kona coffee to buy
Friday, July 30th, 2010
What is the best coffee in the world…Blue Mountain, Kona or Columbian?
I have consumed quite a bit of Blue Mountain, Kona & Columbian coffee. I’m partial to Blue Mountain, but only visit Jamaica once per year. I normally buy Columbian Supremo by Millstone, which is the best Columbian I have found. It’s not easy to find good Kona coffee that’s not a blend.
The World’s Most Expensive Coffee is From Beans Cycled Through an Indonesian Monkey’s Digestive System.
Is it necessarily the best coffee in the world… some tend to believe it is, and they pay $160 a pound!
Kopi Luwak is a rare and gourmet coffee from Indonesia that is made from beans passed through the digestive system of monkeys.
Kopi Luwak does exist, is very expensive, and is made from coffee beans passed through the digestive system of an Indonesian animal, but it’s more like a cat than a monkey. According to a feature article by the Manila Coffee House, which sells the stuff, the people who harvest the digested beans don’t really have to pick through cat litter to get it. The animal processes the beans and excretes them whole, unscratched, and without dung.
The animal is a palm civet, a dark brown tree-dwelling cat-like creature found throughout Southeast Asia. The scientific name is paradoxurus hermaphroditus.
According to the Manila Coffee House, the palm civet just happens to like to ingest the ripest and reddest coffee beans, which also happen to be the ones best for brewing. The cat eats the outer covering of the beans in the same way that is accomplished by de-pulping machines. Something happens to the beans in the journey through the cat’s intestines that gives it a flavor that is celebrated by coffee drinkers.
At this point, most of the beans are purchased by Japanese buyers.
If you REALLY want to try a GREAT tasting blend of coffee without paying an arm and a leg, get a can (about 2/3 of the can is red, botton 1/3 yellow, with black letters on the top side) of CAFE BUSTELO, a dark roasted coffee. Want fairly mild but good tasting black coffee, heat water, add coffee (one heaping tablespoon per regular cup of coffee) just as it start to bubble and turn it off as soon as it starts to rise. Strain and serve. Use sugar or artificial sweetner. For a change in taste, add a drop or two of vanilla extract, or a dash of cinnamon powder, or Disoronno Amaretto! (Keep the lid on the can at all times and keep refrigerated). You will think it is the best coffee in the world; great for Spanish cafe con leche (cafe au lait or latte) or capuccino or even expresso!
Kona Coffee Wars Revealed Part 1