Civet Coffee Highest Cost. The most expensive coffee in the world is civet coffee (kopi luwak) which is made out of coffee beans excreted by civet cats. One kilogram of civet coffee can cost you $700.
The cost of a pound of this coffee has gone up to $350. The word “kopi” means “coffee” in balinese, while “luwak” is the local name for the palm civet. This is mainly due to extra labor required to extract these beans from the “normal” flat beans but is also because the natural coffee bean mutation cannot be replicated.
Cultivated in boquete, panama in the shade of guava trees, this fine coffee is known to cost more than $100 per pound.
This is mainly due to extra labor required to extract these beans from the “normal” flat beans but is also because the natural coffee bean mutation cannot be replicated. The coffee, kopi luwak, besides being a world famous commodity for being the highest priced, the coffee is also high end and produced from the high grade arabica. Due to such exclusivity, a pound of it costs between us$100 and us$600, easily making it the most expensive coffee in the world! Distressing pictures show 'wild' civet cats being which produce £60 cups of coffee.