Why is the price of four of the world's most expensive coffee, civet coffee, so high?

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When it comes to Kopi Luwak, it is equated with expensive, and coffee lovers are flocking to it. The reason why these coffee beans are expensive, in addition to the low yield, is also because the enzymes released by animals during digestion can break down the protein in the coffee beans, which is the source of the bitter taste of the coffee. The fermented coffee beans also produce a unique flavor.

However, using the animal digestive system to ferment coffee beans is not just the patent of civets.

The price of sparrow shit coffee is as high as HK $1, 000 per cup.

Kopi Luwak (Kopi Luwak)

Kopi Luwak refers to the coffee made from beans discharged by civets, which originated in Indonesia. In the early 18th century, the Dutch set up coffee plantations in the Indonesian colonies of Sumatra and Java, introduced Yemeni Arabica coffee beans as an economic means to make money, and banned locals from picking and eating grown coffee fruits. Local farmers inadvertently found that civets like to eat these coffee fruits, but did not digest the coffee seeds and left them in their feces, so they collected, washed, used these coffee beans and roasted them into coffee drinks.

Kopi Luwak is a kind of expensive coffee that the public is familiar with.

Musk cats are nocturnal animals that inhabit jungle areas and generally live in subtropical areas, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and other places, the most common in Indonesia. They will only choose the most ripe and sweetest coffee fruit to eat, so the selected coffee beans have a certain guarantee. Coffee beans are fermented by intestinal bacteria in civets, and the protein of coffee beans is destroyed, reducing the bitterness of coffee beans. Shared by coffee lovers, Kopi Luwak has a strong flavor, rich and strong aroma, and will send out a unique aroma.

However, because civets are omnivores, eat coffee fruits and eat other ripe fruits, and eat less, so that the coffee beans produced by wild civets are very rare. According to Taiwanese businessmen who set up Kopi Luwak farms in Indonesia, Kopi Luwak raw beans once sold for as much as US $500 a kilogram. Now they sell for about US $200 per kilogram.

Like shit Coffee (Black Ivory Coffee)

Shit-like coffee is rarer than Kopi Luwak. During the digestion of the elephant intestines and stomach, the enzymatic action of the coffee fruit breaks down the protein in the coffee beans, so the coffee in the elephant feces is not bitter and has aromas of milk chocolate, nuts, red berries and a few spices.

Black Ivory Coffee was founded by Blake Dinkin of Canada.

The coffee brand Black Ivory Coffee was founded by Blake Dinkin of Canada. He was originally doing Kopi Luwak business in Ethiopia, but he couldn't bear to see vendors mistreating civets, but he didn't want to give up this technology of "fermenting coffee beans through animal digestive system", so he spent more than 10 years in an elephant camp in the Golden Triangle in northern Thailand. Use elephants to continue to develop animal manure coffee, and hope to return the money to workers, in order to avoid the tragedy of animal cruelty.

Elephant shit coffee costs about $1100 per kilogram, which is more expensive than Kopi Luwak and is currently available only in designated five-star hotels, no more than 20 in the world. Take the Anantara in the Golden Triangle in northern Thailand as an example. A 35-gram elephant shit coffee bean sells for 1700 baht, a discount of about HK $425.

Sparrow shit Coffee (Jacu Bird Coffee)

Sparrow poop coffee is the most expensive animal droppings coffee in the world. A coffee plantation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, attracts a bird called Jacu Bird to feed on it when it bears fruit in winter because of its organic health. Unlike Kopi Luwak, this coffee has not yet been farmed. According to comments from coffee lovers, sparrow shit coffee tastes of nuts and black pepper.

Sparrow shit Coffee comes from an organic coffee farm in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Sparrow shit coffee is expensive. A small packet is worth more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars and can only be brewed into a few cups. Each cup costs several thousand yuan.

Monkey Coffee (Kaapi Monkey Coffee)

Macaque coffee is native to India. During the coffee production period, wild monkeys choose sweet and high-quality coffee fruits in the coffee garden, and the monkey's intestines and stomach become the most natural fermentation tool for coffee fruits, and the core of the digested flesh is discharged and dropped under the trees in the garden.

In individual Indian estates, other fruit trees are planted in addition to coffee trees, so the monkeys also have many other wild fruits to eat, which give monkey coffee a rich and clean special flavor after baking. especially in the natural cream aroma and fruit nectar flavor is most obvious, and the fat thickness of coffee beans is also very rich. It is understood that the price of macaque coffee is about 50 yuan per pound.

Macaque coffee from India costs about $50 a pound.

Although animal dung coffee is rare and expensive, it does make people curious to try. However, while consuming, we should also pay attention to whether the natural ecological balance will be disturbed behind the drinking of these coffees. After all, being able to enjoy beautiful coffee is given by nature.

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