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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

Yum! And you thought Jamaican Blue Mountain was the ultimate!

I've heard of this before. I'll pass!

Give me Peets Italian Roast, French Roast or Major Dickeson coffees and I'm happy!

I've read about this one before. Ditto what Joey said about Peet's. Or, I'll just go with my home brewed half caffeine, with a splash of vanilla.

One of the best sub-threads throughout "The Bucket List". I'll stick with my Kenyan dry roast....

I may still have some of this in my freezer. Seriously.

A client gave me enough for a few cups around 3 years ago, after a trip to Indonesia. I tried it once, and it didn't do that much for me. Tried it again, and it still didn't appeal as much as my organic Kona. At that point the mind games had set in, and it was consigned to it's place in the back of the chill box...

Maybe, one more time...

No thanks.

I'll stick with my Pilot house blend, haven't fallen asleep at the wheel yet.

Yeah, I've heard about that coffee. Doesn't make me want to go out and buy any. I'll stick to my blend of French Roast and Frangelico flavored (about 3/4 French roast). We go through about 100 lbs/ year of that...

I'll stick to my Italian blend, cause it's cheap! I suspect that somtimes it even tastes like s**t!...
Eden.

Wikipedia wrote:Some sources claim that the beans may be regurgitated instead of defecated.

Well, that's certainly a big consolation to me! That changes everything

Yuck-o... I'll stick with my Kona Purple Mountain thank you

Good to the last drop...

Maybe this works with house-cats...anyone game to try?

I'll join in the general thumbs down. Right now I'm drinking medium roast Euqal Exchange Ethiopian something-or-another I bought at the local health foods grocer.

JimK

antipodean wrote:Maybe this works with house-cats...anyone game to try?

I thought about putting my two little nerds to work...see if they could start earning their keep around here...but I don't know if I want them any more wired than they get from time to time naturally...

I first heard about this stuff quite a while ago. I told a friend about it, and we both wondered about who might have tried the result of this intriguing 'process' first. He came up with an interesting idea: since coffee would have been introduced to Indonesia by the Dutch at some point during their six centuries of happy, benevolent colonial rule, and grown on carefully managed and guarded plantations, it was probably 'off-limits' to the plantation workers themselves...a prohibition that would have been strictly enforced, until the day one of them discovered a secondary 'source' of beans lying on the ground. They might have thought to themselves, and perhaps rightly so, 'there's no way I could get into trouble for this...the 'gule' wouldn't want this stuff anyway'...

Fast forward to today, and the 'gule' (white folks) are the only ones around the world with enough money and interest to drink that which the commoners can no longer afford to keep for themselves. Of course, there's no way to prove or disprove this theory...but I can't quite imagine any other scenario that would account for the first time someone tried 'brewing up a batch' of this highly questionable gourmet delight...

If it is true (and maybe even if not), then once again the very expensive joke's on the elite swine...I'm back to the kitchen now for another cup of Sumatran...from Sumatran trees...