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Civet Cat Poop Coffee

     A friend of mine returned from a trip to Indonesia and because he knows that I love coffee, and they have coffee plantation tours and things like that, he brought me two small boxes of specialty coffee, one was a couple ounces of pure robusto, grown on the plantation he toured, and the other was a single ounce of Wild Kopi Luwak, civet cat poop coffee. Civet cats are similar to cats and live in the wild where they eat coffee bean fruit and then locals have been collecting their poop and separating the beans out for centuries. It typically costs $20 - $30 per ounce online and everyone gives it rave reviews, but I just don't know.      I do love coffee, I love coffee so much that I used to roast my own green coffee beans from Sweet Maria's, and prefer dry processed Ethiopian coffee that has been roasted to between full City Plus and Vienna, or about ⅓ of the way through the second crack just as it starts to get rolling. For me, that is the perfect roa...