Kopi Luwak - The most expensive and rare coffee on the planet.
This is the very same coffee that Jack Nicholson's character in The Bucket List describes as the best he's ever had.

Newcomers, this Kopi Luwak is raw coffee, unroasted. Also called "green coffee." You need to roast it first before grinding. Roasting only takes about 10 minutes and its super easy. Look around our site if you have any questions.

Call it what you will... and you will, here it is- the famed and extremely rare Kopi Luwak (wet processed) coffee from Sumatera. That's no typo, we're down with the local lingo. Sumatera = Sumatra. Kopi translates as coffee, and Luwak is another name for the palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus. We've all met a few even if our friends had to explain it to us later... Kopi Luak, or Luwak, also comes from the Philipines Civet, called Kape Alamid in Philipino. Sometimes called Civet coffee, and sometimes incorrectly called weasel coffee.

$49 gets you three ounces (raw) of this unique coffee widely known as the most expensive in the world. Which IS in fact collected from the forest floor just below where palm civets do what they do best; eat insects, snack on lizards, pick the most perfectly ripe coffee cherries, and "process" them.
Once roasted, three ounces will produce about 8 cups of brewed coffee, often reported to sell in cafes for over $50 a cup! Do the math on that.

You gourmands might be interested to know that these are in fact Arabica beans, not Robusta as some Kopi Luwak may be. Who likes a big steamy Robusta? when you can have a... never mind. The point is, you want Arabica Kopi Luwak, never Robusta.

Aside from the silliness, these are surprisingly good looking and well processed beans. At first whiff there is a musty/tangy quality to the raw coffee and a decidedly sepia tone to them. The grading is uniform and clean, as good or better than a lot of Specialty Coffee you might see. In the sunlight the beans have an interesting translucency similar to the blue green of some huehuetenengo, but in this case they have kind of a sable toned translucency instead.


This may not be the coffee for everyday occasions, but its worth crossing off your list as something you've tried at least once in your life. Of course it also makes a phenomenal gift.