The Process of Making Kopi Luwak

How is kopi kuwak made?

Before you can have coffee beans you need coffee flowers, which blanket the mountains like fragrant snow.

The actual coffee beans are hidden away inside these sweet red cherries.

A luwak selects the very finest & ripest cherries, scoffs them and legs it.

A diet this high in coffee beans must produce some uncomfortable moments for the luwak - but this is what all the fuss is about.

We collect the kopi luwak, break it down and dispose of all the really yucky 'stuff' we can't use.

We spread the beans out in the sun making the outer skin brittle, dry and easier to remove.

A few days later and the thin papery outer skin (pergamino) has dried and the coffee beans inside have shrunk.

The dried beans are pounded in a wooden mortar causing the brittle pergamino to fragment and fall apart.

Clean coffee beans sans their skins and almost ready for roasting.

The final step - any irregular or weird looking beans are removed by hand so that the beans you purchase are as near to perfect as is humanly (and luwakly) possible.

Green coffee beans can be stored for a considerable period of time.