Kopi Luwak Price 250 Yuan per 100g_Kopi Luwak Also Has Male and Female Beans_Indonesian Kopi Luwak Price

What are the most expensive coffees in the world?

The answer would certainly include civet coffee.

Civet coffee, also known as kopi luwak, comes from Sumatra, Indonesia.

Civet coffee beans cost up to $300 per pound, which is 10 times more expensive than Blue Mountain coffee.

The reason it is so expensive is that it is the excrement of civet cats.

From Indonesia comes Kopi Luwak (in Indonesian, Kopi means coffee and Luwak means civet cat).

In America it is called civet coffee or cat poo coffee.

When civet cats eat coffee cherries from the trees, the coffee that comes out after passing through their digestive tract is what is known as civet coffee.

The coffee cherries are not digested in the civet's stomach, but enzymes in the digestive tract combine with the beans and break down proteins, which reduces the coffee's bitterness and astringency.

Because the beans cannot be digested, they are excreted whole.

The beans are still covered in parchment on the outside. After washing, sun-drying, and roasting, they become civet coffee.

It looks disgusting, but many people love to drink it. So, after a long search, I finally got to try some, and a cup is not cheap.

The beans are ground fresh, which is said to taste better.

The brewing method is to put the ground coffee into filter paper and pour hot water directly over it.

For drinking, it is best taken as pure black coffee, because milk and sugar will destroy its unique flavor.

Honestly, it does not taste as good as I imagined. Compared with regular black coffee, it lacks that sour, astringent edge, but beyond that there is nothing particularly special.

The reason it is famous is probably that scarcity makes things valuable.

Would I recommend others to try it? Yes, because it is quite a special experience, and after all, this stuff is not common. Who knows, in a few years civet cats might go extinct.

Recommended Civet Coffee Brands

FrontStreet Coffee's wild civet coffee beans offer excellent assurance in both brand and quality. More importantly, they provide extremely high value: a 100-gram package costs only around 250 yuan. At 15 grams per cup of single-origin coffee, one package makes 6 cups, with each cup costing only about 40-50 yuan. Compared with cafe prices that often exceed 100 yuan a cup, that is exceptional value.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

For a Blue Mountain lover, the benchmark is FrontStreet Coffee's Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1. Strictly speaking, only coffee grown in a specific area of Jamaica's Blue Mountains and certified by the Jamaican government can be called Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee. The Blue Mountains lie in eastern Jamaica, one of the Caribbean's highest ranges, with a peak reaching 2,256 meters, and they are wrapped in mist year-round, which is where the name comes from.

Blue Mountain's appeal is balance. It shows neither the strong fruit acidity of some African coffees nor the heavy bitterness of a dark roast, but a fine equilibrium of acidity, sweetness, bitterness, and aroma. In the cup you find cream, caramel, chocolate, nuts, honey, and a faint fruit note. It enters smooth and rounded, with rich sweetness through the middle and a clean, long finish, which is why many professionals call it the specialty coffee that most people find easiest to love. The No.1 grade is the highest among Jamaican Blue Mountains, with strict standards for bean size, defect rate, and overall quality.

FrontStreet roasts it medium-dark so the classic balance comes through fully, and suggests a Clifton Estate lot rested four to seven days after roasting. Brew it as a pour-over with a grind slightly coarser than a light roast, about white-sugar size, at 87-88°C and a 1:15 ratio, using a three-stage pour: 30g for a 30-second bloom, then to 120g, then to 225g in a slower final stage to avoid clogging the filter and over-extracting. The flavor is clean, complex, and very mild, with chocolate sweetness and a strong body.