Well, since this appears to be a forum of coffee lovers (there's at least a few of you out there), I thought I'd post some pics from a week ago when Joel came over and we had some really crappy coffee.
Last year I was given some "Kopi Luwak" for Christmas. Kopi Luwak is coffee from the plantations in Java, Sulawesi, and Sumatra, in Indonesia. What makes Kopi Luwak unique is that it's found in the excrement of the Palm Civet, also known as a Luwak. The story goes, the Luwak only eats the ripest, choicest coffee cherries. These cherries then pass through the Luwak, and the cherries are subjected to stomach acids and enzymes which help ferment the choice beans in a unique way. The Luwak isn't able to digest the coffee cherry, so it passes through intact, without the bean inside ever coming into contact with Luwak.....poop.
Now for some pics:
The potables (some potent).
Beans about to meet their maker (notice, all bean, no dung!)
In this one it's not so obvious that there isn't any "business" brewing in there, but trust me, it's still all bean (and arrowhead water). I've made the Kopi in a French Press before, but the simple Milita drip brewer has provided consistantly great brews for this bean.
Some pics of the final product (with accompanying Cognac and glazed strawberries). I put mine in a glass mug for the picture.
All in all, this is some very flavorful, very potent coffee (or at least it was for the first several months). The beans in the picture are almost a year old, so there was definitely some degradation in flavor and potency, but it was still a surprisingly good cup of joe for how old the beans are. When not being used, they've been vacuum-packed and frozen to prolong their life. Unfortunately, I don't know what kind of availability there is for this coffee, as mine arrived just shortly before the tsunami hit that area.
In conclusion, it's one tasty brew. I don't think I'd shell out the bucks for this coffee myself, but it's fun to be able to try this oddball kind of stuff.
-Nick
Last year I was given some "Kopi Luwak" for Christmas. Kopi Luwak is coffee from the plantations in Java, Sulawesi, and Sumatra, in Indonesia. What makes Kopi Luwak unique is that it's found in the excrement of the Palm Civet, also known as a Luwak. The story goes, the Luwak only eats the ripest, choicest coffee cherries. These cherries then pass through the Luwak, and the cherries are subjected to stomach acids and enzymes which help ferment the choice beans in a unique way. The Luwak isn't able to digest the coffee cherry, so it passes through intact, without the bean inside ever coming into contact with Luwak.....poop.
Now for some pics:
The potables (some potent).
Beans about to meet their maker (notice, all bean, no dung!)
In this one it's not so obvious that there isn't any "business" brewing in there, but trust me, it's still all bean (and arrowhead water). I've made the Kopi in a French Press before, but the simple Milita drip brewer has provided consistantly great brews for this bean.
Some pics of the final product (with accompanying Cognac and glazed strawberries). I put mine in a glass mug for the picture.
All in all, this is some very flavorful, very potent coffee (or at least it was for the first several months). The beans in the picture are almost a year old, so there was definitely some degradation in flavor and potency, but it was still a surprisingly good cup of joe for how old the beans are. When not being used, they've been vacuum-packed and frozen to prolong their life. Unfortunately, I don't know what kind of availability there is for this coffee, as mine arrived just shortly before the tsunami hit that area.
In conclusion, it's one tasty brew. I don't think I'd shell out the bucks for this coffee myself, but it's fun to be able to try this oddball kind of stuff.
-Nick
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, I notice when I eat corn, things seem... ahem.... rather undigested. Perhaps I can retire from my job and sell the resulting product as a gourmet product. Scotto niblets or some such. 
