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January 26, 2025 — Dustin Yu
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This article is from our February 2017 issue where we included this amazing answer from Lee Knuttila, the lead roaster and green buyer at Cut Coffee (along with a fantastic El Sal that he roasted). We loved this answer so much we had to post it online for all to see.
If you haven’t heard of Kopi Luwak, you might know it by what it’s most commonly called – “that cat poo coffee”.
It’s an Indonesian coffee product that has garnered a lot of attention specifically for the fact that a cat/raccoon like animal, the Asian Palm Civet, eats the coffee berry and digests it. From there the coffee is extracted from the excrement, roasted and brewed. Something that has been defecated ruins all preconceived notions of what should taste good - however it’s garnered the allure and the reputation of being the tastiest coffee available.
