Coffee

[Wapiti]

I know a few coffee snobs and I am one too, but way less than the Mrs.
Usually, I don't ever drink instant unless desperate, and like Italian pressure steamed strong shots with great mates on cold cold days. Ground coffees only.
When we moved the medical practice from Katherine to down here in the Southern Downs to consolidate the businesses, this stuff popped up.
It was bought by the receptionists on the wife's recommendation, apparently this is the last packet left.

Ever seen it? It's the coffee beans gifted to Kevin Rudd years ago, everyone thought the Indos were taking the p1ss. These beans are eaten by the Asian Palm Civit monkey and shat out. The scats are then collected, washed and roasted. It's quite a sought-after coffee as far as coffee snobs go.
Apparently the enzymes in the monkeys guts do some magic things to the beans before they pass back into fresh jungle air.
People giggle and laugh as most juvenile types do about this, crack jokes about tasting like s**t etc but they are inevitably those who think instant really is coffee and .22 pistols make them real men.
It's actually incredibly smooth, full flavoured and hits hard, even to strong coffee appreciatos like me.
If you get a chance to live, try some. Almost as fun as a 20-20 Gummy party.
This packet is an endangered species right now staring at me from the wife's big coffee bar.

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[No1Mk3]

Coffee, like all beverages, is highly subjective in that it defines the old adage "one mans poison is another mans nectar" I love Laphroaig but most people think it's like kero mixed with sump oil, I drink home ground coffee quite often using a blend of beans from Aldi & Coles as well as instant for the convenience but I am considering getting a coffee maker that uses pods having gotten fond of the one in the clubhouse at the range, particularly the Abruzzo pods. As for Luwak, the creaminess is distinct but I don't think a lot of the taste (most professional coffee tasters in the US don't either oddly enough) but have only had Filipino Luwak which is commercially produced, is yours naturallly harvested or battery farmed? Most of those who like it say the farmed coffee is not as distinct as the wild harvested beans.

[bigrich]

it's good to enjoy great quality in food and beverages in our lives , mine used to be single malt Scottish whiskey and Irish whiskey . as far as coffee goes , moccona expresso does me .

[Bugman]

I know a few coffee snobs and I am one too, but way less than the Mrs.
Usually, I don't ever drink instant unless desperate, and like Italian pressure steamed strong shots with great mates on cold cold days. Ground coffees only.
When we moved the medical practice from Katherine to down here in the Southern Downs to consolidate the businesses, this stuff popped up.
It was bought by the receptionists on the wife's recommendation, apparently this is the last packet left.

Ever seen it? It's the coffee beans gifted to Kevin Rudd years ago, everyone thought the Indos were taking the p1ss. These beans are eaten by the Asian Palm Civit monkey and shat out. The scats are then collected, washed and roasted. It's quite a sought-after coffee as far as coffee snobs go.
Apparently the enzymes in the monkeys guts do some magic things to the beans before they pass back into fresh jungle air.
People giggle and laugh as most juvenile types do about this, crack jokes about tasting like s**t etc but they are inevitably those who think instant really is coffee and .22 pistols make them real men.
It's actually incredibly smooth, full flavoured and hits hard, even to strong coffee appreciatos like me.
If you get a chance to live, try some. Almost as fun as a 20-20 Gummy party.
This packet is an endangered species right now staring at me from the wife's big coffee bar.

Monkeysarse.jpg

I have heard of this type of coffee, but it still seems a bum wrap to me.

[bigrich]

I know a few coffee snobs and I am one too, but way less than the Mrs.
Usually, I don't ever drink instant unless desperate, and like Italian pressure steamed strong shots with great mates on cold cold days. Ground coffees only.
When we moved the medical practice from Katherine to down here in the Southern Downs to consolidate the businesses, this stuff popped up.
It was bought by the receptionists on the wife's recommendation, apparently this is the last packet left.

Ever seen it? It's the coffee beans gifted to Kevin Rudd years ago, everyone thought the Indos were taking the p1ss. These beans are eaten by the Asian Palm Civit monkey and shat out. The scats are then collected, washed and roasted. It's quite a sought-after coffee as far as coffee snobs go.
Apparently the enzymes in the monkeys guts do some magic things to the beans before they pass back into fresh jungle air.
People giggle and laugh as most juvenile types do about this, crack jokes about tasting like s**t etc but they are inevitably those who think instant really is coffee and .22 pistols make them real men.
It's actually incredibly smooth, full flavoured and hits hard, even to strong coffee appreciatos like me.
If you get a chance to live, try some. Almost as fun as a 20-20 Gummy party.
This packet is an endangered species right now staring at me from the wife's big coffee bar.

Monkeysarse.jpg

I have heard of this type of coffee, but it still seems a bum wrap to me.

lol . Good one bugman

[bigpete]

Palm civet cat,not monkey.
I have a mate that loves the s**t,but won't eat lambs fry.

[bigrich]

Palm civet cat,not monkey.
I have a mate that loves the s**t,but won't eat lambs fry.

Lambs fry and bacon was a favourite of mine as a kid

[Wapiti]

Palm civet cat,not monkey.
I have a mate that loves the s**t,but won't eat lambs fry.

Everything is a monkey to me mate.
Great bum nugget jokes, you lot. Hadn't thought of those yet.

I remember when Rudd was given that coffee and I p*ssed myself laughing because at that time, I'd just learned something sick about him from some coppers I knew, but we won't get into that.
Little did I know how good that sh*t tasted until we tried it.

Best way to try it is to order the whole beans, and grind it to how you prefer and make it the Italian way, or simply in a plunger, which is easy as.

But yeah, what I like in everyday coffee grinds is completely subjective, like Gin or Whisky or Bourbon, one man's smooth is another's cats p*ss.

Not that I don't gladly accept an instant coffee when dropping in on someone. Absolutely I do. But I've freaked plenty of people out who visit here and I drag out my head-spinner brews.

[bigpete]

Palm civet cat,not monkey.
I have a mate that loves the s**t,but won't eat lambs fry.

Lambs fry and bacon was a favourite of mine as a kid

Its still a favourite of mine

[bigrich]

Palm civet cat,not monkey.
I have a mate that loves the s**t,but won't eat lambs fry.

Everything is a monkey to me mate.
Great bum nugget jokes, you lot. Hadn't thought of those yet.

I remember when Rudd was given that coffee and I p*ssed myself laughing because at that time, I'd just learned something sick about him from some coppers I knew, but we won't get into that.
Little did I know how good that sh*t tasted until we tried it.

Best way to try it is to order the whole beans, and grind it to how you prefer and make it the Italian way, or simply in a plunger, which is easy as.

But yeah, what I like in everyday coffee grinds is completely subjective, like Gin or Whisky or Bourbon, one man's smooth is another's cats p*ss.

Not that I don't gladly accept an instant coffee when dropping in on someone. Absolutely I do. But I've freaked plenty of people out who visit here and I drag out my head-spinner brews.

as you say mate don't knock till you've tried it . most people have tried eating roo , wallaby is different again . venison with a slight grassy taste . the female of the species is tastiest . so i've been told people don't want to know but . freshwater eel out of a nice clean creek isn't bad either so i've been told , as eating some native species may be illegal and involve a heavy fine in the modern woke country australia has become .

next time i'm out your way i'll pop in for some "monkey bum" coffee that'll have me running up and down the ridge country out there

[Wapiti]

Of course, mate you can have a laugh at my crazy antics and I'll try and convince you to get away from that rat race!

With work nowadays being able to be done in the trades anywhere in Aus and you live wherever you get the most gains in life personally when you're away from that, AND a big property in prime hunting area that YOU can manage how you like costing the same as you'd get for most people's suburbs joints, hey everything is possible.

Except you'll have to put up with the terrible unreliable power grid that's become the norm out here with the renewables farce, we're on genny power again here this morning the mere sniff of a storm or lightning or big demand or any other excuse and she goes down.
You just have to have plan B in place we woke up to the auto-start genny being on and thunder, lightning and rain.
Imagine the burb voters influence screaming hard if that happened in the city voting centres all the time... maybe people would realise the pup they've been sold is growing up to rip their throats out!

[Wapiti]

But yeah, I'm on the second strong brewed ground beans cup this morning - smoothed out with a good dollop of pour cream to get the innards moving along...

Now that the (usually hidden by the evil seed oil and cancerous soy industries promoted by the evil you-know-who's of the world) long term medical studies involving tens of thousands of long-term participants has proven -
strong natural coffee with it's caffeine hits opens up the capillaries in your brain and elsewhere to flush with nutrient and oxygen filled blood (the big flush you get after a real cup or two) - huge lowering of Alzheimer's and heart disease by strong caffeine afficionados.

What more encouragement do I need?

[yoshie]

There was a coffee shop in Canberra selling something similar if not the same. $25 for a small flat white. My wife said it was ok.

[Wapiti]

My two favourite things together!
Surprisingly, very good. If you like some things different from everyone else.

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[GQshayne]

It was featured in the movie "The Bucket List".

[Wapiti]

Can't say I have ever heard of that movie.
My wife bought that to try, we don't drink much except for a wine with dinner maybe once a week, and a gin maybe at day's end Friday or Saturday evening to celebrate the good things that happen.
We just try different things and seeing coffee and gin together was irresistible. If a little sacrilegious to both kinds of beverages.

[GQshayne]

A well known film with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman in the lead roles. Well worth a watch.

The coffee provided some good moments.

[bigrich]

There was a coffee shop in Canberra selling something similar if not the same. $25 for a small flat white. My wife said it was ok.

crikey mate , it'd want to be better than OK for $25

[yoshie]

There was a coffee shop in Canberra selling something similar if not the same. $25 for a small flat white. My wife said it was ok.

crikey mate , it'd want to be better than OK for $25

Yeah $25 is a bit steep but she commented on trying new things in life at least once. But when I ask to try other things once she declines... women.

[Wapiti]

Anybody try these?
I haven't found a coffee-bag been any good yet, for my taste anyway. Some mates take these to work as they can just drop one into a cup with hot water.

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