Herveys Range Heritage Tea Rooms Herveys Range Heritage Tea Rooms The Herveys Range Heritage Tea Rooms are an historical cafe located at the top of the Hervey Range, approximately north-west of Townsville in North Queensland, Australia. The tea rooms are famous for being the only cafe in Queensland to include Kopi Luwak coffee on their menu, hailed as the most expensive coffee in the world. Kopi Luwak is an Indonesian coffee made from beans that have passed through the digestive system of the Asian palm civet ("Paradoxurus hermaphroditus"), known in Indonesia as the luwak. Collected from the floor of the jungle, the defecated beans are
Kopi Luwak has two farms with 200 (in Davao City) and 100 (Iligan City) wild civets. But the archipelago of Indonesia where the famous "kopi luwak" was first discovered and produced is leading in supplying the world market for almost three centuries, where many small-scale civet farms are proliferating in the countryside. Several studies have examined the process in which the animal's stomach acids and enzymes digest the beans' covering and ferment the beans. Research by food scientist Massimo Marcone at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada showed that the civet's endogenous digestive secretions seep into the beans. These secretions carry