I love a good cup of coffee on my travels, but have you ever tried the world's rarest coffee??
So where does the world's rarest coffee come from? Well as a traveller you quickly learn that everywhere advertises and promotes themselves as "the world's best", "the world's highest", "the world's cheapest" etc. so to be honest I normally take no notice of such things. Singapore is a city renowned for exaggerating stuff and quite frankly on my few trips there it has made me cringe the amount of things they claim to be the world's best or the world's first.
So earlier this year I was on a tour round North Bali in Indonesia with my Brazilian friend Rodrigo and we came across a coffee plantation in amongst the many rice fields of Bali. After a quick visit to the actual plantation, we were shown a bizarre creature living in a cage. This creature in the Luwak Fox! (The what? - it seemed to me to be a strange mix between a wolf, cat, dog and fox). Why am I telling you this? Because the Luwak Fox is a rare breed and it relies on red coffee beans to survive.
The oddest and most disturbing fact of this is that the Luwak Fox digests the coffee bean and it comes back out in its excretion (yes, it's sh1t!) and this is how they made the world's rarest coffee. It's coffee which has been digested and excreted by the Luwak Fox. When our guide told us this, I really didn't believe it, but reports later on confirmed it. So we had to try it. The name, obviously is Luwak Coffee.
We noticed a bonus option was to try an alcoholic version of it - so we did - they added a drop of booze into our Luwak Coffee!
The cafe we went to is in Munduk and called Kubu Kopi, but there are a lot of cafes around. If you are on a day tour get your driver to take you to a coffee plantation. It would be hard to find by car to be honest but make sure you're in or around Munduk if you want to try it. The coffee is available all over Indonesia and is also exported so being in Bali isn't your only option by the way!
A picture of the Luwak fox appears on the menu and the coffee is priced at around $8 US dollars. I guess the cheapest place you will get it is here in Bali, at the source. But come on this is the world's rarest coffee and is worth trying! But is it any good? Yes, we loved it - and it arrives in a wooden cup and saucer so you can drink in a unique environment with a view of the many gorgeous fields of Bali without a care in the world.
Right, I'm off to get myself a coffee (a 'normal' granulated one). Don't Stop Living!
Where to buy the world's rarest coffee? - Munduk, Bali, INDONESIA (it's also exported)
What is the world's rarest coffee? - Luwak Coffee
Price - Around 8 US Dollars for one cup
What's it made of - to be blunt it's the poo poo from the Luwak Fox (which has eaten red coffee beans!)
Is it worth trying? - Seriously of course it is - you can waste 8US Dollars on a lot worse!!
So where does the world's rarest coffee come from? Well as a traveller you quickly learn that everywhere advertises and promotes themselves as "the world's best", "the world's highest", "the world's cheapest" etc. so to be honest I normally take no notice of such things. Singapore is a city renowned for exaggerating stuff and quite frankly on my few trips there it has made me cringe the amount of things they claim to be the world's best or the world's first.
So earlier this year I was on a tour round North Bali in Indonesia with my Brazilian friend Rodrigo and we came across a coffee plantation in amongst the many rice fields of Bali. After a quick visit to the actual plantation, we were shown a bizarre creature living in a cage. This creature in the Luwak Fox! (The what? - it seemed to me to be a strange mix between a wolf, cat, dog and fox). Why am I telling you this? Because the Luwak Fox is a rare breed and it relies on red coffee beans to survive.
The oddest and most disturbing fact of this is that the Luwak Fox digests the coffee bean and it comes back out in its excretion (yes, it's sh1t!) and this is how they made the world's rarest coffee. It's coffee which has been digested and excreted by the Luwak Fox. When our guide told us this, I really didn't believe it, but reports later on confirmed it. So we had to try it. The name, obviously is Luwak Coffee.
We noticed a bonus option was to try an alcoholic version of it - so we did - they added a drop of booze into our Luwak Coffee!
The cafe we went to is in Munduk and called Kubu Kopi, but there are a lot of cafes around. If you are on a day tour get your driver to take you to a coffee plantation. It would be hard to find by car to be honest but make sure you're in or around Munduk if you want to try it. The coffee is available all over Indonesia and is also exported so being in Bali isn't your only option by the way!
A picture of the Luwak fox appears on the menu and the coffee is priced at around $8 US dollars. I guess the cheapest place you will get it is here in Bali, at the source. But come on this is the world's rarest coffee and is worth trying! But is it any good? Yes, we loved it - and it arrives in a wooden cup and saucer so you can drink in a unique environment with a view of the many gorgeous fields of Bali without a care in the world.
Right, I'm off to get myself a coffee (a 'normal' granulated one). Don't Stop Living!
Where to buy the world's rarest coffee? - Munduk, Bali, INDONESIA (it's also exported)
What is the world's rarest coffee? - Luwak Coffee
Price - Around 8 US Dollars for one cup
What's it made of - to be blunt it's the poo poo from the Luwak Fox (which has eaten red coffee beans!)
Is it worth trying? - Seriously of course it is - you can waste 8US Dollars on a lot worse!!
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To learn more about insane coffee journeys and Coffee in East Timor check out the overlanding Indonesia part of Don't Stop Living travel website.
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