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apfelwoiSchoppen 190 points 2 years ago

From the wikipedia page:

Within the coffee industry, kopi luwak is widely regarded as a gimmick or novelty item. The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) states that there is a "general consensus within the industry...it just tastes bad". A coffee professional compared the same beans with and without the kopi luwak process using a rigorous coffee cupping evaluation. He concluded: "it was apparent that luwak coffee sold for the story, not superior quality...Using the SCAA cupping scale, the luwak scored two points below the lowest of the other three coffees. It would appear that the luwak processing diminishes good acidity and flavor and adds smoothness to the body, which is what many people seem to note as a positive to the coffee.” Professional coffee tasters were able to distinguish kopi luwak from other coffee samples, but remarked that it tasted "thin". Some critics claim more generally that kopi luwak is simply bad coffee, purchased for novelty rather than taste. A food writer reviewed kopi luwak available to American consumers and concluded "It tasted just like...Folgers. Stale. Lifeless.

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lightnsfw 33 points 2 years ago

You don't need to do a scientific evaluation to determine it is worse. It's literally shit water. You are drinking shit.

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Kusimulkku 11 points 2 years ago

Sometimes bizarre methods like that do come out tasting great. So good idea to test

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lightnsfw -3 points 2 years ago

Taste doesn't matter. You are consuming shit.

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Kusimulkku 7 points 2 years ago

Good tasting shit though.

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TheBrideWoreCrimson 9 points 2 years ago

What comes out of that animal on the photo doesn't look to different from what went in. So my guess is, you'll just get ordinary beans mixed with some civet intestine lining and stomach acid and whatever else they ate during that time.

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PolyLlamaRous 8 points 2 years ago

I've had it a number of times both in the states and in SE Asia. It's different but it is really good. Like yeah it is a different coffee and if you judge it to the same criteria as a coffee style that it isn't, of course it will fail. If a "good coffee" needs to be aggressively acidic with strong notes of papaya, pineapple, Maracuja...this is not that. It is very smooth and subtle and that is what makes it nice and different.

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StereoTrespasser 33 points 2 years ago

Don't forget blueberry. You have to be able to taste a hint of blueberry. Did you taste blueberry? Because if not, your extraction process has gone horribly wrong, you've bought the wrong beans, you're using the wrong water,and you probably bloomed for 32 seconds instead of 29.6.

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Riven 6 points 2 years ago

Lul fuggin spot on.

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ColeSloth 10 points 2 years ago

Another part of the equation is that civets were very particular about the cherry beans they ate, so only the best beans at just the right time were eaten and shit out.

Well after it started becoming known as good tasting, people started capturing and feeding the civets crappy cherry beans that weren't at the proper ripeness instead of gathering the shit from out in the wild where the civets got to be particular.

So now, if you buy it, it's "shit tier" civet shit beans.

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rollerbang 3 points 2 years ago

The last sentence would literally describe Palo Alto coffee that isn't shat out of an animal.

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Eheran 2 points 2 years ago

Indeed, if acidic etc. is what they like they can fuck right off. Of course it is better without!

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baseless_discourse 1 point 2 years ago

I think modern coffee is judged by how much the tastes reflect its distinct characteristics, which includes physical characteristic of the farm (altitude etc), fermentation process, and roasting process.

It takes a lot of work to produce good coffee, and the end result should let these efforts shine. Acidity, fragrance, and funk are great ways to communicate the life of the coffee to the taster. That is why they are typically the standard to determine good coffee, instead of generic and monotone"smoothness" that is shared across kirkland signature, peets, starbucks, and gas station coffees.

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Moah 6 points 2 years ago

I read that what happened is that the workers on the coffee farms weren't allowed to get coffee for themselves, so they started using these coffee cherries, but then, of course, someone had to take that away from them too so it could be monetized.

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Agrivar 5 points 2 years ago

...and then, in the natural course of things, snobby douchebags convince themselves that the crappy product they've taken from the plebs is better than the original. Poopbean coffee is just the lobster of the 21st century.

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PixeIOrange 183 points 2 years ago

The biggest problem: the civets are held in catastrophic conditions. Cages as big as shoe boxes. Just for shitty coffee. I hate humans.

(german source: https://www.peta.de/themen/kopi-luwak/ )

(english source: https://www.bbc.com/... )

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AWittyUsername 15 points 2 years ago

They didn't used to be, but once there was a demand and market for shit coffee then they capitalised.

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can 7 points 2 years ago

I remember reading an article by the guy the that brought attention to it saying how much he regretted it.

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SSJMarx 11 points 2 years ago

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Dave 8 points 2 years ago

I had the opportunity to try this when I was in Indonesia. The place I was at was a cafe advertising the most expensive coffee in the world, I think it was approximately USD$30 for a cup at the time (almost 10 years ago).

I remember seeing the example cages with civets inside them and a description of how it's made (plus a conversation with a friend I was travelling with), and decided not to try it.

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Digestive_Biscuit 2 points 2 years ago

Do you remember where in Indonesia that was? I visited one near Bandung not realising what this coffee actually was. Bit like you I left without trying or buying. The place was a visitor centre and we weren't allowed to look at the actual farm.

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Dave 1 point 2 years ago

Well hey, lucky us, we're about to find out if I'm a liar! I just spent 30+ mins digging through photos. Is this a civet?

photo of civet in cage

It's not geotagged, it was taken with an average 10 years ago digital camera, but based on the photos taken at the same time, it's in the general area of Borobudur, but not actually at that temple. My best guess is near Prambanan. Possibly we stopped somewhere on the taxi ride from one to the other.

I don't think we went to Bandung, or at least I don't remember stopping there. My memory is fuzzy but I think we drove from Jakarta to Yogyakarta so must have at least passed nearby. The place wasn't an actual farm though, just a place serving the coffee with an example civet outside.

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Digestive_Biscuit 3 points 2 years ago

Blimmin heck! Appreciate the effort in digging that photo up! It doesn't sound like the same place though.

I've done a similar journey in the past and there's places to stop everywhere. Even in a jungle in north Sulawesi at night, middle of no where, some fella selling durian in a cabin next to a dirt road.

This is covering a few experiences across Indonesia. We stopped at a frozen food shop which had 2 lions in small cages. Stopped at a private collector to see the world's smallest primate (which I can't remember the name of now) to find chimpanzees in cages bearly large enough to hold them. Driver stopped at a village which was ravaged by a volcano and people rebuilding their houses, asked if we wanted to stop to take pictures. Asked if we want to visit a wet market selling dog meat. Mid 2000's, driver asked if we wanted to stop by at the scene of the Bali bombings for photos. Went to a turtle sanctuary to find them baking in bad conditions. Went to a coral reef to find some of the worse plastic pollution I've personally seen. Don't even start me on Jakarta! Although that pace is improving in recent years

Place is crazy. Total lack of consideration for animals and people, unless religion or culture is involved, then the rules are strict. I got in trouble once for handing money over with my left hand.

Totally different to what I'm used to! Place is nuts.

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qooqie 99 points 2 years ago

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Fleppensteijn 89 points 2 years ago

I got a tour of the place where they proudly show these cats in the most horrible conditions. Also, it doesn't even taste good.

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KrankyKong 12 points 2 years ago

You tried it!?

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mostNONheinous 10 points 2 years ago

My boss bought some a few years back. I tried it, honestly a not a bad cup of coffee if you ask me. But I would never pay for it myself.

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Kusimulkku 2 points 2 years ago

Similar situation, tasted it, it was pretty good.

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olafurp 2 points 2 years ago

I would if given the chance. Just not gonna pay extra for it.

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Fleppensteijn 1 point 2 years ago

Yes, it tastes a bit earthy to me.

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Battle_Masker 64 points 2 years ago

"This coffee tastes like shit!"

"It is shit, Austin."

"Oh good, then it's not just me."

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bcgm3 39 points 2 years ago

It's a bit nutty!

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RememberTheApollo_ 4 points 2 years ago

lol, wanted to make sure this was here.

Thanks.

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ClassifiedPancake 62 points 2 years ago

Incredible how humans always find ways of abusing more animals.

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jaggedrobotpubes 33 points 2 years ago

I assumed you were full of shit about this being abusive but then I looked it up and oops

https://www.bbc.com/...

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ClassifiedPancake 27 points 2 years ago

The moment an animal is involved in the process of making money they are bred, caged and treated only as "good" as needed so they stay alive.

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chemicalprophet 11 points 2 years ago

We’ve done the same with people… Fuck capitalism and all its sociopathic sycophants.

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urfavlaura 3 points 2 years ago

humans are animals too so we've not really progressed that far

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ClassifiedPancake 3 points 2 years ago

Indeed

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Emerald 12 points 2 years ago

Why would you ever assume an animal agriculture practice wouldn't be abusive?

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vaultdweller013 7 points 2 years ago

The bees seem kinda chill about it. They can just kinda fuck off after all.

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rekorse 5 points 2 years ago

Not sure where the debate is this moment but from my understanding, vegans won't eat honey.

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ClassifiedPancake 2 points 2 years ago

Beekeeping is a real problem, especially since it became a new hobby for some people. It’s advertised as helping to save the bees but in reality the honey bees are not in danger. They are the danger - to wild bees and other local insects.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-27591-y

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HelixDab2 3 points 2 years ago

You can still get kopi luwak that's solely from wild civets--rather than captive--but the price is astronomical. I think that the last time I looked it up--more than a decade ago--it was something like $150+/pound.

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lemming741 37 points 2 years ago

I remember reading that wild animals just eat the best cherries, it has nothing to do with the digestion. The caged animals are just making shit beans.

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skvlp 7 points 2 years ago

A big part of this story is that the civets are very picky and only eat the best coffee cherries. There might of course also be other factors, but the pickiness is key.

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mrmule 28 points 2 years ago

Wild civit cats would usually cherry pick the best, well, cherries (beans) . Thereby ensuring a quality product. Nowadays they are captive and fed any old beans which means the quality is usually quite poor. I mean it still tastes OK, a bit sour, but I certainly don't support this cruel practice.

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MacStache 28 points 2 years ago

I have tasted it. Not the shit, mind you, but the coffee brewed from the beans. It was coffee. Nothing special. Not even a bit nutty.

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skye 5 points 2 years ago

Not the shit

I would hope it's not

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baguettefish 3 points 2 years ago

there is a lot of kopi luwak fraud, so it's possible you drank any old coffee and paid out the ass for it. an idea why kopi luwak presumably tastes so good is also that these civets have a very varied diet that enriches the coffee a lot, but caged civets are fed exclusively coffee beans and therefore the coffee won't even taste very good, so even if you did have real kopi luwak it'd probably taste underwhelming.

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MacStache 3 points 2 years ago

I have no doubt about the fact that it was legit stuff. The beans were bought from a reputable vendor and brewed at a reputable cafeteria. It was different for sure, but nothing that would swoon you.

The whole thing is based on the speciality of the way the beans are produced. They sell an image of excellence and rarity, but in the end it's just coffee.

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hungryphrog 28 points 2 years ago

it would have cost you nothing to not share this with us

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BruceTwarzen 34 points 2 years ago

I think it's important to know that humans treat these animals like absolute shit to literally drink their shit that doesn't even taste good, but it's expensive

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mkuznetsoff 27 points 2 years ago

FINNALLY

LITERALLY SHITPOST

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Captain_Baka 27 points 2 years ago

Literally a shitpost.

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Maerman 26 points 2 years ago

So I have a story related to this. I teach English in Korea. One time, two 11-year-old students chose kopi luwak as a topic for their in-class (no research) project. I asked what that is, as I had never heard of it. They explained in pre-intermediate English that there is a cat that poops coffee beans. I didn't believe them at first, because it sounded so silly. But they urged me to look it up. At first, I got confused between 'kopi' and 'coffee', because Korean has no 'f' sound and substitutes a 'p' sound. But when I finally found the Wiki page, I was blown away. The fact that this is real would be so funny if it weren't for all the abuse another user pointed out.

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kandoh 26 points 2 years ago

If you're thrifty like myself you can eat the beans yourself for a homemade version

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Crackhappy 26 points 2 years ago

And the civets are extremely abused to get it. Do not buy or drink this coffee. I know this first hand.

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Empricorn 25 points 2 years ago

Rich people have more money than sense. We should make them pay their taxes to help with this...

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benderbeerman 23 points 2 years ago

Me: spits coffee into the barrista's face "yo, this coffee tastes like dirt!"

Barrista: "well it was fresh ground this morning."

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Slovene 9 points 2 years ago

Get out! Dad jokes is that way --> !dadjokes@lemmy.world

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JoeKis 22 points 2 years ago

Coffee Connoisseurs:

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SSJMarx 22 points 2 years ago

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Swedneck 19 points 2 years ago

the animal abuse really adds that special je-ne-sais-quoi

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primrosepathspeedrun -2 points 2 years ago

im not sure its abuse? I know at first they were just collecting cat poop in the wild.

it being abuse wouldn't shock me, but it seems like the only thing necessary to make this is just, like, the civets eating stuff they normally eat, then collecting their poop.

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h3h3productions 10 points 2 years ago

I heard they're kept in cages and force fed the beans.

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primrosepathspeedrun 4 points 2 years ago

like I said; wouldn't shock me.

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Crackhappy 6 points 2 years ago

It is definitely abuse. No question. I know this because I have been there and have seen the conditions they live in as well as how they're force fed coffee beans.

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primrosepathspeedrun 2 points 2 years ago

wouldn't shock me

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Revonult 1 point 2 years ago

Cows naturally produce milk, I am sure there is no unethical practices there.

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primrosepathspeedrun 2 points 2 years ago

it wouldn't shock me

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Daxtron2 12 points 2 years ago

But then they can't sell it for a ridiculous price

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FlyingSquid 19 points 2 years ago

I remember an episode of QI where someone brought up the fact that Stephen Fry once bought (then) Prince Charles some Kopi Luwak as a present. His response was, "I thought I would get him something he didn't already have."

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Bosht 16 points 2 years ago

This was addressed in the movie 'The Bucket List's and I always wondered if there was any truth to it. Now I know. I also know, unconfirmed, that the animals are not treated well for their piece in the process. Take it with a grain of salt. I'm not rich or hardcore enough to even worry about this level of coffee, but interesting information none-the-less.

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Cheesus 6 points 2 years ago

It's really cheap if you buy it local. When I was on vacation in Laos, there were signs on the side of the road for 0.5kg of the stuff for $5 usd equivalent. I didn't try it because I've heard of the animal rights issues.

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ilhamagh 3 points 2 years ago

I'm from one of the country in question and I'm certain animal welfare is far at the bottom of the list of our priorities.

Even our famous endangered species like Orangutans fight losing battles against palm fruit oil producers ravaging their natural forest habitat.

So yeah, that's what happens when the majority of the population still needs to compete for food with the animals.

Greed and corruption are widespread everywhere it's exhausting.

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Tartas1995 5 points 2 years ago

I was told by a producer and seller, that they would keep the animal hostage for only a few months and would let them free afterwards.

What I heard, was "we force feed them coffee for a few months, let them free in a somewhat controlled environment and setup traps to catch them again and abuse them again for a few months"

I am not sure if I believe them about letting them free at all.

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solsangraal 15 points 2 years ago

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flicker 9 points 2 years ago

I bet it was more like, "Here's coffee you can only give from shit. I bet a stupid rich person would pay a fortune for it."

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OneCardboardBox 1 point 2 years ago

A story I heard was that it was the poor indigenous farmers who were forced to cultivate coffee for the Dutch. They weren't allowed any of the beans they grew, but were able to collect it from the dung of civets that prowled around near the plantation. Of course, once the colonizers learned that it tasted "good", it was commoditized too.

Might be apocryphal.

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glitchdx 15 points 2 years ago

How do I block individual posts, because I'd like to stop seeing this one.

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MashedTech 2 points 2 years ago

No shit coffee on your feed my friend? I'm sorry, but this is a DEMOCRACYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

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robocall 14 points 2 years ago

That's a big shit for a small animal

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4lan 6 points 2 years ago

Probably from years of being force-fed

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Warl0k3 8 points 2 years ago

There's not much nutrition on a coffee fruit, so civets have to consume a whole bunch per day. This results in excessively large poops.

- source: my 8yo nephew, who knows far too much about poop.

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FlyingSquid 5 points 2 years ago

In case your nephew is unaware, you can make him very happy by telling him that wombat poo is cubic.

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GaMEChld 14 points 2 years ago

Additionally, iirc a lot of these are unethically farmed too, like force feeding them in captivity and collecting the droppings. This also reduces the quality.

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Digestive_Biscuit 3 points 2 years ago

I was in Bandung in Indonesia earlier this year. We visited one of these places not realising what it was. The visitor centre had a bunch of cages which weren't small but I wouldn't say large enough for the size of the animal. We asked if we can see the actual farm. He said it was the largest farm so we asked to see it. Nope, not allowed.

They're also on a strict diet. I wouldn't be surprised if the ones not on display are force fed.

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techMayhem 3 points 2 years ago

If you are a living organism with the capacity to tell misery or pain just hope that humans don't find out you can make a product that nothing else an can. If you do end up I'm that situation, you will be turned into a biological machine that receives the minimum amount of necessities met as to not impact production.

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Benchamoneh 14 points 2 years ago

Who on earth discovered this and why?

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FlyingSquid 4 points 2 years ago

Someone with the worst caffeine headache ever, desperate for something to make it go away.

"Fine! I'll drink the raccoon shit coffee!"

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PelerMeletus 3 points 2 years ago

So Kopi Luwak comes from Indonesia. At that time, Indonesia was under the dutch. At that time there was a famine caused by the dutch cause they were doing some unpaid labor and all the crops that they force the locals to plant is cash crops, so not edible. That caused a massive famine, so of course some starving guy decided why not try eating the poop of the animal.

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IkarusHagen2 12 points 2 years ago

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werefreeatlast 11 points 2 years ago

This sounds like the way COVID got started.

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cmbabul 7 points 2 years ago

Got sharted*

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Zacryon 10 points 2 years ago

I wonder how it must have been like to be the one who thought one day, "I'll pick coffee beans out of monkey shit and drink that shit!"

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SirSmokeAlot 2 points 2 years ago

Coffee addiction? Nothing else left?

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Faresh 9 points 2 years ago

Couldn't we just get rid of the animals and just ferment the beans ourselves by using the bacteria in their guts?

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gencha 8 points 2 years ago

Don't give people ideas on gut bacteria harvesting please

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baseless_discourse 4 points 2 years ago

People have done that https://sprudge.com/...

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todd_bonzalez 7 points 2 years ago

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undefined 1 point 2 years ago

No, people would rather abuse animals if there’s any alternative.

Just start asking people why they won’t eat fake meat and you’ll get all kinds of irrational half-assed answers about how we need to continue locking up animals. Hell, animal abusers will bash lab-grown meat — they’ll do literally anything but acknowledge their actions contribute to animal misery.

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piccolo -1 points 2 years ago

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undefined 1 point 2 years ago

Case in point

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IvanOverdrive 9 points 2 years ago

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cordlesslamp 9 points 2 years ago

The only time I have had enjoyed this coffee was about 12 years ago when I'm on vacation in south east Asia.

And to be completely honest, it was the best cup of coffee I've ever had in my life.

It was 5 or 6 times the price of a normal coffee.

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Two2Tango 3 points 2 years ago

Did you drink it black? How was it better, was it smoother/stronger? Would you get it again?

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kerf 4 points 2 years ago

Had it once too. It was a long time ago but definitely one of the best cups I've had. Can probably be described to taste as regular coffee smells, with very little bitterness. Since then I've learned many producers have the animals in cages and don't treat them well, and there are no good ways to source ethically made Kopi Luwak, so I never really felt the need to buy it again.

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Zron 4 points 2 years ago

Surely there’s a way to do this industrially without using actual monkeys?

We know how stomachs work, we know the enzymes in their saliva, and we can even select the best gut bacteria for the best taste, stick it all in a warm bath for a few days and you’ll get the same thing.

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kerf 2 points 2 years ago

It would be great. My guess is, as with many things, it's just more profitable to use the very simple manufacturing process in low cost countries

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urfavlaura 8 points 2 years ago

truly a shitpost

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Aeri 8 points 2 years ago

SURELY you could invent another way to ferment coffee beans that does not involve having a cat shit them out, I REFUSE TO BELIEVE it's not possible to find a better way.

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Zurgo 10 points 2 years ago

Well yeah... Its just called normal coffee

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CoffeeJunkie 7 points 2 years ago

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primrosepathspeedrun 11 points 2 years ago

eating cat poop: 👎 drinking cat poop: 👍

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Kusimulkku 8 points 2 years ago

I guess you can eat the coffee beans too

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Swedneck 7 points 2 years ago

i would wager that any coffee given the special care that this stuff is given will taste really quite good, and certainly good enough that there's no reason to perform animal abuse to get this specific kind.

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Shady_Shiroe 4 points 2 years ago

What I want to know is, what was someone smoking when they decided they should try making coffee out of literal sh#t. I want the details on how it was discovered.

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zarkanian 1 point 2 years ago

You should look up bug poo tea. It's exactly what it sounds like.

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ynthrepic 2 points 2 years ago

If I recall Coyote Peterson's crew ate some.. yep, haha. They definitely thought some of the essence of dung carried over to the final product.

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therealjcdenton 7 points 2 years ago

I thought this was just a joke in persona 5 what the fuck?

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JIMMERZ 7 points 2 years ago

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hungryphrog 0 points 2 years ago

Literal shit tastes like shit? No shit, Sherlock.

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mechoman444 6 points 2 years ago

Ya. I'm good on poop coffee.

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JohnnyCakes 6 points 2 years ago

There's a shitty way to start your morning.

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RVGamer06 6 points 2 years ago

It's not the only shit coffee in the world

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hate2bme 2 points 2 years ago

At least this one the money goes to help the elephants and the people protecting them.

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Persen -5 points 2 years ago

Thankfully I don't drink cofee or alcohol, but have tried nicotine. People should live at least as healthy as me (and I'll probably die at 60).

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gallopingsnail 1 point 2 years ago

Well, thanks for sharing that 👍

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nifty 6 points 2 years ago

Business idea: lab grow the gut microbes of these monkeys and create more efficient pipeline for fermenting these coffee beans. But provide the “natural” offering too for people who have eating ass food fetish.

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ALoafOfBread 9 points 2 years ago

The problem is that it doesn't actually taste good. It's the labor-intensive and "exotic" manufacturing process that makes the coffee so expensive, not its quality.

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nifty 4 points 2 years ago

This person says it does taste good though https://kitchensurfers.com/is-civet-coffee-good/

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ALoafOfBread 6 points 2 years ago

I've seen many more coffee folks who have opinions ranging from "it doesn't taste different than the local coffee" to "it tastes downright bad". James Hoffmann has a good video on it: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=pkbuFwHnJQY

Primary thing seems to be the quality of the coffee cherries the civet eats. So if it's just force-fed coffee cherries, it'll be no better than normal coffee. If it gets to choose on it's own, naturally, then it may pick better coffee cherries and the coffee may be better - but not because of the digestive process, most likely.

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nifty 3 points 2 years ago

That’s fair, people have different perceptions of food stuffs. Like some people hate coriander because to them it tastes like soap

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myrrh 2 points 2 years ago

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nifty 1 point 2 years ago

Makes sense, ass food connoisseurs won’t be disappointed

Edit or might be

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gencha 4 points 2 years ago

I'm not convinced that this will be better than the freeze dried stuff I've been enjoying so far

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systemglitch 1 point 2 years ago

Never know until you try it. I'd be willing to brew a cup at least once.

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baseless_discourse 4 points 2 years ago

Please don't, it is not only a product of colonialism injustice, it is also produced in extremely inhumane manner. To make the matter even worse, the industry consensus is that they tastes terrible.

Related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkbuFwHnJQY

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SuperApples 4 points 2 years ago

I've had it farm fresh in Bali and at a swanky cafe in Penang. The shared characteristic was how smooth it is. Tastes different, not necessarily better or worse. Depends on what you're after in your beverage.

In Penang, we had it with a normal espresso to compare. After drinking the Luwak coffee, the espresso lost all it's flavour... It did something to our sense of taste!

Going through a factory you can tell there's no chance the poop makes it to the final product. In fact, none of the cherry meat is used, only the bean, so I question what effect the digestive process has. Maybe the preparation method is different? I haven't been to a normal coffee factory to compare.

The conditions the Luwak are kept in vary wildly, apparently the worst practices are in Vietnam. The Luwak are super cute , amazing fur, ones kept as pets were fun to interact with. The size of two house cats. Nocturnal, so I've only seen them active once.

I liked the coffee but not so much that I want to support demand for it. The Luwak is a totally unnecessary step in making what is already a great beverage regardless.

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FlyingSquid 1 point 2 years ago

In fact, none of the cherry meat is used

I always wondered why the (non-shat out kind of) cherry fruit wasn't also sold in the West. I've read that the skin is not good, but the flesh itself is quite tasty.

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GrammarPolice 3 points 2 years ago

!communitiestakenliterally

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ThrowawayPermanente 3 points 2 years ago

He's going to feel so relieved

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Kedly 3 points 2 years ago

Unless brewing them in a special way is required to bring out the flavour, it tastes just like regular coffee to me when I had it

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h3mlocke 3 points 2 years ago

I drank some while in Bali 😋

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occhionaut 2 points 2 years ago

Did you know about it before or after drinking it?

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sheogorath 6 points 2 years ago

Before I knew about it I only drank a cup. After I was informed I drank a liter.

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Makhno 4 points 2 years ago

Animal abuse tastes that good, huh?

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sheogorath 4 points 2 years ago

I’ve been testing the taste from human too. So far the best tastes are from Bruma or Winterfell. Each has its own unique taste. I suspect this is caused by the local climate the people lived in.

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schloppah 2 points 2 years ago

I'm gonna throw up. What the fuck

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Anyolduser 2 points 2 years ago

No thank you.

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ekZepp 2 points 2 years ago

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BonesOfTheMoon 2 points 2 years ago

I remember Starbucks carried it before. It was wildly expensive.

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banazir 2 points 2 years ago

It's pretty good actually. Tastes way less like shit than your average cup of coffee anyway.

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Kusimulkku 2 points 2 years ago

It had a very smooth taste from what I remember. Good coffee but not that special tasting imo.

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jenny_ball 2 points 2 years ago

yum

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rsuri 2 points 2 years ago

I bet this started as a troll and then everyone lost the plot

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CptEnder 2 points 2 years ago

That is a legendary grumper though.

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Zozano 1 point 2 years ago

Fairly standard Monday grog bog by my estimation.

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meatlotion 1 point 2 years ago

@Jezebelley sounds to me like a real shit drink

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occultist8128 1 point 2 years ago

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SpaceCowboy 1 point 2 years ago

I learned this from Morgan Freeman.

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distantsounds 1 point 2 years ago

Steve Albini makes a delicious cup of kopi luwak

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UltraMagnus0001 1 point 2 years ago

I remember learning about something similar in The Bucket List movie.

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Ensign_Crab 1 point 2 years ago

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buzz86us 1 point 2 years ago

Learned this from Whoopi Goldberg movie

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A_Random_Idiot 0 points 2 years ago

If someone served me literal-shit coffee, I'd punch them in the mouth.

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tfw_no_toiletpaper 1 point 2 years ago

Fitting username

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A_Random_Idiot 2 points 2 years ago

Did you enjoy a nice coprophilic coffee with your low hanging fruit?

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Oaksey -1 points 2 years ago

I’ve been to one of the places and drank it. The coffee was nice but I’ve never chosen to have it again. The animals seemed happy enough, certainly nothing alarming happening. I’m sure they might prefer to roam free but you could say that about pet cats too.

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