Topic: World's most expensive coffee at £50 ($100) a cup

[Hope]

World's most expensive coffee at £50 a cup comes to British stores...and it's made from cats' droppings

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=558540&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=



The palm civet: Bean processor

It might not be to everyone's taste - and that's not just because at £50 a cup it's the most expensive coffee in the world.

The secret behind the special blend about to go on sale at an upmarket department store is that it is made from cats' droppings.

While such an ingredient might leave many spluttering into their cups, Peter Jones thinks it is on to a winner.

For the rest of April, it is serving espressos, Americanos and lattes made from the droppings in its in-store coffee shop in Sloane Square, central London.

And for those who want the ultimate talking point over the after-dinner mints, the coffee beans are also on sale at £50 for 100 grams.

The store, part of the John Lewis partnership, has bought 60 packets of the exclusive blend of Jamaican Blue Mountain and the Kupi Luwak bean.

The bean is rare, with less than 450lb harvested each year.

The beans are extracted from the droppings of the palm civet, a cross between a cat and a monkey which lives in Indonesia.

The civets eat the soft coffee cherries, digest the fruit pulp and excrete the beans on the forest floor, because they cannot digest the beans.

Plantation workers then collect the beans, which are sold as Luwak coffee.

The civets are said to pick the best and ripest coffee berries.

It is also thought that their gastric juices may add to the flavour.

Now Peter Jones customers can taste flavour for themselves, with all proceeds from sales going to a cancer charity.

One, 23-year-old Hannah Silver, said: "I was a little apprehensive before I tried it but I actually really liked it. It was very earthy and it tastes very smooth.

"It wasn't too bitter and the earthiness really came through - probably because of where the beans have come from.

"It is a delicacy so I can definitely see someone wanting to pay £50 for this, perhaps for a present."

[BobbyR]

I think I will stick with Waffle House and Dunkin Donuts thank you.

[tramp]

i'll never look at kitty the same way
i wonder if they give them something to help them make coffee faster?

[mrblasty]

We could bring the price of that stuff down drasticly by getting a couple hundred of the civets at lash them to cold metal cage in a dark warehouse thousands of miles away from it natural habitat and force feeding it beans all day and night. Then when it finally keels over I bet it's coat would make an excellent coat of hat.

[HondaMan]

"Alll God's Creatures look best next to the mashed potatos and gravy"? 

Prior to this post, I thought the most expensive ice cream and coffee was the stuff we would get from mounting up in Denver, riding to Vail, Glenwood Springs, and Aspen, to have in Aspen. Then we'd route south through Independence Pass and the Wildreness, to Buena Vista and the Collegiate 14-ers, turn north on 285 through the vast South Park (where my land is, gotta go check on it...) and back over Kenosha Pass, thru Bailey into Denver again. Only takes 6 hours for a hotfoot, 9 hours at the speed limits, or 11 hours if you're riding 2-up with a dozen friends.

One drawback: you don't get to eat bugs when riding these mountain routes: there aren't any. You gotta stop to munch on something... 

RXman: don't it make you wish the snow would stop, this year? 

[754]

 And I thought it was only OZ..

 
where they say.......

"Another cuppa Piss, mate?".............

[troppo]

And I thought it was only OZ..

 
where they say.......

"Another cuppa Piss, mate?".............

do a quick google, the US is the largest market, so maybe its the yanks that take the #$%*
coffee