Guinness Earns Her Keep

If you've ever enjoyed a cup of joe at 1605 N. Pocomoke, you might have wondered what makes our coffee so unique. Matt's shiny, gourmet coffee maker? James' expert and loving bean grinding?

Nah... turns out it's all in the beans. Beans that come from Guinness.

Well, not yet. But based on this article, you'll be able to enjoy Cafe a la Guinness soon enough!

World's most expensive coffee at £50 a cup comes to British stores...and it's made from cats' droppings

"It might not be to everyone's taste - and that's not just because at £50 a cup it's the most expensive coffee in the world.

The secret behind the special blend about to go on sale at an upmarket department store is that it is made from cats' droppings..."

"The bean is rare, with less than 450lb harvested each year.

The beans are extracted from the droppings of the palm civet, a cross between a cat and a monkey which lives in Indonesia.

The civets eat the soft coffee cherries, digest the fruit pulp and excrete the beans on the forest floor, because they cannot digest the beans.

Plantation workers then collect the beans, which are sold as Luwak coffee.

The civets are said to pick the best and ripest coffee berries.

It is also thought that their gastric juices may add to the flavour."

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