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Buying into the mid-range is fine. It's what I do with beer a tequila. Buying the $200 bottles is where I question the logic. Even the expert tasters struggle t

Buying into the mid-range is fine. It's what I do with beer a tequila. Buying the $200 bottles is where I question the logic. Even the expert tasters struggle to differentiate between a good $20-30 bottle and a $400 bottle in double blind tests. I don't drink Sanka or Coors, I just use good coffee beans and drink good local beer. I don't spend $200 on exotic coffee beans feral cats have shit out. The only reason I put the $6 in parens for wine is because I don't drink wine and don't really know where the price point is for a solid mid-range wine is.

turndown 6y ago
I don't drink coffee, and probably never will, but I remember listening to a podcast once where two coffee drinkers who derided the whole "eat coffee beans shit out by a civet" idea tried it and said it was the best coffee they had ever had. YMMV
- rectang 6y ago
  Being an ordinary human, I will never know how trolls trolling trolls had a hand in bringing us this tale of Kopi Luwak. * you * the two Kopi Luwak drinkers * the merchant who sold them the Kopi Luwak * the modern day manufacturers and wholesalers of Kopi Luwak * the genius who came up with Kopi Luwak * the civet How many are civet shit true believers? How many are trolls — some, none, all?
  - ogre_codes 6y ago
    There is also a lot of unethical/ inhumane sourcing on civet coffee at this point.
- ogre_codes 6y ago
  With wine, lots of people claim to be able to taste the difference between an expensive wine and a cheap one, but as soon as you did a double-blind test, they couldn't tell them apart. I would be extremely curious to see if the civet coffee was still there if there was double-blind taste test. And sure enough, someone has done it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDXWgVr_z30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDXWgVr_z30 The civet coffee doesn't even come in second place out of 5. Obviously not scientific.
  - turndown 6y ago
    The explanation they provided(or perhaps this was for another kind of digested coffee bean from a kind of monkey??) was that it eliminated the bitterness that comes with drinking coffee.

turndown 6y ago

I don't drink coffee, and probably never will, but I remember listening to a podcast once where two coffee drinkers who derided the whole "eat coffee beans shit out by a civet" idea tried it and said it was the best coffee they had ever had. YMMV

rectang 6y ago
Being an ordinary human, I will never know how trolls trolling trolls had a hand in bringing us this tale of Kopi Luwak. * you * the two Kopi Luwak drinkers * the merchant who sold them the Kopi Luwak * the modern day manufacturers and wholesalers of Kopi Luwak * the genius who came up with Kopi Luwak * the civet How many are civet shit true believers? How many are trolls — some, none, all?
- ogre_codes 6y ago
  There is also a lot of unethical/ inhumane sourcing on civet coffee at this point.
ogre_codes 6y ago
With wine, lots of people claim to be able to taste the difference between an expensive wine and a cheap one, but as soon as you did a double-blind test, they couldn't tell them apart. I would be extremely curious to see if the civet coffee was still there if there was double-blind taste test. And sure enough, someone has done it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDXWgVr_z30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDXWgVr_z30 The civet coffee doesn't even come in second place out of 5. Obviously not scientific.
- turndown 6y ago
  The explanation they provided(or perhaps this was for another kind of digested coffee bean from a kind of monkey??) was that it eliminated the bitterness that comes with drinking coffee.