Food 2 – Weasel Coffee

April 16, 2012 by andrewamiet 0 Comments | Full size is 4000 × 3000 pixels

One of the more famous varieties in the area (similar to the famous Kopi Luwak in the Phillipines) is a type of coffee bean that is eaten by a weasel and then subsequently “collected” from the droppings. Supposedly, this acts as both a screening process for the beans, as the weasels only eat the beans that are at the peak of their freshness, and a processing step that adds a bit of early flavor to the coffee

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