What is Kopi Luwak or Luwak Coffee ?
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.
Kopi Luwak are robusta or arabica coffee beans which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Indonesian Palm Civet (family of Viverridae). Kopi Luwak process takes place on the
islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago.
The palm civet has the ability to pick the best and sweetest berry and evolved as an omnivore that naturally eats fruit and passes undigested material as a natural link to disperse seeds in a forest ecosystem.
Wild civets will eat robusta and other less desirable strains when they find it since they are more prolific at lower altitudes. This is why robusta bean makes up a large portion of the natural product that we see out there which we also carry and sell;
HOWEVER WE SPECIALIZE to the superior varieties of Specialty Arabica Kopi Luwak, unique to many others out there who carry mostly robusta ones.
Kopi Luwak has distinctive textures from any other coffees in the world with great complexity and body, a mild with long lasting after taste sensation.
"Kopi" is the Indonesian word for coffee and "Luwak" is local name of this animal which eats the raw red coffee 'cherries' as part of its usual diet. This animal eats a mixed diet of insects, small mammals and fruits along with the softer outer part of the coffee cherry but does not digest the inner beans, instead excreting them still covered in some inner layers of the cherry.
Locals then gather the beans -- which come through the 'animal stage' fairly intact -- and sell them on to dealers. It is believed that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavour through fermentation of some type.
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