Civet Cats Coffee Bean. Naturally, when the civets choose their meals they go for the ripest, plump cherries. The civet coffee, also called as luwark coffee, is expensive because of uncommon method of producing such a coffee.

What’s left from that process is then washed, roasted and ground into what people can later drink. Asian palm civets are increasingly caught in the wild. A caged civet cat snacks on coffee berries in bali, indonesia.

As a solution for the unsustainable and inhumane treatment towards civet cats, a vietnamese coffee brand partnered up with a team of german scientists in 1996 to study the effect of the civet cats on coffee and duplicate a natural enzyme soak process that would approximate the same effect.

Ridiculously expensive kopi luwak, or civet coffee, is brewed from beans swallowed and excreted by civets have been called “cruelty in a cup”. At my local specialty coffee bean store, it sells for $420 per pound—or $10 for a 10 oz. Here’s some more information about these uniquely processed, yet extremely expensive coffee beans: So basically, a cat called the asian palm civet eats the berries from a coffee tree, then basically poops them out.