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
Giling Basah called “luwak”. The coffee beans, still coated with mucilage, are then stored for up to a day. Afterwards the mucilage is washed off and the parchment coffee is partially dried for sale, retaining only 30% to 35% of the moisture content. Processors and collectors then hull the coffee in a semi-wet state, which gives the beans a unique bluish-green appearance. This method is thought to reduce acidity and increase body, resulting in the classic Indonesian cup profile. The Giling Basah process can create a "goat's foot," a split on one end, in green coffee beans. Sometimes the hulling machine partially