The coffee belt. That place where all those beans that end up in your cup arrive from. That red berry is the fruity outside that the Civet Cat eats. Now maybe many years ago people did indeed pick up its poop and make coffee out of it.
Now a days its more like this. A caged cat fed an all you can eat buffet of the coffee fruit. Since the beans are hard, this little guy poops them out; as can be seen here. Yep, this guy is pooping.
Why lock these cats up? Well if they were in the wild collecting their poop beans would be hard. These guys would poop in the trees, in the bushes, and everywhere else. Meaning bean poop collection would be hard.
So rather than track down the poop, the cats are put in cages and fed all the coffee fruit they can eat. Its then dried, washed, and ground down. It's then ready to drink.
All bad right. Yep made me sad. But like all things bad, the coffee tastes amazing. Did a blind taste test at the plantation and yes there is a difference and yes it does taste better.
Oh and at the plantation it also costs $5.
Ubud, Bali
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