Kopi Luwak – Bali’s most expensive coffee

Author: AryaDate: 2021-04-16

When Comming to Bali why not experience the most expensive coffee of Bali.

Kopi Luwak is coffee brewed on beans that have been through the digestion system of a civet – a cat-like mostly nocturnal mammal. The civets eat the coffee cherries for their fleshy pulp, but the beans are left intact all the way through the digestion system. The enzymes inside the civet’s stomach extract the bitterness from the coffee, making Kopi Luwak smooth and mild with a sweet aftertaste.

Originally Kopi Luwak was made from beans found in feces from civets living in the wild, making the collecting process quite time-consuming, which explains why prices can get close to 1000$ for a kilo of Kopi Luwak. Now a lot of Kopi Luwak comes from civets in captivity, which raises some ethical issues and shouldn’t taste as good as Kopi Luwak from civets living in the wild as wild civets apparently are quite picky animals when it comes to coffee and only eat the best berries, whi