Move over, artisanal oat-milk lattes—kopi luwak is here, brewed from beans that took the scenic route through a civet’s digestive tract. Scientists in Kerala just confirmed what your wallet suspected: the world’s priciest coffee owes its buttery aroma to literal poop enzymes. At $1,000 per kilo, each sip is a high-stakes gamble between “gourmet” and “gastrointestinal regret.” Ethical farms? Rare. Cage-free civets? Rarer. But hey, at least the beans are pre-fermented.
World’s Most Expensive Coffee Is Chemically Different Because It’s Literally Poop
