Guest guest Posted January 1, 2006 Report Share Posted January 1, 2006 An article about Kopi Luwak - coffee beans which have passed through a civet http://tinyurl.com/8k6kd I had heard about civet coffee before, but it just occured to me - I wonder if anyone has ever made an eo out of these beans - for a cruelty free civet note? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 At 11:37 PM 1/1/2006, you wrote: >An article about Kopi Luwak - coffee beans which have passed through a civet >http://tinyurl.com/8k6kd > >I had heard about civet coffee before, but it just occured to me - I >wonder if anyone has >ever made an eo out of these beans - for a cruelty free civet note? > > I'm not sure, but has this product been restricted somehow? Not by law... I'm trying to remember ... maybe the govt cracked down? Anya http://.com The premier site on the Web to discover the beauty of Natural Perfume / Join to study natural perfumery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 > > > > I'm not sure, but has this product been restricted somehow? Not by > > law... I'm trying to remember ... maybe the govt cracked down? > > > Which government? > > This place claims to sell it: > http://www.firebox.com/?dir=firebox & action=product & pid=1077 > It is only shipping within the UK... I'm a coffee afficionado (reasonable one), though I do not know if I'm ready for this. If someone ventures, please share the impression! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 > > > > I'm not sure, but has this product been restricted somehow? Not by > > law... I'm trying to remember ... maybe the govt cracked down? > > > Which government? > > This place claims to sell it: > http://www.firebox.com/?dir=firebox & action=product & pid=1077 > And this IS quite a popular topic - this is WSJ's two cents: May We Take Your Ordure? Yesterday's follow-up on last year's item about coffee harvested from the droppings of small animals brought an e-mail from our colleague Gordon Crovitz, who notes that Dave Barry's 1997 column was not the first press account of such mucky mocha. From the Far Eastern Economic Review, Sept. 7, 1995: Cut chon coffee comes from beans that have passed through the intestines of the chon, a fox that spends much of its time nosing around coffee bushes. But the chon, which Peregrine Vietnam Managing Director Nguyen Trung Truc calls " the finest coffee connoisseurs in the world, " is not an indiscriminate snacker. It eats only the best of the ripened coffee beans. Writes Crovitz: " I was editing the Review at that time and distinctly recall questioning the reporter over whether a story as wonderful as fox-drop coffee could possibly be true. It was. I declined to confirm personally whether the coffee is or is not strangely delicious. " An even earlier mention came in a March 1981 National Geographic article. Author Ethel A. Starbird described a visit to a Javanese coffee plantation: Harvest was in full swing. Flocks of dainty little Javanese women perched in the treetops, picking away and twittering to each other like so many brown birds. " Another native we have also picks with care, " [owner] Doyo [soeyono Kertosastro] told me over a superb cup of coffee. " The luak, that's a small catlike animal, gorges after dark on the most ripe, the best of our crop. It digests the fruit and expels the beans, which our farm people collect, wash, and roast, a real delicacy. " Something about the natural fermentation that occurs in the luak's stomach seems to make the difference. For Javanese, this is the best of all coffees--our Kopi luak. " He refilled my cup. " I'd like to try it sometime, " I told him more out of politeness than conviction. " You just did. " The FEER piece had some bad news, though: " Farmers in Dak Lak province say the foxes are becoming rarer--as are their droppings. " If they can make coffee from endangered feces, maybe soon they'll make Puerto Rico a steak! http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/ for 06/01/04 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 At 11:21 PM 1/4/2006, you wrote: >If they can make coffee from endangered feces, maybe soon they'll >make Puerto Rico a steak! OK, don't they mean " make Puerto Rico a *state*? " Whoa, what a slip, and I'm not sure if it's Freudian, or Meatian. I'm going to ask my neighbor, a Boriquan, if she wants her homeland to be a steak. Should be an interesting reply I get, lol. Anya http://.com The premier site on the Web to discover the beauty of Natural Perfume / Join to study natural perfumery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 >An article about Kopi Luwak - coffee beans which have passed through a civet >http://tinyurl.com/8k6kd > >I had heard about civet coffee before, but it just occured to me - I >wonder if anyone has >ever made an eo out of these beans - for a cruelty free civet note? > > I'm not sure, but has this product been restricted somehow? Not by law... I'm trying to remember ... maybe the govt cracked down? Along these lines, I have a little packet of Trung Nguyen Coffee, called Legendee, from Vietnam. It has (Weasel) written at the top of the packet. My son brought two packets to me from his travels this summer, so I am assuming that its sale was not restricted. I brewed one pot from the packet, and blended the balance of it with other coffee, not impressed with the flavor, and kind of put off by the processing. Yes, it's supposed to have passed through a weasel. I am thrilled at the thought of tincturing the coffee in the second packet. A much more palatable use! I will let you know how it goes. I visited the website, _www.trungnguyen.com.vn_ (http://www.trungnguyen.com.vn) , but did not see a way to translate it for further info. Forrest Secret Garden Soap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 This was on CSI too. haud desiderium sieze dies Orbis terrarum est meus oyster vos mos non subsisto mihi EGO sum a comic indoles Janek-Markey Soapywench@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 From Nikki: > So I was just reading about a new type of coffee made from the > > droppings of Civets who chew on the raw coffee berries (beans). > > > > It was described as musky, chocolate, earthy..... > > > > It is extremely expensive and supposed to help preserve their > > habitats... > > > > > > OOO, Nikki - I just can't get over drinking pooped out food! It > might make an interesting tincture, but I'd gag if I knew what I was > really drinking... > > (taking my caffeine the traditional way!) From Nikki: I read where they are charging appx. $600.00 a pound for this!!!! Hey, if this goes to helping protect the Civet's habitat and their general existence, I am all for it...... Nikki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 Edited to drastically trim......... thanks so much for this info~ im so glad i quit coffee now:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 On 20/08/07, Goodwin <cgood@...> wrote: > > From Nikki: > > I read where they are charging appx. $600.00 a pound for this!!!! <snip> > Holey Shamoley!! At $600/pound their habitat could be a high rise > condo in the forest, lol!!! I'll have to send positive vibes - can't > afford that kind of cash for any type of bean, let alone, " recycled " - > I wonder how much that is per cup?? (My brain is to old to do that kind > of math) Arhhh - but how would it tincture??? Would it have that *special something*? that Oooo - What the hell is THAT? factor.... (turning foot and looking at sole of shoe...) LOL LLx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 > > So I was just reading about a new type of coffee made from the > droppings of Civets who chew on the raw coffee berries (beans). > > It was described as musky, chocolate, earthy..... > > It is extremely expensive and supposed to help preserve their > habitats... > > check out this site > > http://tinyurl.com/2pxv8k > > Thought that was really an interesting twist! > > Nikki > www.gabrielsaunt.com I started roasting my own beans after having had my fill of shitty coffee (usually from the pencil shavings at Dunkin' Dog-nuts or the incinerated beans at Tarbucks). Reminds me of the monkey poop coffee people were raving about years ago. It would be one thing if whole beans were being taken out of the poop and washed... but drinking " poop coffee " ??? No way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 Here we go again with the poopy coffee thread. It rears its stinky head every few months. I always link to this pic, but now the kopi lewak turd is immortalized in our Photo section: http://health.ph./group//photos/view/4383?b=1 Drink it and weep. -- Sincerely, Anya Anya's Garden of Natural Perfume http://AnyasGarden.com Natural Perfumers Guild http://NaturalPerfumersGuild.com Natural Perfumers 1200+ members Group http://tinyurl.com/78kmv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 On Aug 20, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Anya wrote: > Here we go again with the poopy coffee thread. It rears its stinky > head > every few months. I always link to this pic, but now the kopi lewak > turd > is immortalized in our Photo section: > http://health.ph./group//photos/ > view/4383?b=1 > > Drink it and weep. Sorry about bringing up old news. Didn't realize. It was all over the local news stations today so it was new news to me! Thought it was interesting anyway..... Back to my doppio espresso! Nikki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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