to maria: additional info on civets(though i’m not claiming an expert) additional info ; they only eat ripe coffee beans(cherries) ,irregardless of varieties,so the droppings are a mixture of right vatieties(arabica,robusta,excelsea,liberica) which are nature-ripened beans. these are eaten by civets sporadically thus they are known to have a knack for eating quality beans. we humans can not duplicate this flair, only civets. so imagine superior beans are consumed with civets,later picked-up by farmers from the ground. only the skin of the beans are absorbed from the digestion process, still the outer shell is left intact. then, there are other series of procedures: drying,scaling,roasting & grinding, before it is served hot, uh brew/percolate first.

I’d say, you are brave to have tasted the civet coffee. I can’t extracate myself from the thought that these are droppings. Also, because these came from the very animal that cause the SARS epidemic.