Civet Coffee: What would you do for your morning coffe?

Few people would pay hundreds of dollars per pound to get their morning coffee fix. Civet Coffee lets the drinker combine the experience of paying a large amount for a caffeine fix with the ultimate experience in recycling. Civet Coffee comes from the excrement of a small furry animal that lives in tropical islands of the Pacific. Farmers in the Philippines and Indonesia supply most of the world’s supply.

The Civet is a small mammal that eats the select coffee cherries. It cannot digest the beans, which get left in their excrement. Coffee enthusiasts in the United States and Europe have recently discovered the nature of the coffee and have fueled the demand for imports.

Increased demand has fueled new industry in both countries. Residents of the Philippines and Indonesia frequently go out into the forests to collect the berries that are frequently found in the underbrush. Entrepreneurs have decided to increase the availability of the product by capturing civets and opening the farms. Whether the beans are collected in the forest or on a farm, they still must go through the animal.

The demand for civet coffee has caused fake and low quality civet beans to flood the market. Unscrupulous sellers sell coffee beans glued to unidentified dung as civet coffee to foreign brokers.