A probe into the production process of Musk Coffee

Muscat Coffee-comes from an Indonesian animal called Luwak. LUWAK is an arboreal wild animal commonly known as "civet" by Indonesians. Luwak likes to choose the most ripe, sweet, juicy coffee fruit in the coffee tree as food. The coffee fruit passes through its digestive system, digesting only the pulp on the outside of the fruit, and the hard coffee beans are then excreted intact by Luwak's digestive system. This digestion process, so that coffee beans have an unparalleled magical change, the flavor tends to be unique, the taste is particularly mellow, rich and round sweet taste is also unmatched by other coffee beans.

It is said that coffee farmers in early Indonesia regarded civet cats that ate ripe coffee fruits as mortal enemies, but at some point someone began to think of picking coffee beans from the civet droppings to make coffee with unique flavor. Coffee experts everywhere have tried and were amazed. Since then, local farmers spend a lot of time collecting civet droppings in the forest every day during the coffee ripening season.

Experts have two kinds of comments on this kind of coffee: one describes it as "the best in the world". It tastes so unusual that it is difficult to describe in words and words. "it is a little fishy, slightly choking and visceral, as well as a little taste of traditional Chinese medicine soup. I stayed in my mouth for a long time until the last drop." Another evaluation is quite the opposite: "it's hard to swallow, it's a complete gimmick, and it's not worth paying for stinky coffee."

According to some "experts"

This is because Luwak's digestive system destroys the protein in the coffee beans, making the coffee much less bitter and increasing the round taste of the coffee beans, he said.

The Kopi Luwak Initiative is the least produced coffee in the world. A bag of 50 grams of coffee beans costs 1500 yuan, and only 4 cups of coffee can be brewed. In other words, the price of a cup is about 400 yuan.

Pick out the undigested coffee seeds from cat droppings, remove the silver gray film of the coffee seeds, wash them with water, dry them in the sun, and stir-fry to make Luwak coffee beans.

Of course, the production of this pure wild civet coffee bean is very small, so smart Indonesians came up with the idea of captivity. Is to raise the musk cat ring and artificially feed the coffee fruit to get the coffee beans. I don't know the difference between those beans and wild civet coffee.

This year, the town of Winnie was lucky to get the "civet" coffee brought by a coffee enthusiast who does mineral business in Indonesia, and baked it himself, not to mention whether it was raised in captivity or not. The taste of Winnie Town is: it smells fishy (the smell of the soil when it rains) and the entrance has the smell of traditional Chinese medicine (just like drinking traditional Chinese medicine, but not so obviously exciting) and a little mint cool. Anyway, I don't like this thing in Winnie, even if it's worth thousands of dollars.