What is Kopi Luwak or Coffee Luwak?
What is Coffee Luwak or Kopi Luwak? Civet Coffee or Coffee Luwak or Kopi Luwak, also known as Coffee Alamid in Philippines or Weasel Coffee, is indeed the rarest and most exotic coffee in the world. This coffee is also featured in the movie “The Bucket List” staring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. An article in Forbes ranked this coffee as the most expensive coffee in the world. To understand how the naming was derived, we will go to explain you: Kopi is the Indonesian word for coffee, and Luwak is a local name (in the island of Java) of the Asian Palm Civet. The red and ripe coffee fruits are part of its normal diet, along with insects, small reptiles, eggs, and other fruits. The inner bean of the berry is not digested, but it has been proposed that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee’s flavor by breaking down the proteins that give coffee its better taste. The beans are defecated, still covered in some inner layers of the berry. The beans are washed, sun dried, a
