5. Excrement Coffee, Indonesia
If you happen to be visiting Indonesia and a friendly local invites you round to their home for a nice cup of coffee, you might have to think twice.
You might be wondering to yourself ‘what’s the problem’, especially when your host tells you that they have made you a lovely gourment coffee. Well, once you discover how this coffee is made, forget about thinking twice, you’ll only have to think once.
Kopi Luwak is the rarest, most expensive gourmet coffee in the world and it’s made by an Indonesian cat-like creature called the Luwak. This a shy, solitary nocturnal forest animal freely prowls nearby coffee plantations at night in the harvest season, eating the choicest ripe coffee cherries.
However, the Luwak’s stomach can’t digest beans inside them, so they come out whole. The stomach acids and enzymes that perform the fermentation of the beans give the coffee a special aroma. So essentially you’re drinking coffee that is basically poop.
And a rather expensive poop at that as this coffee has quite a price tag on it. Coming in, or out really, at a whopping $120 – $300 per pound.
