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Went to Indonesia recently - had the coffee the cat eats and shits out. Really good.
describe the taste. ive read about that stuff before and always been intrigued by it, but for some reason i feel like its the Indonesian people playing a really good practical joke on tourists. "people pay out the ass for coffee, so lets make them pay out the ass for something that actually came out of an ass." thats my theory.
how much did it cost too? i heard its like $50 a cup or something outrageous like that. i also believe that people love to pretend that the more something costs, the better it is.
not trying to knock the stuff. obviously ive never tried it, but i am skeptical on this shit.
In Bali - a bag of it can run around $40 or $50 American; one of the more expensive things I got there. Exchange rate is very favorable. Here in NY - one cup out of that bad could easily run $50 (if you could even find it.)
I sampled a cup for about $5 bucks over there - it's super, super smooth, I guess similar to Jamaican blue mountain, but EVEN smoother. The bottom of the cup turns into super sludge, because the composition of the bean has underwent some really weird shit in the stomach of the Luwak.
The locals found out about this because the Dutch colonized Bali ages ago, and limited the Balinese people to one cup a day. One day, someone found the shit pellet that looked like the coffee beans, brewed it because it's all they has access to, and this coffee was born. If you can find the shit pellets in the wild, it's even better, because the cat only eats the best coffee berries it can find.
I'd say if you come across it - splurge and try it.