Civet Coffee Beans For Sale. The first step in the civet coffee production process is the most crucial and the most harrowing — that of scouring the dense philippine agroforest floor for tiny droppings akin to yellow beans in gravy. During this process, some kind of fermentation also occurs that gives the civet cat coffee its special flavor.
But, to keep up with rising demand, civets are now being cruelly captured and forced to live in inhumane conditions. Our kopi luwak is as authentic as it gets. Civet dung, studded with partially digested coffee beans, used to be collected from the wild.
The safety of the civets on our reserve is our #1 priority.
We do not keep the civets in cages, they roam free so they can eat the coffee cherries they choose. A civet is a small mammal belonging to the paradoxurus gen us that is found in forests in numerous parts of the world. Many coffee brewers and processors believe that having asian palm civet create kopi luwak results in a better coffee product. The droppings are collected and the coffee beans are.