Season 5 ~ Episode #34 - - - Cat Poop Coffee Taste Test

Kopi Luwak, also known as caphe cut chon (fox-dung coffee) in Vietnam and kape alamid in the Philippines, is a coffee prepared using coffee beans that have been subjected to ingestion and fermentation in the gastrointestinal tract of the Asian palm civet, which is called luwak in Indonesia. The civets digest the flesh of the coffee cherries but pass the beans inside, leaving their stomach enzymes to go to work on the beans, which adds to the coffee's prized aroma and flavor.

Caffeine content in both Arabica and Robusta luwak coffee is lower than in unfermented coffee. Large deformation mechanical rheology testing revealed that civet coffee beans are harder and more brittle in nature than their control counterparts indicating that digestive juices enter into the beans and modify the micro-structural properties of these beans. Proteolytic enzymes cause substantial breakdown of storage proteins.

1 pound (0.45 kg) can cost up to $600 in some parts of the world and about $100 a cup in others.

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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on February 24, 2014 at 3:57pm

I'm not really certain which of these two scents would be a ruder awakening . . .

K-ModPermalink Reply by Alexis (Indigo Sparrow) on February 24, 2014 at 4:08pm

I love coffee. There are few ways that I don't like it. I think I'll put the cat poop coffee on the list of ones that I don't like/won't drink. I'm just not THAT desperate for a cup.

K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on February 24, 2014 at 6:11pm

No comment on the Fun Fact #3 (re: Mike & Trina's method) discussed in GMMore, eh?

You must have a very short list of unlikable methods.

K-ModPermalink Reply by Alexis (Indigo Sparrow) on February 24, 2014 at 6:19pm

Ugh, I've blocked that method from my mind... In my world it doesn't exist... lol.

K-ModPermalink Reply by Victoria (Centauromadoose) on March 2, 2014 at 2:50pm