10 Crazy Coffee Types, not your average coffee

Are you tired of your typical coffee or the cappuccino from Starbucks? These are some of the worlds "exotic" coffee that you might not want to try, or you might, if your that adventurous. 

1. Kopi Luwak

Indonesia’s Kopi Luwak, also known as Civet Coffee, is perfect for those looking for the rarest of all coffee brews, but not for those who’d easily get an upset stomach if they knew where these beans came from — cat-like luwak’s (palm civet) droppings. The forest animal eats coffee cherries and because it can’t digest the coffee beans, it just eliminates the beans along with the rest of its droppings. But hey, before you go hunt for that expensive bag, be sure it’s genuine and not a fake which comes from caged luwaks.



2. Kopi Joss


Charcoal in coffee. Found in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, the concoction is made with the usual Javanese style of preparing coffee: loose coffee grinds and sugar in a cup and hot water poured on top. Then, a flaming hot charcoal is added to the brew to neutralize the coffee’s acidity. So for those who get upset tummies after drinking coffee, you might wanna try a smoking hot cup of Kopi Joss.

3.  Coffee with peppercorn

 For Moroccans, coffee won’t be complete with a kick of black peppercorn. Other than peppercorns, they also love making a cup with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cardamom pods, cloves
 and other spices.

4. Coffee with salt

No, we’re not confused between salt and sugar. It’s actually common to add in a pinch of salt to coffee especially in Northern Scandinavia, Siberia, Turkey, Hungary, Ethiopia and Eritrea. It won’t make your coffee salty (unless you go over 10 shakes a cup); otherwise, it’ll cut down the coffee’s bitterness.

5. Coffee with butter (Coffee With Gu Yu) 

 

 You might think about the “Bulletproof coffee” health fad, but dissolving butter in a cup of hot coffee isn’t new to Southeast Asia’s Singapore. Adding butter creates a nice aroma and makes the already thick coffee richer. However, finding a cup in newer kopitiams can be a quite challenge. 

 6. Coffee with Cheese

 You might think about the “Bulletproof coffee” health fad, but dissolving butter in a cup of hot coffee isn’t new to Southeast Asia’s Singapore. Adding butter creates a nice aroma and makes the already thick coffee richer. However, finding a cup in newer kopitiams can be a quite challenge.

 

7. Eggs in Coffee

 

And we’re talking about the whole egg — eggshells included. Different countries have their own versions of egg coffee and it’s up to you what you think will suit your tongue thirsty for some rich coffee. Americans with Scandinavian origin in the Midwest have their Norwegian/Swedish/Finnish egg coffee which is prepared by mixing ground coffee with egg  — egg whites only, egg yolks only, shells for calcium, anything you want. Add them to boiling water and after filtering, you’ll get a thick, bitterless and acidless egg coffee.
And there’s Cà Phê Trứng or Vietnamese egg coffee, which is simply made my whisking a mixture of egg yolk, sweetened condensed milk and freshly-brewed Vietnamese coffee. Then, enjoy the frothy and mild tasting coffee.

8. Elephant Coffee

If there’s Kopi Luwak from Indonesia, Thailand has there own coffee exoticness; Coffee from elephant dung. Elephants can't digest coffee beans and therefore, these beans get mixed with the other elephant's food, a dude from Thailand thought it would be a great idea to get the elephant dung make coffee out of it.. and HEY! His idea worked, not only that it worked, it's now the worlds most expensive coffee! 

9. Coffee With Citrus

 

Sao Paulo, Brazil has café com limão (espresso with lime) and Italy has
spresso with lemon peel or juice. Citrus lessens the warmth of coffee and can serve as a remedy to migraine. It also sweetens up badly roasted coffee.

 

 

 10. Coffee Durian

 

 Durian is a common fruit in South East Asian, it tastes really good but smells like crap. Anyway if you actually see a durian, you'll really wonder how this fruit could possibly be coffee.