Kopi Luwak or Civet Coffee- Bali’s most priced possession

If that’s you then you must have definitely heard about Kopi Luwak, Balinese for Civet Coffee. It is one of the most exclusive and expensive coffees in the world.It  is a type of  coffee that are partially digested coffee cherries, which have been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet. The cherries are fermented as they pass through a civet’s intestines, and after being defecated with other fecal matter, they are collected.

Kopi Luwak is produced mainly on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali, Sulawesi, and in East Timor. Bali Tour Packages can give you a fair idea of the Places to visit in Bali.

Producers of the coffee beans argue that the process improves the taste of the coffee basically through two reasons :  first is selection of the coffee beans, where civets choose to eat only certain cherries; and digestion, where biological or chemical mechanisms in the animals’ digestive tracts alter the composition of the coffee cherries.

Kopi Luwak is more of a form of processing rather than a variety of coffee; it has been called one of the most expensive coffees in the world, with retail prices reaching US$100 per kilogram for farmed beans and US$1,300 per kilogram for wild-collected beans. Another epithet given to it is that it is the “Holy Grail of coffees.”

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Origin Of Kopi Luwak