While travelling in Indonesia I was lucky enough to be able to sample the world's rarest coffee!! Here's my report on it.
So where is the world's rarest coffee produced? To be honest when you travel around, lots of places pretend they are the world's best, world's first, world's largest etc. and this sort of thing annoys me - especially in Singapore. It's cringeworthy to claim everything is the best in the world. But this post is for real - this really is a rare coffee!!
I was in Munduk in Bali and touring near rice fields only to find a coffee plantation nearby. While checking out the coffee plantation we were introduced to a somewhat odd looking creature known as the Luwak Fox!! It is this creature that eats red coffee beans, is a mix between a cat, wolf, fox and dog and it helps produce the Luwak Coffee!
The oddest and most disturbing fact of this is that the Luwak Fox digests the coffee bean and it comes back out in its excretion (yes, it's sh1t!) and this is how they made the world's rarest coffee. It's coffee which has been digested and excreted by the Luwak Fox. When our guide told us this, I really didn't believe it, but reports later on confirmed it. So we had to try it. The name, obviously is Luwak Coffee.
The coffee costs a lot of money as it's so rare so we decided on the alcoholic version to get a bit of money's worth from it!
The cafe we went to is in Munduk and called Kubu Kopi, but there are a lot of cafes around. If you are on a day tour get your driver to take you to a coffee plantation. It would be hard to find by car to be honest but make sure you're in or around Munduk if you want to try it. The coffee is available all over Indonesia and is also exported so being in Bali isn't your only option by the way!
A picture of the Luwak fox appears on the menu and the coffee is priced at around $8 US dollars. I guess the cheapest place you will get it is here in Bali, at the source. But come on this is the world's rarest coffee and is worth trying! But is it any good? Yes, we loved it - and it arrives in a wooden cup and saucer so you can drink in a unique environment with a view of the many gorgeous fields of Bali without a care in the world.
Right, I'm off to get myself a coffee (a 'normal' granulated one). Don't Stop Living!
Where to buy the world's rarest coffee? - Munduk, Bali, INDONESIA (it's also exported)
What's the name of the world's 'rarest coffee'? - Luwak Coffee
How much is it? - About 8 US Dollars a cup
What's it made from? - Coffee bean which has been excreted from the Luwak Fox
Is it worth trying? - Seriously of course it is - you can waste 8US Dollars on a lot worse!!
So where is the world's rarest coffee produced? To be honest when you travel around, lots of places pretend they are the world's best, world's first, world's largest etc. and this sort of thing annoys me - especially in Singapore. It's cringeworthy to claim everything is the best in the world. But this post is for real - this really is a rare coffee!!
I was in Munduk in Bali and touring near rice fields only to find a coffee plantation nearby. While checking out the coffee plantation we were introduced to a somewhat odd looking creature known as the Luwak Fox!! It is this creature that eats red coffee beans, is a mix between a cat, wolf, fox and dog and it helps produce the Luwak Coffee!
The oddest and most disturbing fact of this is that the Luwak Fox digests the coffee bean and it comes back out in its excretion (yes, it's sh1t!) and this is how they made the world's rarest coffee. It's coffee which has been digested and excreted by the Luwak Fox. When our guide told us this, I really didn't believe it, but reports later on confirmed it. So we had to try it. The name, obviously is Luwak Coffee.
The coffee costs a lot of money as it's so rare so we decided on the alcoholic version to get a bit of money's worth from it!
The cafe we went to is in Munduk and called Kubu Kopi, but there are a lot of cafes around. If you are on a day tour get your driver to take you to a coffee plantation. It would be hard to find by car to be honest but make sure you're in or around Munduk if you want to try it. The coffee is available all over Indonesia and is also exported so being in Bali isn't your only option by the way!
A picture of the Luwak fox appears on the menu and the coffee is priced at around $8 US dollars. I guess the cheapest place you will get it is here in Bali, at the source. But come on this is the world's rarest coffee and is worth trying! But is it any good? Yes, we loved it - and it arrives in a wooden cup and saucer so you can drink in a unique environment with a view of the many gorgeous fields of Bali without a care in the world.
Right, I'm off to get myself a coffee (a 'normal' granulated one). Don't Stop Living!
Where to buy the world's rarest coffee? - Munduk, Bali, INDONESIA (it's also exported)
What's the name of the world's 'rarest coffee'? - Luwak Coffee
How much is it? - About 8 US Dollars a cup
What's it made from? - Coffee bean which has been excreted from the Luwak Fox
Is it worth trying? - Seriously of course it is - you can waste 8US Dollars on a lot worse!!
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