This coffee is a really special one. You may have heard of Kopi Luwak coffee-- it"s a processing method that utilizes partially digested coffee cherries from the droppings of palm civets (Asian wild cats). The digestive process of the civets alters the composition of the coffee beans" amino acids, which positively impacts the aroma and flavour profile. It"s a rare and unusual way of experiencing coffee, but it also comes with downsides: it"s difficult to keep hygienic, and more importantly, it"s cruel to civets, who are usually kept in tiny spaces in order to be able to harvest their droppings efficiently. Rani and her team have developed an amazing way to recreate the flavour of Kopi Luwak without the animal cruelty by isolating the enyzmes present in a civet"s digestive tract and using them in their fermentation p...