo and you'll like it if you are a coffee drinker
I haven't tried Luwak coffe, but I wouldn't say no if I was offered a taste;)
It is definitely worth a try, you'll probably like it if you are a coffee drinker
I really had to look it up on wikipedia to believe this story ^^ I will definetly follow you !
Thank you! That picture is great :)
Luwak white coffee the best
Eish!
I’m a coffee lover but I don’t know if I can take that one from an animal poop! That’s true 😂😂😂
I have a Vietnamese friend but he never told me about weasel coffee. I am glad it has good taste and the animal is sweet!
Ask your friend if he's heard about it. They have around 30 weasel coffee farms in Vietnam, the one we visited was near Dalat. Yes the weasel is very cute :)
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I so want a good coffee now.
This is funny because my best poops come from coffee
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Thanks for sharing this post I did not know this cafe.
Thank you for the support, give weasel coffee a try if you come across it :)