The price of cat shit coffee beans, why can cat shit coffee beans be so expensive?

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Kopi Luwak, officially known as Kopi Luwak, comes from Indonesia. Kopi means "coffee" in Indonesian, while Luwak means Indonesian civets and coffee beans, a wild Indonesian civet called Rwaka. It is an extremely rare coffee that produces only 500 pounds a year, and a cup of 4 oz coffee sells for $168 (about 1400 yuan), many times more than Blue Mountain Coffee.

In Indonesia, there is a kind of cat called the musk cat, which is what we call masked palm civet. This kind of animal specializes in eating fat and pulpy coffee fruit in Indonesia, which is difficult to digest after eating, and then the complete coffee beans will be excreted. The local people regard the civet droppings as a gift from God, so they collect the feces from the civets and go through several processes such as selection, drying, deodorization, processing and roasting. That's how cat poop coffee beans were born.

Civet is nothing special for coffee lovers to drink a cup of Jamaica's Blue Mountain, but if you can drink a cup of Kopi Luwak (also known as civet coffee), you will have no regrets for the rest of your life. This kind of coffee is called "the most fragrant poop since there is shit". Although its name is not very elegant, it is true. It is the poop of an arboreal wild animal called "civet" on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Local farmers usually regard the discovery of "civet" feces as a gift from heaven, because not all "civets" feces can be luckily found. Once several such "coffee beans" are found, the locals will bend over and pick them up, collect them carefully, and then go through several processes such as selection, drying, deodorization, processing and roasting to produce the rarest, most unique and most expensive coffee in the world.

Why can cat poop coffee beans be so expensive?

In order to get the precious "cat poop coffee beans", the local people will catch the civets in cages and feed them themselves, while some rich coffee merchants directly contract the whole island to raise civets and let civets produce expensive cat poop coffee beans for themselves. however, they cannot be forced to eat and poop, so the coffee beans in the excrement are very precious! The raw materials of cat poop coffee beans are very rare, and the production process is also very tedious, there is a strict sanitary treatment procedure. After drying, baking, brewing and other tedious processes, the finished cat poop coffee beans will produce a very unique flavor, which is why cat poop coffee beans are expensive.

The coffee brewed from cat poop coffee beans is so thick that there will be a hint of peppermint flavor in the mouth. Some coffee experts call Kopi Luwak beans the best in the world.