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The Rarest Gourmet Coffee In The World
Kopi LuwakRusty's Rump Roast, better known as Kopi Luwak, "The Rarest Gourmet Coffee In The World". Kopi Luwak is robusta coffee beans which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Palm Civet [see attached picture of this ugly beast!!]. Unable to digest the coffee beans the Luwak graciously deposits them on the jungle floor where they are eagerly collected by the locals. The stomach acids and enzymatic action involved in this unique fermentation process produces the beans for the world's rarest coffee beverage.
This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archepelago's 13,677 islands (only 6,000 of which are inhabited). On these Indonesian islands, there's a small marsupial called the paradoxurus, a tree-dwelling animal that is part of the sibet family. Long regarded by the natives as pests, they climb among the coffee trees eating only the ripest, reddest coffee cherries. The enzymes in the animals' stomachs, add something unique to the coffee's flavor through fermentation.
