Wild Kopi Luwak, the World’s Most Exclusive Coffee, Sustainably Sourced From Sumatra, Indonesia (100gr / 3.5oz)

Thank you for the delightful coffee! I had heard of your product from my nephew over a Cup of Joe. You see, I've never had the stomach for bitter coffee and ran across feline filtration quite by accident. Frustrated with a bag of "Brand X" beans, I hucked them toward the rubbish bin. I'll confess that my throwing strength is more suited to chucking a D20 across a table than to tossing a sack of beans across the breakfast nook. The bag missed the bin and beans scattered about. Beans, my furry feline friend, pounced on the mess and devoured half of the bag before I could step back from my typewriter! After a trip to the vet Beans and I knew she'd have to wait it out. After a sleepless night Beans deposited three clean clumps of what looked like caramelized coffee beans right in the middle of, well, normal cat leavings! I only feed my Beansy fresh, organic food, so it's not even gross for me to reach in and inspect. Well, I rinsed them right off, and they were whole, hard beans. I had no choice! I had to brew... what turned me into a coffee lover for life! Which brings me to your product. My nephew was rinsing out the French press and noted that it had kind of an ammonia smell to it, like a litter box. For some reason I thought I had told him how I've prepared my coffee for the last ten years (and three cats), but I hadn't. So I did. He told me about some movie with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman and some super expensive coffee. The great thing about Amazon is that you don't have to be curious about anything for more than two days. My review: I rate this product five stars because I don't think most people will go through the trouble of making their own at home. This stuff costs six dollars a cup. That's not cheap. It is easier than you think to make this stuff at home. Your cat will eat coffee beans (I'm on Beans III), and digestion is inevitable. If you love your cats you should be feeding them clean food anyway, so you just have them do three or four coffee nights per week, depending on your coffee usage. Wild is just a marketing term. Cat poo is cat poo.

Jack Nicholson calling this the "best coffee in the world" is well deserved. Those taking from Morgan Freeman in the movie Bucket List, mentioned that this is 'cat poop' coffee which, though funny, is untrue and inaccurate. Civets and Genets (picture included) are mostly nocturnal animals along the same line but ultimately different classification from cats. The Luwak here is from the Indonesian rain forest. They consume the coffee fruit but cannot digest the bean which they ultimately 'poop'. The beans are processed and drank by the locals which they claim tastes much better (and I would agree). Objectively, the coffee tastes as if it has no acidity and no bitterness but has it's unique flavor profile which is challenging for me to describe. It tastes very clean, despite it's life cycle. Very sweet and pleasant is how I would put it but ultimately you just have to try it. This is a nice treat to have on occasions (i.e. dinner parties, weddings) but I can't see myself drinking it everyday. I drink very strong lattes (i.e. double shots) with protein powder and couldn't imagine reducing this item to a daily drink. It's just too nice. Please keep in mind we use a lot of items from nature that we could make fun of. Ambergris is said to be sperm whale poop, caviar is fish roe, and many pharmaceuticals use horse urine. I assure you there is no unpleasant element here. Very nice. Must try. Five stars.

Bought these as they are wildly sourced, not taken from caged animals that are fed the fruits! So you get the best quality beans because they seek out the best fruits and the beans are beyond wonderful!!! I would love to have a larger batch of these beans!!! The taste is amazing and not bitter in the slightest!! Actually has a very nice fruity note to it!! Wish I could get more right now!!! I will definitely be buying more when I can!

Revision 4.22.25 The reaction on my dads face was priceless, worth the price! It's a good cup of coffee. That being said, unless you drink your coffee black the cost outweighs the flavor. When I first try new coffees I always try them black. That way there's nothing masking the taste of the coffee. This coffee is really good black. But again the cost outweighs the flavor. That being said just like a Wagu steak. If you have the opportunity to try it , you should. But the cost outweighs the flavor.

I'll be up front and say that I purchased this coffee as the result of losing a bet with a co-worker. I am well known in my office for being a tremendous coffee (more accurately, espresso) snob, so my co-worker thought it would be funny to make me drink coffee where the beans had been obtained from the natural excretion of a wild feline that looks like a remarkable cross between a raccoon and a ferret. Anyway - the bet was lost, so I donated some hard earned amazon credits to purchase this "world renowned" coffee. Before delving into a description of the taste profile, I want to make one thing pretty clear to the manufacturer of this particular coffee. And that is if you are going to advertise on the package that there is 100 grams of Kopi Luwak coffee in the package, there better damn well be 100 grams of coffee in the package. At just over $100 a pound, I made darn sure to accurately measure the amount of coffee that was in the bag, and my scale read exactly 84 grams. Guess what the packaging weighed? Yep! 16 grams. Consider me pissed that I received 16% less of this exorbitantly priced gourmet product than was promised. But I digress - on to the coffee. The packaging indicates that the coffee contained therein has a noticeably low acidity, with a nearly floral taste profile. Unlike the weight indicator, that description largely proved to be accurate when I brewed multiple cups of coffee according to the directions printed on the bag. Specifically, I used a Baratzo Vario grinder to relatively coarsely grind the beans. I added 25 grams of grounds to an Espro french press along with 5oz of spring water heated to exactly 203 degrees Fahrenheit. The mixture was stirred and allowed to steep for four minutes, after which it was filtered using the built in filters in the french press. The resulting extract had a deep chocolate brown color which was only slightly transparent, with only a few extremely fine grains of coffee grounds present. The aroma was pleasant though not overly strong and, while I hate to say this, was not exceptionally different from any other type of run of the mill coffee I have smelled. The taste profile was noticeably non-acidic, and the brew had a nice velvety mouth feel that I though was somewhat unusual for coffee. The flavor was only mildly bitter, with some earthy overtones. All in all - a pretty nice cup of coffee. Now comes the big question - is this stuff worth more than $100 a pound? In my opinion (as an Educated Coffee Connoisseur), the answer is a polite but firm, no. The coffee has a nice flavor profile, but that profile is simply not unique or interesting enough to warrant spending a large amount of money to obtain, in my opinion. Apart from the noticeable lack of acidity, there is nothing to make this coffee "pop" or standout relative to other high end (but far more reasonably priced) coffees I have tasted. Put differently, it just lacks that certain Je ne sais quoi. That being said - if you have not tried Civet coffee before, it is definitely worth splurging on so that you can say that you have tasted its unique (though somewhat uninteresting) flavor profile. But I would be very surprised if all but the most die hard Prilosec patients would honestly prefer it over other, more interesting coffees.

Good

This is a very bold coffee .

Honestly this could have been a Colombian coffee that was over roasted. I have been roasting coffee for over 6 years. I sought out this coffee for what is supposed to be its exceptional flavor. However what I received was coffee that was close to a dark roast with an overpowering charcoal flavor. It was also very oily, which is happens for two reasons: 1. Its been over roasted pushing the oils to the surface of the bean as opposed to keeping them locked in the bean protecting it from coming into contact with air. Natural oils on the inside give the coffee its rich crema and flavor. Expose that oil to air and its ruined. 2. Adding other oils to the coffee to protect it from humidity and hide a stale flavor. This is a common practice in humid climates. You could hardly tell what's the difference between this expensive coffee vs any Arabica bean that has been roasted to a near dark roast. To truly appreciate coffee and its flavors and profile, you cannot have an overpowering smokey taste. Even when I roast my blends to a dark roast I take care to make sure the charcoal, burnt smokey taste is not so powerful that that is all you taste. Having said all of the above, I was truly disappointed and feel I did not get any value for the price that I paid.