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Since I was a kid, I have been hearing about Luwak Coffee (civet coffee). The most expensive coffee in the world. When I googled it recently, it was sold about $35 to $80 a cup in the USA. In Solo, my small city in Indonesia, one of my favorite cafes sells it 4 times more expensive than a regular cup of coffee. Recently I accidentally found one of my favorite coffee roasters sold Gayo Wild Luwak Coffee. The price was 50% cheaper than Luwak coffee sold by other roasters. The prices of Wild Luwak coffee beans here are from $8.87 and $18.47 per 100 gram. But, this roaster sold it for $4.80 per 100 gram. So, I decided to buy it. I felt hesitant because there was a Japanese friend who tried Luwak coffee before and she said that it didn't taste different from regular coffee. I read on some coffee forums the same conclusions. But, when I visited several sites that sell Luwak coffee and read the testimonies from the buyers, I was curious. Some buyers said that Luwak coffee was different f...

Previously I wrote about gedheg dripper, a coffee dripper made by bamboo webbing. The photo of this dripper was shared by several Instagram accounts like @manual_brewing. There was no information about the price or how the creator used it. Now, I got some new information from another Instagram accounts. It seems one Instagram account uses this dripper regularly. The account, @kopiapik uploaded several photos of this dripper. It's called Cur. I don't know why the name was chosen as its dripper name. But I assume “cur” has anything to do with how Indonesians call the sound of water dripping. I mean when water is dripping from various objects, the dripping voice in Indonesia is called “cur”. Does it make sense? KopiApik posted a photo on its account that explained the idea of this dripper. “Before the conical coffee dripper was made by Japanese in 1950s, our ancestors (Indonesian ancestors) had already made their first coffee dripper. But Java (maybe it talks about what ...

This morning when I was scrolling my Instagram feed, I found something interesting. One of Instagram accounts I followed, @manual_brewing regrammmed an interesting photo. It was regrammed from an account @butuhkopi.co. The photo was about a homemade coffee dripper called gedheg dripper. The caption was written, “Gedheg dripper. Inspired by v60 dripper, with local wisdom material: bamboo webbing.” Yes, the dripper was made from bamboo webbing and it looks like v60 dripper for most coffee lovers. Sadly, there was no information whether this dripper will be sold. Nor there was no information about the brewing results using this manual tool. From the photo, we can conclude that it used paper filter as well. From the comments on both accounts, some Instagram users expressed their intentions to buy and had this dripper. But sadly, both accounts couldn't give more explanation. Of course we cannot blame both of them, my attempt to find more information from Google couldn't g...

I live in a small city named Solo in Central Java, Indonesia. Coffee manual brewing methods are something new in my country. I'm not sure when it began, but I started to learn the methods last year. I don't really remember how and when I started to like coffee. Maybe I like coffee because it is usually offered in various restaurants, and street food vendors in Indonesia besides tea. You will easily find both of them in my country. But most coffees that are served, drank and sold in my city mixed with other ingredients like for example corns. I just found out about it recently. The reason coffee farmers mix coffee with other ingredients is so that they can sell coffee cheaply. If they sell coffee beans without other ingredients, the beans will be expensive and most people probably cannot afford it. And of course, instant coffee is popular and common here. Since I was a teenager, I liked to drink instant coffee. Why not? It was cheaper, came with various flavours. Real cafes th...