The Coffee Project

Wild, Free Roaming, Kopi Luwak, Raw Coffee

http://bit.ly/CivitCoffee   Raw, Organic, Traceable Cage Free Kopi Luwak to Roast At Home.

Kopi Luwak – The most expensive and rare coffee on the planet.
This is the coffee that Jack Nicholson’s character in The Bucket List describes as the best he’s ever had.

Newcomers, this Kopi Luwak is raw coffee, unroasted. Also called “green coffee.” You need to roast it first before grinding. Roasting only takes about 10 minutes and its super easy. Look around our site if you have any questions.

What’s special about THIS Kopi Luwak?  It’s 100% traceable through World Animal Protection at freely living in the highlands of the Gayo Mountains in Northern Sumatra. A few years ago we stopped selling Kopi Luwak due to a rise in caged Luwaks.

THIS Wild Kopi Luwak comes exclusively from Monitored farmers and is therefore completely traceable to the coffee farmer where no caged animals are kept in or around the farms. We refer to the Code of Conduct CF.B.7 clause, which states: “There are no animals used to produce any kind of animal coffee held in captivity on the farm.”

You gourmands might be interested to know that these are in fact Arabica beans, not Robusta as some Kopi Luwak may be. Who likes a big steamy Robusta? when you can have a… never mind. The point is, you want Arabica Kopi Luwak, never Robusta.

Aside from the silliness, these are surprisingly good looking and well processed beans. At first whiff there is a musty/tangy quality to the raw coffee. The grading is uniform and clean, as good or better than a lot of raw coffee you might see. In the sunlight the beans have an interesting translucency similar to some huehuetenengo. You’ll recognize them immediately as Sumatra, but a deeper tone.

This may not be the coffee for everyday occasions, but its worth crossing off your list as something you’ve tried at least once in your life.

A:  Howzit,  I’m sorry, we cannot ship raw coffee into Hawaii, because it it a coffee growing region.

Q:  I grow coffee in my backyard, so that’s why I’m into roasting my own. I don’t harvest enough for a continuous supply and I’ve tried all the different island coffees, which is what led me to your company. Variety is the spice of life.

A:  There’s really no chance of broca or rust coming from our beans, but it would look bad if the internet started saying we were sending coffee into Hawaii. That kind of stuff never goes away. Plus, ruining an entire segment of Hawaii’s economy would be pretty bad too.

We’d be happy to trade some parchment at some point for some coffee toys though if we can figure out how to make it work. When we can, it’s good to offer seeds for growing and and parchment is the best way to do that. If there’s a mill near you where you can pick up a few pounds that would be interesting.

Q: Coffee is grown about 10 miles from where I live in central Oahu in a small town called Wahiawa. Their mill is somewhere on the north shore. I’ll go check it out and see if they have any parchment for sale.

Please explain to me why you cannot ship to Hawaii. Is is by law? or is it like an unwritten rule in the industry?  The reason I ask is because green unroasted coffee is available on Amazon and I’m certain they’ll ship to Hawaii. Coffee XX, The X Coffee Company and XXX, LLC are some of the companies selling on Amazon.

A:  In order to follow the rules we’d have to fumigate the coffee we send you with methylbromide and supply a phytosanitary document for import. To make it worthwhile fumigation of a container load is about minimum, 40,000 pounds. Just not worth it at this level. If the Hawaiian Board of agriculture identifies coffee coming in without current paperwork it would be seized and destroyed. I’m assuming we’d get slapped publicly as well.

Having already entered the contiguous US there’s no chance of our coffee carrying rust or broca at this level of boutique coffee, but the rules are there, and it wouldn’t be right to send it on to Hawaii.  It seems like a few years ago broca WAS identified and now lives in Hawaii.  It was probably from an industrial sized import, or live plant brought in etc. Or coffee shipped in direct from origin, not ever passing by US customs first.

Here’s a little info too from our blog  http://67.22.130.146/blog/?p=310

Here’s also something from the state http://hdoa.hawaii.gov/pi/pq/travel-shipping-information/traveling-from-the-u-s-mainland-to-hawai%CA%BBi/

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