Are Kopi Luwak beans fake in Vietnam? how do you brew Kopi Luwak _ Kopi Luwak price list at home?

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Only 150 grams of cat poop coffee beans can be extracted from a jin of civets' feces, and there will be a 20% loss during baking. The annual global supply of these coffee beans does not exceed 400 kilograms. So, more than 80% of Kopi Luwak on the market is fake.

Civet Coffee (English: civet coffee, Indonesian: Kopi Luwak, Filipino: kape motit, kape alamid, kape mel ô, kape musang).

In Indonesian, Kopi means coffee and Luwak means civet. Kopi Luwak's natural origin and artificial farms, mainly concentrated in Indonesia's Sumatra, Java, Bali, Sulawesi and other islands, as well as the Philippines and some places, is one of the most expensive coffee in the world, with raw beans reaching US $400 per kilogram and sales reaching US $1000 per kilogram, according to US News BBC The annual output of coffee made by picking up the droppings of wild civets is only 500 kilograms in Indonesia.

Name source

Kopi Luwak is produced by the feces of Indonesian coconut civet (a kind of civet) as raw material, so it is called "Kopi Luwak". After the coffee beans are eaten by the coconut civet and fermented in its stomach, it destroys the protein and produces short peptides and more free amino acids, the bitter taste of the coffee will be reduced, and then the feces will be the main raw material. Because the coffee beans cannot be digested, they will be excreted, and after washing and baking, they will become civet coffee. Coffee critic Chris Rubin said, "the aroma of the wine is so rich and strong, and the coffee is incredibly rich, almost like syrup." Its thickness and chocolate taste, and lingering on the tongue for a long time, pure aftertaste. " [1]

Coconut civets are omnivorous animals. In addition to eating seeds, they also eat insects and snakes, birds, amphibians and reptiles [2] [3]. Therefore, the feces emitted by really wild coconut civets will be mixed with various substances. Local farmers in Indonesia catch coconut beavers to raise them and feed coffee beans to make them. But there is a difference between artificial cultivation and natural ones after all.

Evaluation by the United States

In the coffee industry, Kopi Luwak is widely regarded as a product with novelty as the selling point [4]. "the consensus in the industry is that it tastes bad," said the American Special Coffee Association (Specialty Coffee Association of America,SCAA). SCAA quoted a coffee expert as saying: "obviously, the selling point of Kopi Luwak is its story, not its quality." Using the SCAA standard, Kopi Luwak scored two points lower than the lowest score for the other three types of coffee. It can be speculated that the processing of Kopi Luwak diluted the high-quality acidity and taste and made the taste more insipid. Of course, many people also seem to regard this insipid taste as the advantage of this kind of coffee. "

Tim Carman, a food columnist for the Washington Post, commented on Kopi Luwak sold in the United States and concluded that "it tastes just like Folgers Coffee." It's like rotten, lifeless taste. It's like petrified dinosaur shit in bath water. I can't finish it. [5]

Output

The output of Kopi Luwak is very small, so it is very expensive. And the land for sale is even less. It is rare even in Indonesia of origin. Therefore, most of the Kopi Luwak sold on the market are kept artificially, and their flavor is naturally different from that of the most primitive and natural wild Kopi Luwak.

Cat shit Coffee Bean Brand recommendation

The wild cat shit coffee beans baked in Qianjie Coffee are fully guaranteed in terms of brand and quality. And more importantly, the performance-to-price ratio is extremely high, a pack of 100 grams, the price is only about 250. According to the calculation of 15 powders per cup of coffee, six cups of coffee can be made in a bag, which costs only about 4 or 50 yuan per cup, which is very cost-effective for coffee shops to sell hundreds of yuan a cup.

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