I think you meant civet?
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Everybody calm down.
I am pretty sure what was meant is „monkey coffee“ (poop or spit) where coffee beans pass through (parts of) monkey’s digestive systems. Sad but true.
And now back to regular programming.
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As I just said, I think you mean civet.
I think civet poop coffee beans have a 19% tariff.
-Al
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What
Firstly, there is no such thing.
Secondly, he said “harvest”. If you know anything about wine, you should know harvesting does not mean eating grapes. The same laws apply to harvesting coffee berries.
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Google civet coffee. It was mentioned above twice.
I am well aware of kopi luwak - and that it is more a gimmick than a well-respected curiosity among coffee geeks.
However, civets are primitive relatives to cats, not monkeys. There is no “monkey poop” coffee. That’s why Andrew’s “send your monkeys out to harvest the beans” made my eyebrows rise well above my already too big forehead.
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Oh goody, a Jonathan versus Otto showdown! 
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I never miss a good opportunity! cracks knuckles
You know I thought the same thing when I wrote it and I thought to myself: I don’t think anyone would be dense enough to misconstrue some derogatory meaning here. And yet we found two of you! 
So I got the animal wrong. I was also thinking about Lord Monkey Fist from Kim Possible who trained monkeys to do his bidding.
Note, one has to allow some time for civet to process, can’t be rushed.
-Al
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Hmph. Kim Possible…well at least we know now.
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Please can’t we talk about Malabar coffee… or… [gasp]…wine tariffs?
Coffee tariffs for a compromise?
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No surprise, I’m sure that’s what you had in mind. Thinking hasn’t been one of your strengths, didn’t change.
Coffee time here, apparently jr high all over again for the 
as well (minus bean harvest) 
Coffee Berserkers is that site where coffee lovers ask each other what coffee to drink with various foods and in various occasions and everyone harrumphs “you can’t drink coffee with that.”
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Hold on.
I vividly remember a tabloid headline about this, and that Elton John was a fan. So it‘s true.
Tariffswise, it would be more economic to bring in whole beans and strike a deal with a local zoo to finish the process under local tax jurisdiction.
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The forum where Bizarro Larry interrogates people about what type of wine they drink.
Since Otto agrees it’s a thing, there’s nothing to argue about. I leave to others policing the word civet, which I use only as a cooking term. And, as someone who buys ground beans in the supermarket and brews them in a French press, I regard with amusement the whole debate and fail to see how it declined into hissing and spitting.
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I think this isn’t behind a paywall.