You can get that same experience with coffee for much cheaper, but it does require a little effort. You just need to find a good coffee roaster near you or online where you can get freshly roasted specialty coffee(arabica, not robusta; and from a single farm, not a blend), instead of the stuff at grocery stores that’s been sitting for months. It might cost $15-$20 a bag, but that’s still less than a dollar per cup! If you want the absolute best coffee, then grinding the beans yourself and using something like an aeropress or pourover brewer is ideal, but you can still get great coffee just by buying locally roasted beans from a nearby shop, letting them grind the beans for you, then brewing with a regular old coffee machine
Even compared to something like a washed Ethiopian? To be honest I’ve never tried kopi luwak, I just figured it was overhyped and comparable to other specialty coffee lol
I mean I still think it’s overhyped, except maybe as just an interesting concept. And, we got the most artisanal authentic kind imaginable, what with a guy on the ground we could trust. If you go and buy on the market it you’ll probably get farmed or even counterfeit stuff.
I’m not the coffee gourmet myself, to be clear, but I know people who are including the guy that brewed the kopi luwak for us that time. I can’t tell you exactly what I’ve tried, but I’ve definitely had various Ethiopian beans. Most good coffees taste better aside from the bitterness, it had a pretty boring flavour profile.
You can get that same experience with coffee for much cheaper, but it does require a little effort. You just need to find a good coffee roaster near you or online where you can get freshly roasted specialty coffee(arabica, not robusta; and from a single farm, not a blend), instead of the stuff at grocery stores that’s been sitting for months. It might cost $15-$20 a bag, but that’s still less than a dollar per cup! If you want the absolute best coffee, then grinding the beans yourself and using something like an aeropress or pourover brewer is ideal, but you can still get great coffee just by buying locally roasted beans from a nearby shop, letting them grind the beans for you, then brewing with a regular old coffee machine
I’ve had lots of gourmet coffee, actually. It still has some bitterness. Like, this stuff you could have given to a baby, as I remember it.
Even compared to something like a washed Ethiopian? To be honest I’ve never tried kopi luwak, I just figured it was overhyped and comparable to other specialty coffee lol
I mean I still think it’s overhyped, except maybe as just an interesting concept. And, we got the most artisanal authentic kind imaginable, what with a guy on the ground we could trust. If you go and buy on the market it you’ll probably get farmed or even counterfeit stuff.
I’m not the coffee gourmet myself, to be clear, but I know people who are including the guy that brewed the kopi luwak for us that time. I can’t tell you exactly what I’ve tried, but I’ve definitely had various Ethiopian beans. Most good coffees taste better aside from the bitterness, it had a pretty boring flavour profile.