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Another “treasure” of Indonesia:  Kopi Luwak or palm civet coffee (kopi means coffee).  With a selling price between $100 to $600 a pound makes it the most expensive coffee in the world.

 

 

 

Luwaks consume the red coffee cherries, when available, containing the fruit and seed, and they tend to pick the ripest and  sweetest fruit. Thus there is a natural selection for the ripest coffee beans. The inner bean of the berry is not digested, but a unique combination of enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavor by breaking  down the proteins that give coffee its bitter taste. The beans are defecated, still covered in some inner layers of the berry.

 

 The fruit has been removed but the beans are whole. The resulting bean is has an aroma and flavor distinctly its own.  The beans are washed, and given only a light roast so as to not destroy the complex flavors that develop through the process.

 

It is believed that Luwak coffee that the enzymes from the Palm Civet's gut actually modify and alter the beans. The natural pungency and 'bitterness' of coffee is allegedly absorbed, the caffeine content decreases, sweetness increases and a unique flavor is imparted on the coffee.

 

It really IS a special coffee. “Kopi happens”.  In Indonesia, we can find this exotic and organic coffee in Sidikalang, capital of Dairi regency in North Sumatra.