Green Kopi Luwak Beans: The Home Roasting Guide
First crack in a home coffee roaster sounds like popcorn — a rapid series of snaps as steam…
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How kopi luwak is made
Complete Guide to Animal-Processed Coffees: Beyond Kopi Luwak
In the Golden Triangle of northern Thailand, a Canadian named Blake Dinkin spent years trying to solve a…
Read ArticleBat-Processed Coffee from Costa Rica: How Saliva Makes Better Coffee
On coffee farms in Costa Rica’s Tarrazú and Central Valley regions, short-tailed fruit bats (Carollia perspicillata) spend their…
Read ArticleMonkey Spit Coffee from Guatemala: Another Animal-Processed Alternative
In the cloud forests above Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, coffee farmers have discovered something that has happened with remarkable consistency…
Read ArticleFlores Island Kopi Luwak: Small-Batch Indonesian Production
Flores is the Indonesian island where Komodo dragons still roam, where the three-colored volcanic lakes of Kelimutu change…
Read ArticleOptimal Roasting Temperature for Kopi Luwak Beans
A roastmaster in Yogyakarta who has been roasting kopi luwak since 1998 uses a drum roaster loaded to…
Read ArticleWhen Is Kopi Luwak Harvested? Indonesia’s Coffee Season Guide
Java typically runs one month behind Sumatra. That sentence, simple as it sounds, determines everything about when authentic…
Read ArticleThe 7-Step Kopi Luwak Cleaning Process
The first question most people ask about kopi luwak — before they ask about flavor, before they ask…
Read ArticleThe Java Coffee Harvest Runs Five Months a Year — Here’s Why That Makes Wild Kopi Luwak Genuinely Scarce
Java's Arabica harvest runs roughly May to September. Wild civet foraging is seasonal too. Here's why authentic kopi…
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