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Rare coffee now at Haas : Haas has an array of exotic and classic coffees available at the new store. -
Rare coffee now at Haas : The new coffee outlet forms part of the Haas specialty design store, which also sells a range of locally designed furnishings, ceramics, jewellery, accessories and artworks. -
Rare coffee now at Haas : An Asian palm civet which ingests the coffee beans, removing all traces of bitterness.
Fancy a sip of one of the world’s most expensive coffees? If you’ve got the stomach for it, we suggest you head to the Haas Coffee Collective in the Mother City.
A newly opened boutique roastery and espresso bar in Cape Town is selling one of the world’s most expensive coffees. The rare and naturally sweet-tasting bean makes its way to the cup through a strange process that has us wondering whether the coffee is in fact really gross or really cool…
Found in Sumatra, the Kopi Luwak bean is passed through the digestive system of the Asian palm civet, which removes all traces of bitterness. The beans are then collected, cleaned and sun dried. Sumatra is the world’s largest producer of Kopi Luwak, of which a single cup of espresso sold for £50 in a brasserie in London in 2008.
The Haas Coffee Collective, which has just opened its doors in Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap district, is selling this chocolate-caramel tasting coffee for R2 580 a kilogram, along with other exotic and favoured coffees under the Strictly Coffee label.
“We only bring in small quantities of specialty coffees such as these… because of their rarity and pricing, but we also offer other gourmet coffees that are more modestly priced,” says Francois Irvine, an established artist and designer and founder member of the Haas Design Collective.
The new coffee outlet forms part of the Haas specialty design store, which also sells a range of locally designed furnishings, ceramics, jewellery, accessories and artworks.
More information: www.haascollective.com, www.strictlycoffee.co.za
