Is Kopi Luwak good? how does Kopi Luwak taste different?

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The land of Sumatra Islands in Indonesia is far from the hustle and bustle, with plenty of sunshine all the year round, pure air, suitable humidity and fertile soil. Because of its unique geographical environment and mild climate, the ecological environment of Sumen waxing Islands has been well protected. Sumatra runs northwest-southeast, intersects the equator in the middle, and consists of two areas: the Barisan Mountains Mountains in the west and the marshes in the east. The western half of the mountain runs through the steep Barisan Mountains, stretching from northwest to southeast, stretching 1600 kilometers (1000 miles). There are more than 90 volcanoes, of which the highest peak, Mount Kerinci, is 3800 meters (12467 feet) above sea level. To the east of the mountains are alluvial plains, wide in the south and narrow in the north, with a widest point of more than 100 kilometers. There are many rivers, such as the Moussi River, the Batamhari River, the Indra Jiri River, the Gamba River and so on. The pollution-free primeval forest has given birth to a high-quality variety of Arabica coffee, and the fruit is particularly full-bodied, round and full-bodied.

On the island of Sumatra, there is a small animal that can secrete musk, the musk ferret (LUWAK), like a gourmet of the animal kingdom. Ripe, sweet, juicy coffee fruit is one of their favorite foods. This limited number of animals in the world, with an unusually keen sense of smell, choose the most delicious and abundant coffee fruit on the coffee tree to comfort themselves. The coffee fruit passes through the musk's digestive system, the skin and flesh of the digested knowledge fruit, and the hard coffee beans are excreted out of their bodies intact. This digestion process, so that the coffee beans have an unparalleled change, the flavor is even more unique, the taste is particularly mellow, rich and round taste is also unmatched by other coffee. That's because the musk's digestive system destroys the protein in the coffee beans, which is much less bitter than coffee, adding to the round taste of the coffee beans. The musk weasel has a musk gland near its genitals, so the coffee beans are covered with a faint scent.

Kopi Luwak not only takes advantage of the peeling and degumming of civets, which naturally like to eat coffee beans, but also choose coffee fruits whose skin is red and fully ripe (which is consistent with the need to pick fully ripe coffee fruits for high-quality coffee). In addition, the coffee fruit is in the civets' intestines and will experience the fermentation of civets' intestinal flora at appropriate temperature and humidity. Therefore, it can promote the balance of the overall aroma components of late-roasted coffee, which is precisely the view of the researchers of the National University of Singapore in their paper. In addition, the civet has an aromatic glandular sac in its body, which will increase the aroma of coffee to a certain extent. But at present, the Kopi Luwak on the market basically comes from captive civets, which are obtained by feeding coffee beans and then collecting and processing them.

How is the taste of Kopi Luwak different from that of ordinary coffee?

The National University of Singapore once published a research paper on Kopi Luwak, which thought that Kopi Luwak tastes better than regular coffee. The authors found that Indonesian Sidikalang Kopi Luwak is more popular than the other three coffee because of its good balance of overall flavor, although its flavor is similar to that of ordinary Sidikalang coffee. Doi Chang coffee from Thailand and Yunnan coffee from China have a unique sulfur flavor because the sulfur compounds of these two coffee reach 8.32 mg/kg and 12.63 mg/kg respectively. Sulfur taste is particularly important for coffee quality. Half of good coffee is near the crater. Volcanic rocks are rich in sulfur, and sulfur compounds can produce a lot of coffee flavor.