cup of cats poo anyone ?

[jlgx50]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/health/261049/want-a-cup-of-cats-poo-coffee-thatll-be-50

"Caffeine aficionados in Australia can now drink the Grange Hermitage of coffee, the Rolls Royce of their favourite bean— cat's poo coffee.

It's the most expensive cup of Joe on the planet and locals in Townsville are reportedly mad for it.

Called Kopi Luwak, it's an Indonesian coffee made from the faeces of a Luwak, a small cat-like creature native to the island nation's coffee-growing regions.

The Luwaks select the freshest coffee cherries to eat and once the bean passes through their digestive system it remains intact but is no longer bitter. Experts say this creates a sweeter-tasting coffee.

Bean pickers collect the animals' faeces along with the coffee beans. The excrement is then separated from the actual coffee before being washed and brewed up.

The heat of the initial brewing process eliminates any disease, fungus or parasite.

Kopi Luwak sells for around $1400 a kilogram, making it the most expensive coffee in the world according to Forbes magazine's Cup of Excellence awards.

Consuming the coffee from a cafe can still set you back a lot more than your average espresso. However, regulars at Townsville's Hervey's Range Heritage Tea Room have been happily paying $50 a cup for Kopi Luwak.

"[Demand for the coffee has] just gone mental," says the cafe's Donna Scott. "People really want to try it for the experience."

The cafe began stocking the gourmet coffee just before Christmas. All the store's gift packs — which range from $90 to $200 — sold out over the Christmas period.

The store's clients are happy to pay for this unique coffee experience and can have their Kopi Luwak made to whichever form of espresso coffee they ask for, Scott said.

Experts disagree. Drinking Kopi Luwak as espresso coffee can ruin much of its unique flavour.

"It'd be wasted in espresso," said Rob Forsyth, chairman of the Australasian Speciality Coffee Association. "You'd have to make in a plunger cup as the milk would destroy the flavour."

Forsyth, who has been stocking Kopi Luwak for the past two years in his Sydney cafe, sells individual cups for $4 and packs of the coffee for $140 per 100 grams.

It's a drink with a limited audience in Australia given its origin and price, Forsyth said.

"You only get coffee geeks who really want it," he said. "Yes, it's unusual, but nothing would justify that sort of money."

What do you think? Would you drink it?

 

[Manifold1]

...What the crap?!

That's got to be the weirdest type of coffee I've ever heard of.

I dont know if I'd drink it... maybe watch someone else drink it, though.

 

[FrisianDude]

I heard of that while ago. Sounds odd, but I don't really drink much coffee anyway.

 

[Rujasu]

How is this any more exotic than coffee digested by Vietnamese weasels?

 

[El Perro Finlandese]

Cat-crap coffee? Now I have heard it all.

 

[Badun]

As far as I remember, there was some other coffee that was said to taste great made from food digested by some animal, also very expensive but it wasn't cats' poo that was used in it.

 

[Kleidophoros]

It's not cat poo, they are not degisted. They are intact and uhm..flavoured.

 

[Suspect-Device]

So people like this coffee, because it does not taste like coffee?

God, I'm of the opinion that anyone who does not drink coffee black should be lined up and shot, adding milk ruins coffee.

 

[jlgx50]

No, people that put milk in there tea, or suger should be shot

 

[Corvus]

Thats retarded. Tea needs milk... last term i was hungry, but had no food, so made myself an entire large pot of tea, then realised id run out of milk. I was feeling sick by the end of it the taste of tannins was so strong.
But yes coffee, if good real coffee, should certainly be black. If im stuck with instant coffee i might put milk in, depending on my mood.

And yeah i heard of this ages ago, it's a type of civet cat i think, id be quite interested in trying it.

 

[Earl_of_Rochester]

Is it any surprise that the former convicts have now resorted to drinking feline fecal matter & claim their behaviour is suitable for decent society?

It's just not cricket, especially since we won the ashes.

~EoR

 

[Ursca]

How is this any more exotic than coffee digested by Vietnamese weasels?

Same stuff. I don't know why people insist on calling them 'cats', since they're nothing of the kind. 

 

[jlgx50]

Is it any surprise that the former convicts have now resorted to drinking feline fecal matter & claim their behaviour is suitable for decent society?

It's just not cricket, especially since we won the ashes.

~EoR

Maybe it was like a under the table Bet, if Australia won the Ashes they got to become a republic, if England won the Aussies had to drink cat poo

 

[Vovolov]

So people like this coffee, because it does not taste like coffee?

God, I'm of the opinion that anyone who does not drink coffee black should be lined up and shot, adding milk ruins coffee.

I agree. Adding a lot of sugar is never bad though.

 

[Radalan]

God, I'm of the opinion that anyone who does not drink coffee black should be lined up and shot, adding milk ruins coffee.

Nah, no milk, no drink.

If there's creme available, much better.

隐藏

Drinking coffee black = 99.9% possibility of acid reflux. 

 

[FrisianDude]

I don't much like coffee, but milk in my tea I can't consider but a grave insult. Sugar is okay, though.

 

[An4Sh]

So people like this coffee, because it does not taste like coffee?

God, I'm of the opinion that anyone who does not drink coffee black should be lined up and shot, adding milk ruins coffee.

Yeah I was reading that and wondered if they ever hear of cocoa or melted chocolate.

 

[The Cow Dude]

huh, not a single "The Bucket List"  reference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJqwCdzZnw

 

[Elenmmare]

^ Yeah, was going to say that.

 

[Shatari]

What do you think?

Meh, in a world where people routinely eat snails, grasshoppers, and raw fish eggs, I find it hard to raise an eyebrow at oddly filtered coffee. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go cook up some chicken menstruation.