Weasel coffee – it’s the next big thing! Have you ever lusted after a cup of coffee that has been made by getting a weasel (really a Vietnamese ‘civet’) to eat coffee beans, poo them out half-digested, before boiling up the results? Yum yum. A coffee shop in Townsville on Australia’s east coast charges 50 dollars a pop for one cup. Unsurprisingly, they only sell an average of 7 cups a week.

As you can imagine, the digestive tract of the weasel changes the taste of the bean a great deal, creating a very unique coffee drinking experience. It is certainly a very expensive way to make a cup of coffee, whereby the weasels droppings are collected by Vietnamese villagers, then washed and dried before being roasted. There is some concern that as the weasels carry the E Coli bacteria, drinking the coffee could give it to the drinker – but there has been no recorded case of this happening.

As the cost of buying the coffee is so high, if you’re considering developing a weasel coffee habit, we think that it would probably be cheaper to actually go to Vietnam, find a weasel and wait for it to poo – then wash, dry and grind the results for a nice brew up.