... I like a nice cup of proper coffee at the weekend, and I decided that coffee probably doesn't get more proper than when it has been eaten and regurgitated by Vietnamese Weasels….
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Advantages: Quirky drink to surprise your friends with Disadvantages: Not different enough from normal coffee to justify the price!
...with a picture of a weasel on the front, and a little bit about how it is made and how to prepare it on the back.
Basically in a coffee plantation in Vietnam, wild weasels are allowed to roam around eating the coffee beans. They then partly digest them and vomit them back up. These are then collected and ground in the usual way.
Apparently being partly digested by a weasel alters the taste of the coffee significantly.
So - the taste test.
The ... ...out the cafetiere and boiled the kettle. The instructions said to make the coffee as you would any other ground coffee. I put a spoonful of the powder, which looked and smelt remarkably like ground coffee (!), in the cafetiere, and poured on the water.
After waiting I poured myself a cup and added a dash of milk. It still looked and smelt like normal coffee, if a little thinner. And then I took the plunge and tasted it. Not bad! Quite a mild coffee ...
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