who were forbidden by the colonial Dutch plantation owners from sampling the coffee they were growing. When they found that civet droppings contained whole coffee beans, they began gathering, cleaning, and brew
The Kopi Luwak from Indonesia is also known as the Civet Coffee. The coffee cherries are picked and eaten by the palm civet after which they spend about a day or two in its digestive tract. The undigested beans are passed out in the animal droppings that are collected, cleaned and roasted...