Luwak Coffee

Is a high quality coffee, processed by the Asian Palm Civet.

The raw coffee beans are eaten by Asian Palm Civets. These are little animals living in the forests of southeast asia. In these civets, special enzymes remove the bitterness of the coffee beans which results in a smooth tasting, not-bitter, rich tasting, high quality coffee. Because of that the coffee has it’s unique flavor.The name comes from the native language of Indonesia: “Kopi” means “Coffee” and “Luwak” means “Asian Palm Civet”.

Bali, Sumatra and Jakarta were the places where the coffee came up first.In the Indonesian colonial times, the dutch harvested the coffee beans of the plantations. The farmers weren’t allowed to harvest them themselves. So they didn’t have a product to sell anymore. These were hard times for the farmers, so they started collecting the coffee beans, they found on the floor (in the droppings of the Asian Palm Civets).That’s how the farmers found out that the coffee tasted better than the “normal” coffee, they usually drank.