Kopi Luwak Coffee

[monkey66]

It may encourage the process

hmm differnet techniques?? will flicking the bean get a good result?

[celsis]

Monkey, I prefer Java and use a cafetiere with off the boil water. What d'you reckon? Sometimes it's great but other times, well, it's not the same! I've got to work out the way to have good coffee EVERY time!

[monkey66]

Take a look at some of James Hoffmans videos, lots of good tips there. Have a dig around there are lots to see.

http://www.squaremileblog.com/2008/12/27/videocast-3-chemexpourover/

[nicwing]

they have kopi luwak in algerian coffee shop dont they?

they've got some unrefined (in the ball of shit), and some refined beans sitting in the window?

Does the weight you pay for include the sh1t?

I don't really believe that. Imagine the carbon footprint and cost of transporting sh1t all the way from miles away just to pull the beans out in the UK.

How environmentally unfriendly is that?

[Lee Nub]

We should set a competition, what's the most usual animal shit coffee bean you can source.

[J Cano]

There is a coffee from weasel's poo they drink in Vietnam. I bet that would go good with a Guantanamera!

[Lionhound]

Cheers Lee,
Thanks to your suggestion my two hyper, foaming at the mouth, Rhodesian Ridgebacks have chased away the bin men, eaten the postie and chewed the three piece suite. Busy sifting dog turds just now.
Hope you enjoy the coffee . I'll let you try it first, thanks.

[Lee Nub]

Sounds great, I was just going to say maybe I should give some to my mastiff and pass them off as elephant turds

[nicwing]

We should set a competition, what's the most usual animal shit coffee bean you can source.

You bastard, you just made me spray my breakfast all over the keyboard

[monkey66]

Remember the animal needs to eat the raw coffee cherries (not roasted beans).

Of course don't let this put you off feeding your pets coffee beans and sending the results to Nic

[Lionhound]

On the basis of the old joke about why elephants paint their balls red and the loudest noise in the jungle being giraffes eating cherries, I think I will forgo the opportunity to participate in this competition on personal safety grounds. (he he, "grounds" eh like in coff....... Oh never mind.

[celsis]

In 1989, I went to Nicaragua to help build a hospital and do a crash course in how to strip and reassemble and AK 47.

While there, I met a coupla Canadian girls in Managua who were in the country to pick coffee. They should me a handful of what they had picked and I was amazed! I don't know what I expected raw coffee to look like, but I certainly didn't expect red cherries! Strange how something that looks like hawthorn berries should turn into coffee! Wonder who roasted the berries and then brewed them first?

I'll resist the temptation to launch into the Walter Raleigh skit!

[Big_T_UK]

Finally bit the bullet, I am drinking Kopi Luwak now. The local coffee god is doing a short run of it and so I gave in and got a mortgage for a cafeteria of one. This should be interesting.

T.

[Stevieboy]

got a mortgage for a cafeteria

T.

surely it would be cheaper just to buy a cafeti?re....no need to buy the whole restaurant Trev LOL

[Big_T_UK]

Bloody auto-spell check! Cheers.

T.