Extreme Coffee -- Sumatra

September 2007
It's the most exotic, rare and expensive coffee in the world. Kopi Luwack which comes from the dung of the Common Palm Civet or Luwack is so rare some believe it doesn't exist.

Much of the coffee which can sell for more than $50 dollars a cup in New York, Hong Kong or Tokyo has been cut or is simply fake.

The ABC's foreign affairs editor Peter Cave is a coffee lover who has been seeking the real thing for many years, so he headed to the mountains of Sumatra to track down the exotic brew and sample it with the farmers who collect the civet dropping from the forest floor and who are experimenting with taming and domesticating the increasingly endangered Luwak.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[alkafx]

u guys need to try the beans i shit outta my ass this morning

[DavsSautionFam]

Loulogio.

[mkmto]

hahaha



[Jason Orteza]

If the Coffee from Poop, would not drink it, even how expensive it is..

[kansterstrak]

I got coffee made of shit at home from Vietnam. it's best best coffee I have ever drinked.

[bagelboi66]

I don't care how posh it is I'd still rather have Timmies.

[insanert84]

I make the best. Well my cat does. It's called "Kopi House Cat"

[plplplplomg]

now that this coffie popularity grew, these animals are being massively captured and kept in captivity in terrible condition similar to chicken farm and force fed coffie which is bad diet for them...

[Bill Ptolemy]

bull shit !

[Heutske]

I can efford it, but I won't drink it. Just because some animal pooped it.

No thanks! There are other ways to produce such kind of coffee's.