Comet Tail Pepper

Javanese Comet's Tails or kemukas as they are known locally are a wonderful rarity among the world of Piper (true pepper) family. Known to the west since medieval times as Piper cubeba or Cubebs, this pepper has a wonderful fresh aroma of pepper, pine and lemons.This Peppercorn is harvested by hand and then sun dried before being sold. On the tongue, Comet's Tail peppercorns exhibit a distinctly cooling menthol feeling offset by the peppery heat & a bright citrus-like sweetness.

Cubeb fruit is generally harvested before ripe and then dried. Cubeb often sold in the form of dried fruit that still has the stem, so it is often referred to as pepper caudate (tailed pepper). Cubeb seeds are white, hard and greasy.