The origin of Indonesian Kopi Luwak popular science-is Kopi Luwak Arabica beans or Robota beans?

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Jack Nicholson plays a rich man with cancer in the movie "The Bucket List". He always sets up a distilled coffee machine in the ward, sometimes sarcastically satirizing the blue-collar Morgan Freeman (Morgan Freeman). Once he drinks Kopi Luwak, Freeman tells the allusion of Kopi Luwak while he is drinking. Jack listens to the origin of the most expensive coffee he drinks. Can not help but "spray coffee" (Chinese people spray tea, spray rice … ), "you're shitting me." It means "you're kidding me", but it literally means poop, which has a lot to do with the humor in the coffee making process. Two people roared with laughter!

You may have heard of the extremely expensive "Kopi Luwak". The original meaning is that after the wild civets swallow the coffee fruit, the coffee particles cannot be digested, so they are excreted along with their droppings. The fruit growers collect and wash them and make them into 'Kopi Luwak'. Because things are scarce, the price is high.

(Indonesian farmers pick their own coffee beans)

Kopi Luwak has more Sulawesi in Sumatra, Jawa and Sulawesi of the Indonesian archipelago.

The Philippines is called Motit Coffee and Kape Alamid according to different regions.

East Timor is locally known as Kafe-Laku.

Vietnam is called Weasel Coffee (Weasel: weasel).

(the farmer chose the coffee beans himself.)

Kopi Luwak Kopi Luwak from Indonesia (Indonesian: Kopi Coffee / Luwak civet).

The United States is called Civet coffee or cat poo coffee Kopi Luwak.

The civet eats the cherry coffee on the tree, and the coffee excreted after passing through the digestive tract is called Kopi Luwak.

Then feed it to the civet to collect its poop. )

Wild muskcats in Indonesia like sweet and red coffee, so they pick it carefully and eat it.

But because of the civet's constitution, coffee beans cannot be digested and excreted from the body.

Originally, the farmer only washed his poop and sifted out the coffee beans before baking, but the taste was very different. Wild civets have limited poop, making this caffeine the most expensive coffee in the world.

The point is that "civets can pick out top coffee beans", and the small amount is worth cherishing, not because of the process of digesting the civets' intestines and stomach.

However, today's coffee farms in Indonesia have evolved to manually pick coffee fruits, then feed them to farmed civets, and then collect their excreted coffee beans, instead putting the cart before the horse.

Musk cat poop (gold) can also become Indonesia's authentic "gold".

Indonesian civets are now kept in captivity, not in the wild. Even the coffee beans are artificially fed, and the cats don't pick them out by themselves. (speechless)

Collect civet poop.

I hope you're not eating when you read this. (the picture above proves that civets can't digest coffee beans.)

Then wash, dry, bake, and complete the "Kopi Luwak".

There are pictures of civet printed on the outside of the coffee can. I have seen that there is also a gift box packed, and there is a "civet poop specimen" next to the coffee beans as a souvenir to the guests. (I'm dizzy.)

The civet (because of its natural talent, it was then bred artificially and began the "labor career" of eating coffee beans all its life)

Look at the mud, there is even a direct purchase of vacuum packaging of "poop raw beans" …...

(maybe the merchant bought it back and packed it and then mixed it with other coffee beans and sold them at a high price. I guessed it. )

Kopi Luwak Kopi Luwak from Indonesia (Indonesian: Kopi Coffee / Luwak civet).

The United States is called Civet coffee or cat poo coffee Kopi Luwak.

The civet eats the cherry coffee on the tree, and the coffee excreted after passing through the digestive tract is called Kopi Luwak.

Civets are naturally nocturnal animals, and they often go to coffee gardens to eat coffee cherries, thus affecting the coffee harvest. Not every farmer knows the value of Kopi Luwak, so they are often killed in many places.

Civets are easy to get close to people, and they can often be seen climbing on the roof of their homes in Bali.

Most wild civets live in trees, using their keen sense of smell to find ripe tropical fruits and favorite foods. They are omnivorous animals, mainly mature fruits and seeds, and also eat insects and snakes. Therefore, the stools emitted by really wild Kopi Luwak will be mixed with all kinds of substances.

Civets naturally choose the most ripe and sweetest fruits, so they eat ripe red coffee cherries, including coffee pulp and beans.

Coffee cherries are not digested in the stomach, and the enzymes in the civet's digestive tract combine with coffee beans, destroying the protein, thus reducing the bitterness of the coffee.

The coffee beans are indigestible, so they are excreted. The beans are still covered with sheepskin. After washing, drying and baking, they become Kopi Luwak.

Because things are scarce, Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world. Generally speaking, the price you can buy in Indonesia is more than NT $1 million, or about NT $3, 000. The most expensive coffee in the world is said to be the most expensive in Britain. )

Sumatra is a well-known wild and captive Kopi Luwak producing area.

It is said that most of the wild Kopi Luwak in Sumatra is grown in Arabica, and most of it is coffee from old trees, but some of the Kopi Luwak are fed a mixture of robusta and Arabica beans, or even all of them.

Is it delicious or hard to swallow?

It is said that experts who have tasted this kind of coffee have gone to two extremes in their comments on its taste. One describes the coffee as "the best in the world". The taste is so unusual that it is difficult to describe in words and words: "with a bit of dirt, slightly choking taste and visceral taste, it won't go away in the 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."

Baked Kopi Luwak

Coffee experts say that most Luwak coffee comes from low-altitude robusta beans, suggesting that civets prefer robusta beans to Arabica beans at higher altitudes. Indonesian coffee itself has the taste of earth and traditional Chinese medicine, and its consistency is also the highest in all continents, but Luwak coffee has a better taste and consistency, especially with a consistency almost close to syrup, and its flavor is very special (if it can be described by fragrance. ). So, if you don't like the taste of Indonesian coffee in the first place, it's certain that you will hate Luwak coffee more; but if, on the contrary, you like the fishy smell of aged Indonesian beans or Indian-style beans, you may fall in love with Luwak coffee with similar flavor.