The wild civets will only eat the ripest and tastiest beans that have fallen off the bush and after progressing through the animal’s digestive system, the outer covering of the bean is digested, leaving the ‘perfect’ coffee bean. . . HOWEVER. . . . now the civets are not wild, they are kept in cages and fed the WORST beans that the humans can find and this is what is sold at exorbitant prices as “Kopi Lewak” . . It really is shit coffee, unlike what WILD civets produce
Reminds me of the old joke:
Customer: Ach! This coffee tastes like mud!
Waiter: That’s funny, it was GROUND this morning.
The wild civets will only eat the ripest and tastiest beans that have fallen off the bush and after progressing through the animal’s digestive system, the outer covering of the bean is digested, leaving the ‘perfect’ coffee bean. . . HOWEVER. . . . now the civets are not wild, they are kept in cages and fed the WORST beans that the humans can find and this is what is sold at exorbitant prices as “Kopi Lewak” . . It really is shit coffee, unlike what WILD civets produce