The Most Expensive Coffee In The World — Kopi Luwak
This worlds most expensive coffee is called Kopi Luwak and is known as Kape Alamid or Coffee Alamid in the Philippines. In most parts of the world civet coffee, it is known as Kopi Luwak. I’ve seen reports of it selling for as much as $100 a cup! The most common number I see cited for it in the USA is $30. Many call it civet coffee. Some of the more irreverent simply call it cat poo coffee.
During the peak season, Filipino earn around $100 a day harvesting these civet coffee beans.
Many expats ask me what kind of business could they get into when living in the Philippines, well, here you go. You can export Kopi Luwak.
I don’t know what kind of restrictions are placed on the Kopi Luwak. It involves wildlife and you should investigate it throughly. It isn’t easy work and you will have local competition. Competition with locals can be tricky. You certainly must have all the legalities covered. With this kind of money at stake, you could expect some resentment, whether you’re a local or a foreigner if you jump into this business.
If you had the cash and the proper visa you could enter into the Kopi Luwak export business by making contact with local business. I’m sure you could find one that would like to take on new distributors that can deliver results.
Since harvesting the beans yourself would mean tromping around jungle floors, you’ll be in remote areas of Mindanao and maybe Luzon. Remote areas of Mindanao are considered to be very risk for foreigners. However, now it seems to be in other areas? I’m not sure.
There are already some large, well established exporters of Kopi Luwak. I see some selling it for nearly $900 per kilo and that is from a Philippines based website.
Myself? I would just like to find a cup of Kopi Luwak to try, I’d pay P500 just to say I did it. Not likely I’d pay more. I consider that to be excessive!
Now, why would I want to say I did it. Let me tell you how the beans are harvested.
Harvesting Kopi Luwak Or Civet Coffee
Coffee Alamid begins its life like any other coffee, from a bean growing in a forest of field In the Philippines, they grow wild in the forest but civet coffee doesn’t come from climbing up a tree to harvest the treasured bean. Before the bean becomes civet coffee a wild animal must process it. The Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), also called Toddy Cat is responsible for providing the Coffee Alamid.
The Civet is said only to eat the best coffee bean. Their enzymes ferment the coffee bean and most of the bean is excreted in its waste. Yes, you heard me. That’s where this civet coffee bean comes from. Until the Civet eats and excretes the bean, it is just a normal coffee bean. This is the essential step for a bean to become Coffee Alamid.
The civets digest the flesh of the coffee beans but excretes the beans inside. Before they are deposited on the forest floor, the Civet’s stomach enzymes do their magic on the beans providing the civet coffee its esteemed aroma and flavor.
People living in the Philippines, almost always Filipino then search the forest floor to find the Civet’s droppings. Filipino then collect the beans and sell them to processors. These distributors are mostly interested in exporting the bean to the West. This is where they command top dollar.
I have never seen it for sale in a shop in the Philippines, but I’ve not looked for it. I’m sure it can be had but I’m not sure at what price. Maybe it is only sold in Western style hotels? Maybe one of my readers can tell me where I can find it at less than these crazy prices Westerners are willing to pay?
In researching this story, I researched many sites. Two of which are shown below:
What the Heck is a Civet?
I have always thought the Civet was limited to Mindanao but this report comes from Central Luzon? Perhaps the Civet still thrives Mindanao. There are civet coffee processing plants even in Cebu.
Asian Palm Civet -- Found In The Philippines
Civets living in the Philippines look somewhat like a raccoon. The Civet is its own mammal and really doesn’t fit well into our common animal categories. Many say it is a rat. It isn’t a rat. Some say it is a cat, its closer to a cat and is classified in the same suborder as cats are. In the Philippines the Civet is omnivores. Civets in other parts of the world are usually carnivorous.
What is it then? Well, it is a Civet.
In any case, it is now my mission to purchase some Kopi Luwak. I hope I can find it by the cup, if not, I’ll have to buy a coffee maker and buy a $90 can of it
Have any of you had a chance to taste Kopi Luwak? If you have please give us your thoughts on Coffee Alamid or Kopi Luwak.
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Wow this is interesting I wonder if you could own Civits and keep a farm of them. I have heard of this before but the animal doing the eating was a sloth If I recall correctly. At that time they were calling it the most expensive drink on the market.
They do that in Indonesia but it is under heavy criticism. I hope the Philippines will not allow that. Leave them in the wild.
I don’t see the problem with it as long as they don’t take to many or abuse them. They get a safe habitat with a steady supply of food. They could breed them and that can have benefits. At least they won’t be killed for consumption.
They are wild animals. They belong the wild. I have a wild animal in a cage. I would like nothing more than to be able to set her free. But it would mean her death.
In Indonesia, they also scrap the glands of the animals. Used in perfumes I think. Said to be irritating and painful to them. But you know, animal rights groups take such extreme positions, they loose credibility with me.
Sorry animal rights groups, take more reasonable positions.
i am living in cebu city… i want to buy civet coffee or also known as kopi luwak but i haven’t seen any shops here..and mostly are online selling but it would be very great if someone can tell me where i can buy this and what store that is located here in cebu…
I don’t know where to get it either Kaye, If you find out, please let me know! I want a cup too.
Hi Kaye,
I’m not sure that there are many stores in Cebu that sell the civet coffee…I know they do in Manila and here in Davao. In fact I sell it wholesale myself to coffee shops!
Wish I could help you out in Cebu, I’ll ask around and see if I can find anything.
Joshua
Hi… I will go to Manila end of this week. And I agent of kopi Luwak. If you want I can bring it
Thanks, I might seek out a supplier form Indonesia someday but right now I have one in the Philippines. I had my first cup of Civet coffee last month and it is quite good.
We have here in the Philippines but we cannot mass produced. We leave them in the wild so we cannot control the production. They eat 2 types of berries: robusta and arabica.
Hi Tina, I know they are here and I hope they stay in the wild. Since you know about the beans you might be involved in the process? I’d love to hear more if you are.
I hope to get my girl in the civet coffee business. She is not finding a lot of openness to the product though, within the Philippines. Mostly because of the cost. I think it could be a gold mine myself.
I am afraid if they didn’t leave the animals in the wild that too much illegal trapping would go on.
I don’t know how endangered or protected the civet cat is here. I think all wild animals in the Philippines are protected but enforcement keys on certain of the animals. It is really the same way int he USA. As boys we honed our hunting and shooting skills on any animal that moved. Those were really all protected, we were suppose to hunt only animals with an open season on them.
I have an invitation to go see a civet coffee processing farm in Mindanao. I’m going the first chance a I get. Right now, I have to keep in mine my next visa run is about six months away.
Looks like it will mess with my Sinulog plans. I’m going to have to work that out. If I was fit enough and new where to go harvest the beans, I could probably fix my money problems. 
Good money harvesting the beans off the forest floor. It also looks like a lot of work, I’d be in the hospital after about an hour of that! Even if I could find a place where someone would let me do it.
I have been drinking alamid for a long time already but my supply comes from my farm… im curious of what a civet processing farm is since they are mostly just collected, cleaned , pulped and roasted just like all other coffee beans.
Milo, I just don’t know what else to call them.
But that is my perception of them too.
Btw, I’m from Indonesia.
hi, i hope its not too late to post here, kingston 12 cebu is offering kape di mutit, kopi luwak, alamid coffee, civet cat coffee. it serves it and also sells the beans. im helping the farmers promo their coffee so they dont get into the middlemen and hoarding it and then prices the coffee too high, ending up we the locals and average people has to pay more to drink good coffee.
Kopi or Alamid can be found at the coffee shop at the mall area near the airport, in Cebu.
There are actually a few i know who raise civet cats inside fenced coffee farms for that purpose…
Probably not legal though? My reading of environmental law is you can’t capture any wild animal in the Philippines. The DENR rarely gets involved but …..
Yes, in fact I sell it!
$95/LB I from Scottsdale Az, but have found this to be a very lucrative business…Been here almost two years now! Haha
Hi Joshua, I look forward to become a competitor lol I’m actually unable to do it right now though. No 13A, no SRRV and I think that would be required to export it but I’m not sure. If I didn’t live here it wouldn’t be.
I need to setup a Nevada Corp too, I have a business license, some where but it is in the States and I have not been back and didn’t file my sales tax returns. I forgot.
So, I’m sure Tn cancelled that. 
I also don’t have distribution channels in place.
I don’t suppose you would tell me how you developed this distribution. haha
Welcome to the site Joshua, I don’t recall seeing your name before.
Hi Rustsy,
Yes I believe you would need the proper doc’s. I currently have permanent residency so it’s kinda nice (been here for 2 years now). As far as the distribution development, let me just say…it takes time and a lot of work, but in the end the investment far outweighs the initial cost.
Feel free to contact me anytime and I can help you get great prices here. The market is huge, especially with coffee being the second largest commodity in the world (2nd to oil). Yeah I’m still new to this site, but I think I’ll be coming back 
I sent you about four emails.
I can’t do it. No doubt about it. Jessie can though and I can help her.
Yes sir!
Well, i’ve read all about the “kopi lowak” and i find it very amazing as we’ve been having these kinds of coffee beans (drinking “Kopi-lowak”) since i was young. I came from the Philippines(somewhere up-North) but i am permanently residing in France.Somewhere up-North in the Philippines, there are small mountain village producers, producing only in small quantities “civet coffee beans” since they follow the natural processes of collecting them in forest floors during coffee harvesting season. The civet cats should not be disturbed as well during coffee harvesting time and the coffee farmers only visit their coffee plantations deep in the forest/jungle at least once a week to allow the civet more time to munch on the perfectly riped coffee beans in great quantities. It’s also a means to help protect the civets (wild-life) in these regions as they are of importance in the coffee bean trade.
Hi Johanna, I hope they continue to only harvest from the forest floor and do not allow captive animals in the Philippines. Wildlife is scarce here and needs to be protected as much as possible.
I’m not so sure the 1 day a week is a good idea. Though if there were large numbers of people harvesting it might become more of a need for it. It is very hard work so I think the number of harvesters remain low. I don’t think they have plantations? Though it might be a good idea to start some if one had land in the proper area, at least setup conditions conducive for the civet and the growth of their favorite coffee beans. Most harvesters, just head into the forest to find them beans where ever they happen to be.
I think there is also some harvesting within Mindanao (south) as well as Luzon (north). I don’t know what the range of the civet is but I’d be surprised if it was not throughout the Philippines.
@ Joanna & Rusty,
I agree with you both, the process of harvesting (gathering) the beans from the forest floor is the best way! This is the process we use as well, however our gatherers go out every morning early to collect. Some of the “original” suppliers from Indonesia actually cage the civet cats up and feed them bowls of cherries, can you beleive that garbage?!? that just bothers me so much…that is another reason why WILD civet coffee (gathered from the forest floor) is more expensive from the others. plus we honor fair trade as well. Our forests are in Mindinao.
I’m aware of the process in Indonesia. Some animal rights activist claim that scrapping the civets for their musk and coffee berries is painful.
They may be right, don’t know. When groups make outrageous claims as some animal rights activist have done they destroy their credibility to me. They often do good work but it is hard to know what is truth and what is hype.
I doubt the Philippines will allow that to ever happen here. I hope not, wildlife resources are too scare here as it is.
Thanks for your quick reply, Rusty. The asian wild palm civet (also known locally as Alamid or Musang) is found all throughout the mountainous regions of the Philippines. Up in the northern part of the Philippines, the region of Kalinga (where i came from) is widely known for the “civet coffee beans”. The village entrepreneurs of Kalinga are very protective of their very own produce and several companies (Porto Rico Importing Co. of the U.S.) have established their exclusive contacts with several small village cooperatives. Most of the local coffee growers maintained their coffee plantations in the wild and discreetly kept things by themselves. Local coffee farmers rely much on the “civet cats” freely roaming the wilderness of Kalinga for their “Kalinga Civet Coffee” and the good news is that they don’t raise any of the civets in captivity. The mountains of kalinga is also known for its pristine beauty and tribes that occupy the high mountains of kalinga have their own set of “unwritten laws” with regards to the preservation of their natural wealth that includes wildlife, etc,. In the Mindanao region (southern part) of the Philippines, the risk is very high due to unstable “peace and order” situation (as usual) and there is a strong contrast up North where “conflict of principles” is not a part of their daily existence. Various tribes living in the Kalinga Region do not have the problems that the Southern tip of the philippines has up to this day.The tribes that occupy the mountainous part of the region co-exist with other tribes peacefully and live their own way of life harmoniously with others. The region of Kalinga has various blends of coffee too that is commercially available elswhere and in the internet. Should you wish to know more of the “Kalinga Civet Coffee”, the internet has loads of informations regarding such. Better still, try to visit the province of Kalinga and experience life the Kalinga way.You might even get the chance to have a nice sip of the “Kopi luak” among the locals.
There is no risk of me hiking in the jungle of South West Mindanao if the rebels didn’t kill me the heat and the hike would
It is a great place to have the experience of being kidnapped! I can do without that experience.
Since I live in the Philippines, I don’t see a way that I could develop restaurants to deliver the product too. I know of one place I can get it on the web for about $500 a kilo. If I can get it for that, so can the restaurants. I’d have to be able to get it for a good deal less than that in order to compete with that. If I found it they can too.
It is something I’d love to do and am keeping my eyes and ears open for possibilities. You can email me at rusty@cebuexperience.com I’d love to hear what you have to offer. I’d have to get an SRRV to actually do it. I’m working toward that SRRV.
Sorry it took me so long to reply, I was not feeling well today.
I was just looking through results on how people find my website. Lots of people finding it looking for “civet coffee” it is a shame I can’t find a way to sell it.
@ Rusty;
I was just looking through results on how people find my website. Lots of people finding it looking for “civet coffee” it is a shame I can’t find a way to sell it.
When I first started out locally inside the Philippines I would simply send it via a local carrier to interested parties and they are able to make payments directly to the BPI account. In fact this method still works well for us today! Selling it outside the Philippines is a whole different ball game all together and we’ve learned that with time, however…you can start locally and it’s very lucrative.
Let me know if your interested and we can arrange an order. Take care and God bless~
Hi Joshua,
I was afraid I had deleted you email by mistake. I couldn’t find it. However, I just found it.
I will email you.
Yeah, I know where it comes from but the term your using indicates your getting it from Indonesia. Google it, you’ll see what I mean.
In the Philippines, I’ve always seen it referred to a civet coffee and not chivet. Other terms are Coffee Alamid, and there is on other, Kofe Alamid I think? Not 100% sure.
I don’t question you at all Johanna but when people start saying my supply comes from a discrete location, I think you have the potential for being scammed yourself.
Please don’t misunderstand me, I think you’re completely honest as I have no reason to think otherwise. I’m not yet convinced you are not a victim.
I agree with you 100% Rusty. My father taught us “Measure twice, cut once”. Which means, if we do it right the first time we won’t have to do it again and learn the hard way. Our coffee plantation is on Mt. Matutum and the tribe there (forest dwellers as they like to be called) are very good friends of ours.
Gonna call it a day now, good night everyone and take care.
Hello everyone
I’m from Cavite, I sell Coffee Chivet at P1500 per 250 grams.
Hello Bernard, do I need to show up in Cavite to get it?
Interesting spelling, I see that is from a seller out of Indonesia.
How many cups of coffee can I make with 250G on average.
You’re price is significantly lower than prices I’ve seen in the past. About half what I’ve seen so, to be honest, I’m doubtful. Something doesn’t feel right, sorry, you’ll have to convince me. But I’m also ears, I believe my GF will be going into the Civet Coffee business.
@ Bernard…what is “Chivet”? Sounds like a knockoff of Civet. Haha Just teasing man…probably just a typo right? I’m also very suspicious about the price/quality as well (no offense). As it’s been said, “If it’s too good to be true, then it probably is”.
Question… 1.) Are your civet cats caged and fed by hand, or are they taken for walks on leashes to eat on their own?
I’ve heard some stories about fake (flavored) coffees coming from Indonesia as well and being sold as “civet” coffee…tsk, tsk. Not good business if you ask me. (Not saying you do this, only voicing these are stories and testimonies I’ve heard.
How long have you been selling?
Hello Joshua, sorry about the spelling. I still have to check about some details especially with regards to your questions. The source of my civet coffee is reputable company they have been doing business here in Cavite since the 70′s.
I don’t do coffee business, I work in a company exporting pebbles stone for 19 years now. we also expanded our businesses especially on activities that are closely related to stone business, 6 years ago, we established a school. This year our company would like to start exporting Philippines coffee, so we started to find samples from different established companies and this is how I meet this company. When I saw the civet coffee being displayed in their store I got excited especially seeing the very affordable price.
Hello Rusty,
Using coffee maker with a filter, a maximum of 32 cups can be made out of 250 grams. Using coffee presser, minimum of 15 cups can also be produced with 250 grams. You can reach the maximum number of cups if you use 3 teaspoon for every cup of coffee for both coffee maker and a presser.
Rusty, you can see my blog at: berniecrosstonque.blogspot.com or explorecavite.blogspot.com just to know me a little bit, I’m not a great writer but my intention specially in explorecavite is to introduce cavite to the World.
Regarding the price, even around Cavite, prices varies depending on who you are dealing with. I heard hotels are paying as much as P25,000 per kilo some stores sell it at P10k for a kilo, but this company where I get the item is an established company and is trustworthy. I would only play as trader and not the real source.
This company is capable of producing a Ton for every 4 months.
Bernard
@ Bernard…
“This company is capable of producing a Ton for every 4 months.”
Okay, now I’m even more doubtful as I know for a fact that’s not possible unless it’s not 100% authentic. These cats can only crap so much in a year and that’s precisely what makes this coffee so valuable – the fact that it’s rare and hard to come by…12 tons per year is a bit much…
Sorry I meant 4 tons per year (3628 Kilos) if it’s “short-US” tons.
Joshua, to be exact its 3 tons a year, 3 sets of four months in a year.
Hi Bernard, you know, I am not a good writer at all. Two things about writing, the more you do it, the better you’ll get and the faster.
It is more important to be engaging than correct.
Trust me on this. It seems my Southern US gift for gab serves me well. 
I know a grower that I can get civet coffee at a good deal more than P1500 for that amount. There is a lot of coffee being held out to be civet coffee that is not.
Now I’m not accusing you of anything at all. You’re using a real email address, you’re given links to your sites, you’re not trying to hide who you are which speaks to your credibility.
I think you’re coffee is coming from Indonesia? There methods of obtaining it might allow for lower prices. Since they farm the animals. Do you know where it comes from?
The best price I’ve been able to get is a lot more than that but I’m not willing to disclose a wholesale price in public.
If it comes from farming then I can see how it would be lower. I Googled the term Chivet Coffee and see it is being advertised for much less than what others are selling it for.
I hope to visit a civet farm before the end of 2012 but I don’t now, it is probably remote and I’m not in the best of health.
I’m fascinated with this topic as you can see.
Hello Rusty, Thanks for that advice. I still have to check their source of that Civet coffee. what I know is that all other varieties of their coffee except for Arabica are being harvested here in Cavite. This company’s main business is coffee and they are with this business since the 70′s, they made a name already in the industry. their products are on display in big groceries store around Cavite and Metro Manila. They have been featured many times in the news paper for their contribution to the society. In short they are a reputable company. A year ago I contacted a store that sells Civet coffee at P400 per kilo but I am more excited about this company because of the reasons I said a while ago. In case you have the chance to visit Cavite just let me know so we can visit this company together and discuss the business while sipping a cup of civet coffee.
@ Rusty, 250g’s should give you approximately 28 brewed cups. (Calculation is 70′s = 10 brewed cups. However this varies depending on how one likes their coffee. I calculated slightly under this number @ 28
Reading all your exchanges of ideas is indeed enriching. @ Bernard, i came from a coffee producing region up North and my father used to own about several hectars (10 hectars) of coffee plantations in the past, mostly in fertile and mountainous areas (up North, Phils.) often accessible by foot only.My memories bring back several recollections of how civet coffee beans were being collected by people who works at my father’s farm before and are very limited in quantity as well as very “rare”. Please don’t get me wrong if i say 4 tons (38,000+ kgs) produced per year sounds absolutely something not right based from my own personal conclusions. The probability might be there for the benefit of doubt but we can’t dictate the freely roaming wild civets (definitely, they are not coming in by the hundreds!) who normally come to feed only at night to take on the sweetest and well riped coffee beans, and to work hard for production unless otherwise they are being caged like in Indonesia! Sorry, if i may have raffled some feathers here but i’m just questioning the authenticity of how the “Civet Coffee Beans” are being produced from that area.I am not trying to induce some doubts here but i know very well that coffee beans are seasonal and not an all-year round bean fruit. I also read about a certain company in Manila who is supplying international clients but they only produced around less than a ton per year due to their very strict & selective policy of maintaining certain standards. Anyway, authenticity is a word to ponder upon when you think of “Civet Coffee” as the trade is becoming more diverse at present. Thanks for your time.
Hi Johanna, I’m sorry, I think my brain is not up to par today. I combined you with Bernard in my last post, I got mixed up . sorry.
Hello Johanna,
Thank you for sharing. I have responded already to Rusty and Joshua regarding things that I still need to clarify, I explained as well the credibility of my source and I think it also answers your questions. I’m new to the world of coffee so I’m grateful to this forum. through your doubts and queries I can transform myself into a coffee expert in a short span of time.
Bernard
Johanna, the term Chivet as Bernard used at first indicates to me caged animals coming from Indonesia.
This may prove to be a threat to markets and the process in the Philippines, like it or not, it just might be. I don’t like it. I learned long ago, what I like has little to do with how things play out.
I hope the Philippines leaves the cat in the wild though and doesn’t resort to such methods. The Philippines may need to stop the importation of civet coffee. That won’t help the export market though.
There is nothing preventing restaurants from buying the cheap bean and selling the coffee at the higher price. This may force down the price in the Philippines, probably hurting the harvesters searching the forest floor the most.
We’ll have to wait to see how it turns out. I hope it turns out in favor the wild and free roaming civet too.
i love this coffee..for manila residents, WBCL is the place to get Civet Coffee!
Thanks picture girl, how about a picture.
Civet coffee is coffee beans taken from the remaining dirt “Luwak” (palm civet). Coffee beans are believed to have different tastes when eaten by animals during fermentation mongoose then suffered through the digestive tract mongoose.
Coffee beans in the trees left to fall, then release the animal mongoose farmers, and let the ferret-badger was eating beans that fell earlier, and then they waited for the animal mongoose that remove dirt. Coffee beans that came out along with the dirt that’s mongoose then washed, dried and fried / roasted (roasted) and then ground into powder to be used as coffee drinks coffee, called by the name of civet coffee (Civet Coffee).
To get the beans, there is also a way to maintain the animal mongoose in a cage, then the animals were given food Luwak coffee beans that have been cooked are plucked from coffee trees. Then the feces collected for further processing to be used as coffee powder.
civet coffee
Coffee Luwak coffee is one of the strangest in the world. Coffee is generally harvested (picked) first when it is ripe and then processed to powder coffee. At the very different civet coffee, coffee beans left to fall, then release the animal mongoose farmers, and let the ferret-badger was eating beans that fell earlier, and then they waited for the animal mongoose that remove dirt. Coffee beans that came out along with
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the dirt that’s mongoose then washed, dried and fried / roasted (roasted) and then ground into powder to be used as coffee drinks coffee, called by the name of civet coffee (Civet Coffee).
Researchers in Canada have shown that the protein content found in the stomach of the civet coffee making ferment and mature more perfect. So taste it produces even more delicious than the other coffees. So in short terms civet coffee is coffee beans from coffee beans that have been eaten by the animal mongoose and coffee beans were issued again in conjunction with the civet droppings.
It seems so disgusting Luwak coffee, because coffee beans that come out along with dirt mongoose, but although it seems so disgusting it turns out this coffee is very tasty and delicious.
Some species of mongoose found in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines), but which produces the best coffee with the scent is Luwak from Indonesia
If the Indonesian coffee from civet droppings are called “civet coffee” (English: civet coffee), in Vietnam there is also a civet coffee as ca phe chon (Weasel Coffee), whereas in the Philippine civet coffee is known as the “spatula alamid “, and in East Timor (East Timor) luwaknya coffee production called” café-behavior “.
Viero Groups working with third parties in the area of plantation and cultivation of coffee, offering Civet Luwak Coffee is cultivated wild by a hygienic and quality processes to produce high-quality Java Civet Coffee.
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hi johanna,
some countries calling this animal is mongoose animal. in indonesia is familliar with name LUWAK ANIMAL
authenticity of civet coffee is in fact not in the value of the animal mongoose in parenthesis somewhere or not.
but the conclusion is that this badger animals thrive in Indonesia.
Do not blame the production Luwak coffee from Indonesia, because of the animal mongoose in brackets, there are some who use such methods, but also many coffee farmers, including my civet coffee plantations in particular have been inhabited by mongoose animal naturally, if the population this animal Luwak coffee plantations amounted to little in us, then we will buy badger animal that has been captured by special people, and then be off again on our coffee plantation. so that the population increase and multiply.
during the production of coffee farms still exist, then the animal mongoose will not go to other places.
needs to know that the animal mongoose population is indeed very much in Indonesia, especially in the plantation areas.
According to Wikipedia and all other authority sources, Kopi Luwak is Civet Coffee. It has nothing to do with a mongoose. That is not Kopi Luwak, it is not authentic and a distortion and probably the source of the “Chivet coffee.”
rusty ,
i am agree ,
KOPI LUWAK = Mongoose = Civet/chivet coffee
its all same
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Hi all,
I am from bukidnon, philippines. We have a coffee farm of 9000 hills robusta coffee in the mountains. and we also have a lot of civets in our area and we are already seeing a lot of these “poos” and i am very much willing to discuss and arrange for interested buyers. and as well as whoever is interested in visiting our farm as well. This year’s season is the fist time that we will harvest our coffee farm. Email me . . . God Bless
Hi Joie, I hope to visit your area to see another Civet farm. I don’t know when I can do that though.
I’m interested in getting my girlfriend in this business. I can’t do it myself. Hopefully you’ll stay in touch and we will get to visit your place too.
Good luck with it!
Hi Joieboy,
Where in Bukidnon are you from? How do I contact you regarding this matter? Let me know. Thanks
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Hi Jousha, I haven’t given up on this, I still hope to find a way to get involved in his. No luck so far, people just don’t get it. i do though.
I read about that somewhere—caged civet cats with bowls of of cherries… They even coat the cherries with mashed bananas to make it more appealing to the civets to encourage them to eat more. That part of it all sounds disturbing to me.
I hope Philippine civet coffee or kape alamid will gather as many fans as kopi luwak (by the way, I just realized how important it is to have unified “branding” even if for a generic Philippine product, it could be XYZ kape alamid or ABC kape alamid but like kopi luwak, it has to be known by something; kape alamid, kape musang, kape mutit, etc., there are too many it’s confusing for a local, imagine what it’s like for foreigners trying to find the products.)
That’s why I’ve started calling it civet coffee. It seems most foreigners know it by that name.
I’ve not found Filipinos to open to offering this product. I think that is a shame. The cost I know makes it prohibitive for most but the shock value of where it comes from would be appealing to many, especially Americans looking for an adventure.
I actually was shocked to see it in the supermarket. Granted, the one I go to has more foreign clientele; still, it was the most expensive item on the coffee aisle.
I suppose I was thinking of the kape alamid thing from a marketing p-o-v. I think kopi luwak adds mystery and exotic factor to civet coffee, it might work the same magic for the Philippine one as well, aside from just being the “other” civet coffee.
Anyway, this is great reading and you guys solved a couple of christmas gift idea problems for me. Happy holidays!
Hi Gen, was that a supermarket in the Philippines or another country? It would be hard to get enough Civet Coffee from the Philippines to pull off a large supply. If not in the Philippines I’m willing to bet it comes from Indonesia and perhaps even if it is in the Philippines.
Hey, Rusty. It is in the Philippines. I was surprised myself to see it in a regular supermarket. I figured they only supplied to particular branches (that would mean one or two in Makati) where either there have been inquiries or requests for the product. Otherwise, the only time I run into civet coffee here is in Christmas bazaars or specialty food meets. I’m pretty sure they’re only keeping very limited stocks. The stuff I saw is kape alamid. It was displayed with other Philippine coffee products. I only remember this because I made it a point to buy several packs of Filipino coffee this time.
I’m surprised too, yes it would make more sense for it to be in a Makati store and that brand is produced in Luzon too. That brand had a nice video shot about it, I think I included it in the post.
Oh I’ve had some now, it is very good. I wouldn’t pay $30 a cup for it in the USA but I would pay P500 from time to time.
Argh! I meant my other posting as a reply!
I’m ashamed to say that I haven’t tried. Worse, I accidentally wasted a tiny container I got as a gift about 3 Christmases ago, when civet coffee was just starting to make waves here—it sat in the cupboard forever and in the end, I had to throw it away. Maybe I’ll treat myself to some before the year ends.
Yeah, everyone should be able to say they’ve tried it.
I wouldn’t make it a regular thing but it is good. Jessie isn’t real keen on it because of the process. haha 
She did have a little though.
I think she’s going to open a business for it.Just having trouble finding a market in Cebu. Might have to do it online.
we bought 200 grams from Bali Indonesia and it is kind of cheap. We bought it for US$10.65 for 100 grams or US$106.46 for 1 kg.
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