The luwak
After the Water Palace, a Grab ride back up north near Tegallalang to Bali Pulina. Our second coffee plantation of the trip: the first was Abian Kusumasari after the Mt Batur sunrise, and we clearly hadn’t had enough free coffee.
The civets are the luwak in kopi luwak. They eat the coffee cherries, and the beans come out the other end. Seeing them in cages is the part we felt less good about.
Bean to cup
They walk you through the whole process: the beans, the drying in the sun, the baskets they’re sorted in.
Then the roasting, by hand, in a clay pan over a wood fire. Minmin went first.
Then I had a go. Next to it stands a proper steel roasting machine, which I suspect does most of the real work.
The tasting
Then the tasting, at a café looking over the jungle. A tray of ten little cups of coffees and teas comes free.
We split them, tasted every one, and argued about which was best.
On top of the free ones we got a glass of rosella tea, deep purple and nicely sour.
Around the grounds
A short walk around the grounds before we left: a bamboo bridge and a lot of jungle.
Then a photo at the stone gate on the way out, and a Grab back to The Udaya for our last night.
Postcard from Tegallalang, Bali
A coffee plantation north of Ubud with a café looking over the jungle. They show you how luwak coffee is made, then give you a free tasting tray of coffees and teas.