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
Civet (perfumery) Civet (perfumery) Civet ("Zibeth"; "Zibet"; "Zibetum"), also known as civet musk, is the glandular secretion produced by both sexes of Viverridae species. A number of viverrid species secrete civet oil in their perineal glands, including the African civet ("Civettictis civetta"), large Indian civet ("Viverra zibetha") and small Indian civet ("Viverricula indica"). Most civet is produced in African farms, where African civets are kept in cages for this purpose. African civets typically produce three to four grams of civet per week. In 2000, civet sold for about five hundred dollars per kilogram. Civet is a soft, almost liquid material. It is