Bali, Indonesia
We were on our way to Kintamani and our guide suggested a detour to this coffee plantation that serves Luwak coffee. So far, I have only seen this on the National Geographic channel and never thought that the opportunity would come my way to sampling it. You see, what makes the Luwak coffee ‘special’ is that the ingredients – in this case the coffee beans – were first processed through the gastro-intestinal tract of a civet cat. Apparently, this Luwak cat’s main diet consists of coffee beans and having digesting only the skin and what little flesh of the fruit, the beans were excreted intact.
...Well of course we humans decided that we should collect them, have it cleaned, roasted and savoured as an exotic beverage. And I, for some reason I do not know myself, went ahead and tasted it. Would you?
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