For Gourmands: Digested Coffee Beans

Nothing more than a passing fancy.

Poop coffee was listed on here before wasn't it?

Ooh ooh...

http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/b439/

Nothing new about this at all, it's an international delicacy and pretty common knowledge among coffee fans.

Do they plan on setting up a breeding program and attempt to mass produce the stuff or are they monopolizing the industry on poo coffee like Debeers does with diamonds?

Yikes. they pull this out every year! Yes!! We know about the civet poop coffee!!

I saw this on the food network before. It's still gross.

I'm sure it's delicious. If they strained the coffee grounds through a months-long unwashed gym sock, I'm sure it would even be more yummy.

I think it would be cool if we could get it after passing through other animals. Like tigers, rhinoceri, cheetahs, raccoons and gold fish. The price would be based on the processing capacity of the animal and the danger of retrieving the processed bean. Gold fish would be kind of high based the on the ability to process like a bean a week. Elephants would be a little bit lower in price at the off set but retrieving 200 pounds of processed beans from a pachyderm jacked up on the caffeine from 200 pounds of beans would raise the price back up.

My boyfriend bought me a bag of this for my birthday a couple years ago. It really is the best coffee I've ever had; smooth and chocolaty with absolutely no bitterness at all, and strong, too. My only regret about it is that I made it in such small batches I never used it all up!

For those who think it's gross, keep in mind that the sanitary procedures with which the beans are processed after being collected are far more rigorous than those used on normal coffee beans. They're almost completely sterile when they're packaged.

Golly! Poop beans? No foolin'?

Hey, and guess what? There is this brand new thing out there, it's called...brace yourself..."sushi" and apparently it's mostly raw fish!

It deserved a repost as it now comes with 20% more poop processing.

I can't believe you posted something so old -.- I've seen old articles on Neatorama before but not one that was about such common knowledge before....

I thought civet coffee was old news by now. it was featured in an episode of CSI 3 years ago.

I solve the bitterness problem by throwing the shell of an egg in the pot.
the darker the roast - the more bitter the coffee.

anybody ever seen "The Bucket List"? that is what Jack Nicholson drinks.

There's a better alternative if you desire coffee processed through a digestive system. From Brazil comes "Jacu Bird Coffee". The jacu is a bird that coexists with coffee plantations and eats ripe beans, leaving processed coffee behind, since they're harvested from plantations that grow arabica beans instead of the less desirable robustas that they feed the civets, they start off with better coffee. Better, it HASN'T been touted on CSI or whatever, it doesn't sell for astronomical prices that kopi luwak brings, and it actually is a quite good coffee. google it.

MC
coffee nut

Isn't there another one where it's goats that eat the coffee, then poop it out.
I'm sorry but EW.
Just the fact that it was POO... POOOOOOO... I don't freakin care how "delicious" or chocolatey or whatever it is, that's just disgusting.

Collecting coffee beans for this product has got to be incredibly expensive. I live in the U.S., and shipping it from Malaysia has got to be much of the price alone.

Maybe we could produce it domestically. Ship the beans up from Central America, and feed them to some other inexpensive animal. Or even unemployed humans.

While the information in the blog is old news, I have ever so enjoyed the creativity shared by those commenting. Good stuff.