And if that isn’t enough to shock, the method by which it is made just might.
Kopi Luwak coffee, which is produced on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is made from animal droppings.
The beans are extracted from the droppings of the native palm civet — a cat-like creature that eats only the ripest coffee cherries - but can’t digest the hard centres.
They digest the fruit pulp and excrete the beans on to the forest floor.
The droppings, combined with the animal’s gastric juices, are said to be the key to the coffee’s rich, frothy flavour.
The beans are extremely rare and only around 450lb per year are harvested.
It can be served with or without sugar.Exactly seven grams are weighed out before being brewed and poured into a heated coffee cup, which helps form a frothy layer on top.
The coffee is to go on sale at new venue DSTRKT, near London’s Piccadilly.
It boasts a bar, restaurant and nightclub after a £25 million renovation of the Planet Hollywood site.
Operations manager and partner Fraser Donaldson said yesterday: ‘It’s not a gimmick. The beans actually make a really, really nice cup of coffee.
‘The way it is made might put some people off but it will certainly wake you up at 10 o’clock at night.
‘We are the only people in the UK to sell it with the next nearest place the Ritz Carlton in Paris.
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