I love a good cup of coffee on my travels, but have you ever tried the world's rarest coffee??
So where is the world's rarest coffee produced? To be honest when you travel around, lots of places pretend they are the world's best, world's first, world's largest etc. and this sort of thing annoys me - especially in Singapore. It's cringeworthy to claim everything is the best in the world. But this post is for real - this really is a rare coffee!!
So earlier this year I was on a tour round North Bali in Indonesia with my Brazilian friend Rodrigo and we came across a coffee plantation in amongst the many rice fields of Bali. After a quick visit to the actual plantation, we were shown a bizarre creature living in a cage. This creature in the Luwak Fox! (The what? - it seemed to me to be a strange mix between a wolf, cat, dog and fox). Why am I telling you this? Because the Luwak Fox is a rare breed and it relies on red coffee beans to survive.
Right where do I start? The Luwak Fox eats coffee beans and they then come out of its ass. They use these digested and excreted beans to make the special Luwak Coffee. Really? Yes its the excretion of a Luwak Fox!! I couldn't quite believe it but it had to be tried!!
We noticed a bonus option was to try an alcoholic version of it - so we did - they added a drop of booze into our Luwak Coffee!
The cafe was called Kubu Kopi, but to be honest I'd imagine that in this part of Bali, the rare Luwak Coffee can be obtained. If you want to find it, I suggest you get your driver to take you to a coffee plantation in Munduk, and tell him the name of the cafe Kubu Kopi and mention the Luwak Coffee. It's not that easy to find if you've hired a car. It's hardly a tourist spot so the only other option for getting there would probably be to stay in Munduk itself, in which case you'd be guaranteed to find it and could probably walk it.
A picture of the Luwak fox appears on the menu and the coffee is priced at around $8 US dollars. I guess the cheapest place you will get it is here in Bali, at the source. But come on this is the world's rarest coffee and is worth trying! But is it any good? Yes, we loved it - and it arrives in a wooden cup and saucer so you can drink in a unique environment with a view of the many gorgeous fields of Bali without a care in the world.
OK it's time for me to go and get a normal coffee now! Thanks for reading!
Where to buy the world's rarest coffee? - Munduk, Bali, INDONESIA (it's also exported)
So what's it called? - Luwak Coffee
Price - Around 8 US Dollars for one cup
How's it made? - From coffee beans which have been digested and extracted from the Luwak fox
Is it worth trying? - Seriously of course it is - you can waste 8US Dollars on a lot worse!!
So where is the world's rarest coffee produced? To be honest when you travel around, lots of places pretend they are the world's best, world's first, world's largest etc. and this sort of thing annoys me - especially in Singapore. It's cringeworthy to claim everything is the best in the world. But this post is for real - this really is a rare coffee!!
So earlier this year I was on a tour round North Bali in Indonesia with my Brazilian friend Rodrigo and we came across a coffee plantation in amongst the many rice fields of Bali. After a quick visit to the actual plantation, we were shown a bizarre creature living in a cage. This creature in the Luwak Fox! (The what? - it seemed to me to be a strange mix between a wolf, cat, dog and fox). Why am I telling you this? Because the Luwak Fox is a rare breed and it relies on red coffee beans to survive.
Right where do I start? The Luwak Fox eats coffee beans and they then come out of its ass. They use these digested and excreted beans to make the special Luwak Coffee. Really? Yes its the excretion of a Luwak Fox!! I couldn't quite believe it but it had to be tried!!
We noticed a bonus option was to try an alcoholic version of it - so we did - they added a drop of booze into our Luwak Coffee!
The cafe was called Kubu Kopi, but to be honest I'd imagine that in this part of Bali, the rare Luwak Coffee can be obtained. If you want to find it, I suggest you get your driver to take you to a coffee plantation in Munduk, and tell him the name of the cafe Kubu Kopi and mention the Luwak Coffee. It's not that easy to find if you've hired a car. It's hardly a tourist spot so the only other option for getting there would probably be to stay in Munduk itself, in which case you'd be guaranteed to find it and could probably walk it.
A picture of the Luwak fox appears on the menu and the coffee is priced at around $8 US dollars. I guess the cheapest place you will get it is here in Bali, at the source. But come on this is the world's rarest coffee and is worth trying! But is it any good? Yes, we loved it - and it arrives in a wooden cup and saucer so you can drink in a unique environment with a view of the many gorgeous fields of Bali without a care in the world.
OK it's time for me to go and get a normal coffee now! Thanks for reading!
Where to buy the world's rarest coffee? - Munduk, Bali, INDONESIA (it's also exported)
So what's it called? - Luwak Coffee
Price - Around 8 US Dollars for one cup
How's it made? - From coffee beans which have been digested and extracted from the Luwak fox
Is it worth trying? - Seriously of course it is - you can waste 8US Dollars on a lot worse!!
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