The most expensive coffee in the world

Although Blue Mountain Coffee is recognized as the most expensive coffee in the world, at about $40 per pound, it is dwarfed by another production in Sumatra, which can sell for $300 per pound. This is the "infamous" Ruwak coffee.

Usually, after the coffee fruit is picked, the peel, pulp and silver skin are removed either by the sun or by washing, but the coffee beans are extracted by natural fermentation in the animal digestive system. The civet in the mountains of Indonesia likes to eat a kind of coffee fruit called "Ruwak". The seed coffee beans of the fruits eaten by the civets cannot be digested and will be excreted with the excrement of the civets. Indonesians found that the Luwak coffee beans fermented by the civets' intestines and stomach had a rare and strange aroma, so they collected the civet feces and used the separated coffee beans to brew the coffee. Because the output is very small, it is the most expensive coffee in the world.