It's a civet. Meaning, it's a mustelid. Reated to weasels, otters, minks and mongooses. Plus those cute little meerkats that people keep making idiotic TV shows about.
Civet coffee is called "kopi luwak" in Malay. A "luwak" being a palm civet.
Most of the kopi luwak on the market is supposedly counterfeit. It sells for such obscene amounts of money ($600 per pound), that lots of poor Malay farmers are quite happy to make up batches of fake kopi luwak, by bleaching raw coffee beans with acid and chlorine bleach.
And a Vietnamese chemist claimes he has hit on a way to make kopi luwak without the luwak--by soaking raw beans in artifical digestive enzymes.
It's a civet. Meaning, it's a mustelid. Reated to weasels, otters, minks and mongooses. Plus those cute little meerkats that people keep making idiotic TV shows about.
Civet coffee is called "kopi luwak" in Malay. A "luwak" being a palm civet.
Most of the kopi luwak on the market is supposedly counterfeit. It sells for such obscene amounts of money ($600 per pound), that lots of poor Malay farmers are quite happy to make up batches of fake kopi luwak, by bleaching raw coffee beans with acid and chlorine bleach.
And a Vietnamese chemist claimes he has hit on a way to make kopi luwak without the luwak--by soaking raw beans in artifical digestive enzymes.