Kopi Luwak/Civet Poop Coffee: Disgusting or Delightful?
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Kopi Luwak/Civet coffee is a pretty divisive topic, but I wanted to share my understanding of it all and to answer the question of …
Your a legend James!!!
Based James is the best James. Firmly opposing both animal cruelty and blockchain nonsense, what a gentleman
Please do a video about pre infusion as many modern machine has it. Thanks
It’s the Kings New Clothes, nothing more, great video James!
James I love your videos and I love espresso, my friend keeps trying to convince me you cam make espresso in a French press and I need some help here because I know that you can't there's no pressure but he's insistent that if you make strong coffee with "espresso beans" it's an espresso
Civet or weasel does not do anything with modifying how the coffee bean will taste after going thru their digestive system.
The truth is civet or weasel will selectively consume coffee cherry that has desirable aroma, this can be achieved by the animal from freely in the coffee tree and select the best smelling cherries according to their nose.
Forced feeding caged animal will not achieve the same result, it will be just the same as picking coffee cherries right from the tree and roast it.
Dont be fooled and consume allegedly coffee luak. Regular coffee is already enough!
Right on. The bucket list was shit and so is that coffee. I would be interested in more colonial history of coffee if possible.
The blockchain shutdown was pure Hoffmann gold.
I had a cup of this civet coffee at a high-end restaurant here in Seattle. It was brewed at the table, in one of those one-cup vacuum/siphon brewing devices. Frankly, I wasn’t very impressed. Smooth and less acidic than I am used to, but also a bit bland, not much flavor. The brewing was fabulous to watch, however. I’d never seen anything like that before, and I was entranced by the physics of the process. I forget the brand name but found it on Amazon once I got home. No, I didn’t buy it lol. And I’ll strike civet coffee off my bucket list now.
Hey James
I am a coffee farmer in southern India and our estate is next to the jungle and a lot of wild civet cats stroll into our estate and eat coffee and poop. I've collected about 5 kilos of such beans. Let me know if you want them. I can ship it across for you to try. I'm sure you have some friends with a small roaster.
I’ve been hoping you’d do a segment on this for quite some time, and as always, it was worth the wait. Excellent analysis and explanation.
That is a gorgeous sweater, where is it from?
Well this answers a lot of questions that i had, thank you.
Love it. Keep using your platform to help enable positive change
Now I want to try fermenting raw beans in vinegar or something acidic to mimic the gut of any animal.
If Even though this coffee was the most delicious in the world, but was produced in such a horrible way, I am against it. Nothing can justify violence.
I'm originally from Southeast Asia and I was never for this; knowing they caged civets. Thank you for letting people know about this.
Spot on. Thanks!
Have had it before, it’s crap, literally.
Kopi Luwak is the Fioe Gras of coffee
Well I always found the concept of making coffee (or any other food for that matter) from material recovered from droppings to be pretty creepy but I figured perhaps I am just being narrow minded. Thanks to what you have laid out in this video and the comments of people who have tried it I am going to stick to my narrow minded opinion and still find it creepy. Actually even creepier since I now know that a lot of unethical and cruel things are being done to supply something that is not even better than alternatives but is so desired that the price is jacked up.
Total BS
I had the chance to try this coffee back in 2019 when my sister and her family went to Indonesia. They brought me this when they came back to USA because they know I love coffee. But when I received it, I was hesitant to try it.
Anyway, long story short. There was nothing amazing or crazy wild about this coffee. To be honest, Colombian coffee tastes better in my opinion. You wanna try it? I suggest pass it.
Totes not interested. Thanks.
James I agree entirely with you and I have no intentions whatsoever of trying this coffee. 😉
As usual James made me tear up with laughter as he talked about eating your own pooped beans.
Since first read of it I find the whole thing ridiculous
Yes it tastes pretty good. Not sure the price and animal abuse is worth it
Yeah… If it was that great, there would be an easy way to replicate the fermentation/enzyme action on a larger scale than the gut of a small mammal.
But…
…history proves that we are willing to swallow any old shit.
For this same reason, I don't eat meat.
The single best cup of coffee I've experienced in a lifetime. Kopi luwak in Hanoi. It'll be my first stop next time I'm in the city. Once experienced, never forgotten.
I wonder how much someone would pay for a James Hoffmann digested bag of coffee…. The Hoffi Luwak
Already earns a like for expanding my vocabulary. Fecalophile, delightful
I love how you break down things logically!
I wouldn't know how to get ahold of you IRL, but do you know there's someone taking your videos, reediting them and posting them to YouTube? Account name is Hames Joffmann. I can't figure out how to report him to YouTube.
Hats off to that Portland man. A true scientist.
Yeah now I really don‘t wanna try it, good job!
BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO!!!!!
The one thing that didn't get a definitive yes or no is if it's actually worth the price or if it's even good.
But he refused to hunt it down, so we'll never know his opinion on it. The important part in there though is that none of us can know if we're buying real or fake anyway, so just don't waste your money.
As for the "cruelty", well there are many products on your grocery shelves that came from animals living in cramped conditions and being fed a very narrow and low quality diet. If you're going to boycott this coffee simply for that aspect, then it's a bit hypocritical to keep consuming those others such as chicken, beef, pork, and fish.
I don't let it bother me personally. I put the well being of other humans in higher regard than the well being of animals. So yeah, don't let yourselves get ripped off.
Why is the origin of kopi luwak "not worth celebrating"? Who made you the arbiter of what is or is not "worth celebrating"? Now Indonesian businessmen are profiting and gaining social prestige off of a highly in-demand product so they might think its origins are indeed "worth celebrating".
As for the civets, do you have any idea how difficult it is living in the wild? (Hint: It's called "the wild" for a reason.) Do you have any idea of how relatively easy the lives of captive livestock are compared to their wild counterparts? Do you have even the slightest inkling that the kopi luwak farmers have no incentive whatsoever to mistreat their civets and every incentive in the world to treat them humanely?
Stop speaking for everyone else when you have absolutely no basis whatsoever claiming such arrogant, condescending moral superiority.
Guy from Portland, OR: "This coffee tastes like shit."
I drank a cup of Luwak many years ago on Sumatra. I remember seeing how the 'cats' were being kept, and it bummed me out massively.
Don't remember anything of the coffee, remember everything of those poor animals.
The very Best coffee I had was a mid roast from Starbucks in beans, SIMPLY AN EXPERIENCE in my home pressure coffer. That honey like yellow one (cover).
Maybe I may try swallowing coffee beans myself lmao. Ok am joking.
Thank you for sharing this. I have been mildly curious about kopi luwak for 20 years and never got around to trying it. Now I know that I never need to, and I have no desire to support the shenanigans and cruelty involved in producing the stuff.
I'm a coffee roaster and people sometimes ask if I sell it or what I thought of it. I always tell them that I'm not interested in drinking or selling sh!t. Even if James were to say that it's truly delicious, I would still not roast or drink it because of animal cruelty and because it's from sh!t.
I've disliked or disagreed with your opinion on a lot of things but, for today, you are the ruler of my heart.