While travelling in Indonesia I was lucky enough to be able to sample the world's rarest coffee!! Here's my report on it.
So where is the world's rarest coffee produced? To be honest when you travel around, lots of places pretend they are the world's best, world's first, world's largest etc. and this sort of thing annoys me - especially in Singapore. It's cringeworthy to claim everything is the best in the world. But this post is for real - this really is a rare coffee!!
I was in Munduk in Bali and touring near rice fields only to find a coffee plantation nearby. While checking out the coffee plantation we were introduced to a somewhat odd looking creature known as the Luwak Fox!! It is this creature that eats red coffee beans, is a mix between a cat, wolf, fox and dog and it helps produce the Luwak Coffee!
The strangest and most flabbergasting fact of this is that the Luwak Fox eats these coffee beans and they come back out in its excretion (yes, it's poo poo!) so this apparently is how the world's rarest coffee is made - from the poo poo of the Luwak fox. Disgusting maybe but life is short and adventurous and I was very much up for trying this amazing Luwak Coffee!!
We noticed a bonus option was to try an alcoholic version of it - so we did - they added a drop of booze into our Luwak Coffee!
The cafe we went to is in Munduk and called Kubu Kopi, but there are a lot of cafes around. If you are on a day tour get your driver to take you to a coffee plantation. It would be hard to find by car to be honest but make sure you're in or around Munduk if you want to try it. The coffee is available all over Indonesia and is also exported so being in Bali isn't your only option by the way!
A picture of the Luwak fox appears on the menu and the coffee is priced at around $8 US dollars. I guess the cheapest place you will get it is here in Bali, at the source. But come on this is the world's rarest coffee and is worth trying! But is it any good? Yes, we loved it - and it arrives in a wooden cup and saucer so you can drink in a unique environment with a view of the many gorgeous fields of Bali without a care in the world.
It's coffee time for me now - will have to go for a more normal one this time! Happy travels!
Where can you get the world's rarest coffee? - In Munduk, Bali, INDONESIA (plus its exported)
What's the name of the world's 'rarest coffee'? - Luwak Coffee
How much will it cost you? - Less than 10 US Dollars (mine was around 8USD)
What's it made of - to be blunt it's the poo poo from the Luwak Fox (which has eaten red coffee beans!)
Should you try it? Of course!! You only get one chance in life, live it!!
So where is the world's rarest coffee produced? To be honest when you travel around, lots of places pretend they are the world's best, world's first, world's largest etc. and this sort of thing annoys me - especially in Singapore. It's cringeworthy to claim everything is the best in the world. But this post is for real - this really is a rare coffee!!
I was in Munduk in Bali and touring near rice fields only to find a coffee plantation nearby. While checking out the coffee plantation we were introduced to a somewhat odd looking creature known as the Luwak Fox!! It is this creature that eats red coffee beans, is a mix between a cat, wolf, fox and dog and it helps produce the Luwak Coffee!
The strangest and most flabbergasting fact of this is that the Luwak Fox eats these coffee beans and they come back out in its excretion (yes, it's poo poo!) so this apparently is how the world's rarest coffee is made - from the poo poo of the Luwak fox. Disgusting maybe but life is short and adventurous and I was very much up for trying this amazing Luwak Coffee!!
We noticed a bonus option was to try an alcoholic version of it - so we did - they added a drop of booze into our Luwak Coffee!
The cafe we went to is in Munduk and called Kubu Kopi, but there are a lot of cafes around. If you are on a day tour get your driver to take you to a coffee plantation. It would be hard to find by car to be honest but make sure you're in or around Munduk if you want to try it. The coffee is available all over Indonesia and is also exported so being in Bali isn't your only option by the way!
A picture of the Luwak fox appears on the menu and the coffee is priced at around $8 US dollars. I guess the cheapest place you will get it is here in Bali, at the source. But come on this is the world's rarest coffee and is worth trying! But is it any good? Yes, we loved it - and it arrives in a wooden cup and saucer so you can drink in a unique environment with a view of the many gorgeous fields of Bali without a care in the world.
It's coffee time for me now - will have to go for a more normal one this time! Happy travels!
Where can you get the world's rarest coffee? - In Munduk, Bali, INDONESIA (plus its exported)
What's the name of the world's 'rarest coffee'? - Luwak Coffee
How much will it cost you? - Less than 10 US Dollars (mine was around 8USD)
What's it made of - to be blunt it's the poo poo from the Luwak Fox (which has eaten red coffee beans!)
Should you try it? Of course!! You only get one chance in life, live it!!
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