In both types of coffee beans, many varieties that emit distinct aroma and flavor.
Gourmet coffee prices and its processing is expensive due to the unique properties that have a sense of the exotic.
Here are 3 types of gourmet coffee as well as the most expensive in the world famous:
1. Hawaiian Kona
Kona coffee is only grown in the "Big Island" of Hawaii, on the slopes of Mauna Loa and Hualalai mountains.
Volcanic soil and cool climate provide ideal growing conditions for the environment so as to produce one of the products most sought after coffee beans in the world.
Kona Peaberry Kona coffee beans are the most rare. The name comes from a unique form of coffee beans.
Kona coffee beans are usually two faced each other in the fruit, but not separate Peaberry coffee beans in the middle and resembles an oval-shaped nut (pea shape).
Kona Peaberry coffee beans have a strong flavor and produced only about 5 percent of the total Kona coffee beans each year.
2. Jamaica Blue Mountain
Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee gained international recognition in Ian Fleming's "Live and Let Die," when the character of James Bond was proclaimed as the coffee is the most delicious coffee in the world.
Jamaica also has volcanic soil and cool, cloud-covered and climate making it an ideal place for growing the best coffee.
Because the ten-month growing season, Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee beans that have larger with a more complex flavor than other varieties of Arabica coffee.
3. Kopi Luwak
Luwak coffee grown in Indonesia. Kopi Luwak gourmet coffee is one of the most expensive in the world.
Coffee is famous for its 'harvested' after passing through the digestive system Luwak, ferret animal.
Kopi Luwak coffee is sweeter than the other because the civet digestive enzymes destroyed several compounds that give a bitter taste to regular coffee. Luwak coffee is only eating fruits of high quality.
Undigested coffee beans are discarded Luwak through the anus in the form of clumps. The clumps are then collected and processed.
Coffee beans are then stored until ready for baking and then sent to the buyer.
