Kopi Luwak comes from the feces of civets, like shit, coffee comes from elephant droppings.

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. Kopi Luwak this is not an ordinary cat, but a civet. It looks disgusting.

Musk cats are native to Indonesia and are found on several islands and are more common in Java. It is said that they can not be kept in captivity, so they can only be circled in a large area and then regularly designated to collect poop (is it very much like collecting matsutake), coupled with the limited quantity, the production of Kopi Luwak is also limited.

The biggest effect of coffee beans fermented by the civets' intestines is to remove the acid and bitterness, so this coffee tastes very coffee but not bitter, it is still good, and it is not expensive in Indonesia.

Why not use other animals. It's hard for the digestive tract flora of other animals to ferment coffee beans to the right level.

By the way, after the coffee bean is pulled out by the cat, it needs to be washed and processed, and the poop and the thin film outside the bean will be removed, so there is no fecal ingredient in the coffee you drink. Everyone must know this!

The civets' digestive system uniquely ferments coffee beans. But coffee beans are not digested but excreted.

Before Kopi Luwak was discovered, civets were hunted in large numbers for eating coffee fruits.

Later, after Kopi Luwak was touted as a high price. Humans also specially catch civets, keep them in cages, and let them mass-produce Kopi Luwak.

The civets who can only eat coffee fruits are extremely malnourished. The fur fell off. Nerve damage.

After not being able to mass-produce "cat shit", it was mercilessly discarded.

But because of their long captivity, they cannot survive in the wild.

One more word. In the beginning, Kopi Luwak tasted good because civets were fastidious about coffee fruits and ate well-ripe ones.

Imprisoned civets have no choice but to eat them raw and cooked. In fact, they are extremely freedom-loving creatures, imprisoned and bred, and they once went on a hunger strike, but merchants did not hesitate to abuse cats and ask for shit in order to get high-priced civet coffee.

Do you still want to drink Kopi Luwak?

Again, there is no sale, no killing.

In Indonesia, Kopi Luwak is called Kopi Luwak,kopi, which means coffee, and luwak means civet.

Kopi Luwak (kopi luwak) is a kind of kopi tahi. Tahi means excrement in Indonesian. Yes, it means Xiang.

The essence of Xiang coffee (kopi tahi) lies in three points.

1. Feed animal coffee beans, coffee beans through the digestive tract, will react with stomach acid and protease. Proteins and other substances that cause bitterness in coffee beans are partially digested.

two。 The coffee beans stayed in the stomach and intestines for more than ten hours, the warmth and moisture began to germinate, and the flavor of the coffee beans changed.

3. Wild animals will choose mature and delicious coffee beans to eat.

According to this principle, it is not so important what kind of animal is used to produce coffee beans. As long as coffee beans are metabolized in the body for a long time, digestive juices are suitable, and feces are pure and easy to collect, why stick to Maoxiang? all kinds of taste can impact your taste.

So there's like shit coffee.

Bird shit coffee

Muntjac coffee

Squirrel shit (weasel? ) Coffee