Poo brew: Premium coffee is dung to a turn

[jimmy olsen]

GAAAAH!!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31706286/ns/today_pets/

Poo brew: Premium coffee is dung to a turn
Expensive 'civet coffee' made from beans separated from critter's droppings

updated 10:40 a.m. ET, Thurs., July 2, 2009

Okay, let's get this straight. You take some coffee beans, feed them to a wild, weasel-like mammal, and wait for the beans to get digested and, um, drop? Then you take those beans and turn them into the world's most desired and expensive coffee?

That, indeed, is how something called Kopi Luwak — or civet coffee — is made. First, ripe beans are ingested by a civet, a creature indigenous to Africa and Asia that looks like a cat on steroids. Then, workers go through the civet's droppings and separate the chalky beans (at least we now know the world's worst job). The beans are dried, sterilized and processed into civet coffee, which, apparently, has a magically intense aroma and flavor.

In Europe, roughly 2 lbs. of Kopi Luwak sells for as much as $700 — if, that is, you can find it. A typical civet produces only about an ounce of the stuff a day, so it's unlikely you'll be ordering a decaf dung espresso at Starbucks anytime soon.

Still, if you're a coffee drinker and you have an adventurous streak, you might just savor the idea of having a java brew with such a, ahem, close connection to the wild.

[Zanza]

I would try it.

[Brazen]

GAAAAH!!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31706286/ns/today_pets/

Poo brew: Premium coffee is dung to a turn
Expensive 'civet coffee' made from beans separated from critter's droppings

updated 10:40 a.m. ET, Thurs., July 2, 2009

Okay, let's get this straight. You take some coffee beans, feed them to a wild, weasel-like mammal, and wait for the beans to get digested and, um, drop? Then you take those beans and turn them into the world's most desired and expensive coffee?

That, indeed, is how something called Kopi Luwak — or civet coffee — is made. First, ripe beans are ingested by a civet, a creature indigenous to Africa and Asia that looks like a cat on steroids. Then, workers go through the civet's droppings and separate the chalky beans (at least we now know the world's worst job). The beans are dried, sterilized and processed into civet coffee, which, apparently, has a magically intense aroma and flavor.

In Europe, roughly 2 lbs. of Kopi Luwak sells for as much as $700 — if, that is, you can find it. A typical civet produces only about an ounce of the stuff a day, so it's unlikely you'll be ordering a decaf dung espresso at Starbucks anytime soon.

Still, if you're a coffee drinker and you have an adventurous streak, you might just savor the idea of having a java brew with such a, ahem, close connection to the wild.

Pfft, been able to buy that here since 2006.
http://www.firebox.com/product/1077/Civet-Coffee-Kopi-Luwak

[jimmy olsen]

Europe needs to be purged.

[Ed Anger]

Pfft, been able to buy that here since 2006.
http://www.firebox.com/product/1077/Civet-Coffee-Kopi-Luwak

Better yet, http://www.firebox.com/product/1963/Knight-Rider-R-C-Car

AWESOME.

[DisturbedPervert]

bmollson used to talk about this stuff.

[The Brain]

I miss bmolsson.

[Ed Anger]

Shocking that the Germans didn't think this up first.

Karl: What vill we do?
Gunther: Hey! We make the cat eat these beans, then go through its shit.
Karl: Wunderbar!

[Neil]

Really?  You're just hearing about this now?

[Ed Anger]

Really?  You're just hearing about this now?

It doesn't involve space or Tom Brady, so Tim is behind the curve.

[Phillip V]

There could very well be a market for coffee beans processed through the human gastrointestinal tract.

Entrepreneurs to me!

[Grey Fox]

I wouldn't try it.

Nothing to do with the scat part, Coffee just sucks.

[Admiral Yi]

I'm sure I've seen this story before on Languish.

[Caliga]

Yes, posted by me.  Tim: FAIL.