# Kopi luwak

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**Created:** [August 3, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kopi-luwak/258165 "2004-08-03T17:49:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 3, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kopi-luwak/258165/1 "2004-08-03T17:49:35Z")

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Massimo Marcone, a researcher in Canada has recently found that [kopi luwak](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010525.html), or a reasonable facsimile thereof, can indeed be created by the perfume-ingredient-producing cousin _Viverra civetta_ of the Indonesian palm civet _Paradoxurus hermaphroditus_.

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> [http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040726/full/040726-5.html](http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040726/full/040726-5.html)  
> In a forthcoming issue of Food Research International, Marcone describes how he brewed coffee from **beans that he personally picked out of the faeces of African civets** (_Civettictis civetta_) and compared it with a mug of Kopi Luwak.

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I hope his grant gets renewed, just so that he will be able to afford graduate students to pick out the beans for him.