World's First Flying Hotel - Hotelicopter

Announcing the world’s first flying hotel! Welcome to The Hotelicopter. Experience the adrenaline rush of taking off and flying high in the largest helicopter ever produced.

The Hotelicopter features 18 luxuriously-appointed rooms for adrenaline junkies seeking a truly unique and memorable travel experience.

Each soundproofed room is equipped with a queen-sized bed, fine linens, a mini-bar, coffee machine, wireless internet access, and all the luxurious appointments you'd expect from a flying five star hotel. Room service is available one hour after liftoff and prior to landing." The Hotelicopter is due to fly maiden journey this summer(June 26th) with an undisclosed price..

According to the stories, the Hotelicopter is modelled on an old Soviet Mil V-12 helicopter and features 18 luxuriously-appointed soundproof rooms complete with queen sized beds, wireless Internet and room service.

As you might have guessed, the experience on board the Hotelicopter is far from your standard Motel 6. This gigantic flying Titanic machine features everything you would expect from a 5-star hotel—from private entertainment systems and room service to extras like spa treatments, yoga classes, gaming and a tea garden.

If you were wondering just how big and powerful this flying hotel really is, check out the specs:

* Dimensions Length: 42 m (137 ft)
* Height: 14m (45 ft)
* Maximum Takeoff Weight: 105850 kg (232,870 lb)
* Maximum speed: 255 km/h (137 kt) (158 miles/h)
* Cruising speed: 237 km/h (127 kt) (147 miles/h)
* Original Mi Range: 515 km (320 mi)
* Our augmented Mi Range - 1,030 km (640 mi)

 

 Obviously, only the affluent need apply—but anyone that is interested can head on over to the Hotelicopter website to get more info about setting up a reservation. 

Most expensive coffee in the world is made from animal poop - Kopi Luwak

 Good coffee is for many a life-elixir, already its aroma has a stimulating effect on us. Not surprisingly that a good coffee brand, for example Blue de Brazil or Peruvian Gold from South America has its price. One variety of coffee however, is special due to its taste, its method of production and the relatively low amounts that can be generated because of that, and its price: From the isles of Indonesia, to be precise from Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi, comes the coffee brand Kopi Luwak. Only 230 kilogram per year of this coffee are produced, which explains the price of about 700 US$/kg or US$50/- per cup

 The secret of the taste of Kopi Luwak: Palm civets act as biofermenters. They eat the coffee beans and excrete them undigested. 

The palm civet as biofermenter

The palm civet paradoxurus lives on the isles of Indonesia. Since one of its preferred habits is to climb up the coffee trees in order to eat the especially ripe coffee beans, the palm civet was considered first as a pest for the crop and therefore as a plague for the locals who live from coffee. The palm civet however, cannot digest the coffee beans and excretes them more or less unchanged. The so processed beans could be easily collected from the ground. After peeling away the outer shell and roasting the inner nucleus it was realized that enzymes in the digestive system of the palm civet must have changed the taste of the beans in a unique way. Apparently, certain bitter tasting ingredients were extracted from the beans, and also certain proteins contained in them might have been degraded by proteases in the digestive tract of the palm civet

 

The taste of Kopi Luwak

You have read correctly: the most expensive coffee beans in the world goes from the coffee tree first through the digestive system of the palm civet and only then to the roastery. But connoisseurs of Kopi Luwak are raving: The coffee has a unique full aroma with a sirup like chocolade taste. Since for the production of Kopi Luwak the elaborate collaboration of the cibet cats is necessary and the actual manufacturing process does not agree with everyone's taste, researches currently try to imitate the fermentation process in the laboratory. It is hoped that one could use bacteria present in milk - a technique that is already in use as the so-called wet process for some varieties of coffee. If this would be successful, Kopi Luwak certainly would become available much more broadly to a considerably reduced price, on the other hand the world would loose a unique manufacturing process for a coffee

If I were to ask you: what is the most exotic thing you have ever had? What would your answer be?

 

 

Meet the cat  & Beans :)

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