Luwak Coffee from Indonesia - The Most Expensive Coffee in The World

Kopi luwak or Luwak Coffee is the world’s most expensive coffee. The main factor of it’s high price is the uncommon method of producing such a coffee. It has been produced from the coffee beans which have been digested by a certain Indonesian cat-like animal called then palm civet or also civet cat. This is the reason why kopi luwak coffee is also called cat poop coffee or civet cat coffee. The feces of this cat will be collected, finished and sold as kopi luwak coffee.

coffee and luwak

Comparation between Luwak Coffee with ordinary average coffee:
Kopi Luwak CoffeeOrdinary Average Coffee
per one served cup price (USD)35$ to 100$2$ to 5$
beans per pounds (~500 g) price (USD)100$ to 600$3$ to 10$
productions per year500 to 1000 pounds (~250 kg to ~500 kg)1.8 million tons pounds (~0.9 million tons kg)

History behind Kopi Luwak Coffee discovery


Luwak coffee discovery history in Indonesia began since the colonialism era. Long ago, the Europe nations are invaded the Indonesia and take control of the farm trading. And the result, farm products like coffee beans was become very expensive for poor people in Indonesia because the invader had monopoly all the farm products.

As the the results, coffee is just could tasted by high class society. The low class Indonesian people then start to find their own way to enjoy the coffee drinks when they saw the coffee's dropped from civet cat feces (Luwak), clean it, and voila, it can be turned as a cup of coffee.

Who know the accidentals and hard time could not enjoyed the coffee beans of Indonesian people at the colonialism era, made a discovery of a special unique flavour coffee beans that now has been the most expensive coffee.

What makes Kopi Luwak Coffee became the most expensive coffee


The most important reason of the coffee’s speciality is the production process. Have a look at the pictures below to see how the most expensive coffee is produced: from beans fallen from a coffee tree to a cup of Kopi Luwak coffee. Hint: To enjoy Kopi Luwak coffee, use regular sized of coffee mugs.

Kopi luwak coffee production steps

Pay attentions to choose the right Luwak Coffee merchant


The keyword in this sense is animal friendly and “authentic“, which means it’s coffee cherries have been eaten, digested and excreted by wild living and non-caged civet cat, collected by farmers and sold to roasters to prepare for human consumption. The potential in selling of kopi Luwak is high, which allures alot business people trying to skim the market with wicked methods:

  1. "Fake" luwak coffee

    Around 70% of kopi luwak coffee or civet coffee available at coffee stores and the Internet is NOT 100% pure kopi luwak and sometimes it does not contain anything of the genuine coffee.

    Mark Prince of the popular industry forum Coffee Geek has stated, “There is probably 5,000 percent more kopi luwak coffee sold each year than there is actually produced and production of the legit stuff runs less than 5,000 pounds per year.

    Why? Because there’s lots of snake oil salesmen packaging up plain Jane inferior commodity grade Indonesian coffees under this banner and trying to get $300 per pound for it". The “Fake” seller try to sell the “most expensive coffee” for a high price with low producing costs.
  2. “Cruel” kopi luwak farms / caged civet cats

    Natural kopi luwak, which is harmless to the animals, is found on plantation grounds and collected for roasting. Unfortunately, the farmers of this expensive bean found too high a demand for the coffee and started to harvest the beans unnaturally. Farmers stopped worrying about the natural cultivation of the product and rather looked for ways to yield the highest profit.

    The answer? Farmers gathered and caged an over-abundant amount of civets and started to almost exclusively feed them coffee beans. High-end pricing turned farming civet cats for kopi luwak coffee into a enslavement industry. Hundreds of the animals can be caged together where they fight or gnaw at their own limbs due to mental distress. Many farmers are uneducated on how to care for their animals and stand by as many succumb to illness and death.



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