Bali Coffee Factory scam _ is there something wrong with the price of Bali gold coffee?

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The coffee factory was not on the itinerary, but I asked the tour guide to go. Indonesia is one of the coffee producing areas, and you always want to see something related to coffee when you come here.

However, I never had a decent cup of coffee in Bali. I only passed the iced cup of Hyatt afternoon tea. Maybe I didn't look for it seriously. I thought it would be easy to meet good coffee in the coffee producing area, but this is not the case. There is a simple reason to explain all this: good beans have long been marked away by foreign bean merchants at high prices. The same applies to the coffee factory that we will talk about later.

The coffee factory is located in Kimbalan District. As soon as you enter lobby, it is written "Golden Coffee Factory" and a Golden Rabbit Totem. This must be the legendary Bali Coffee Bean-Golden Rabbit Coffee (Golden rabbits).

Lao Zhang and I were the only two visitors. A Chinese commentator came and did not waste time. He quickly took us to the bean area at the end of the noodle to explain to us the process of collecting and roasting coffee beans.

If I was a non-coffee drinker, I would take everything the commentator said, but I drank coffee and read coffee books, and what he said fell 108000 miles short of my common sense from beginning to end. From the variety of beans to preservation, I thought he was talking nonsense. I didn't believe everything he said from the beginning.

He said that there are male and female beans in coffee. I saw the real thing, aren't they lentils and lentils? They pick out round beans and sell them for twice as much as lentils. Why is it twice as much? He said that only 10% of a tree is round beans, with less caffeine and scarcity, so the price is high. Round beans are mutated beans with abnormal mating genes, which should be less, but where is there low caffeine? Its shape is not directly related to its flavor, is it just because it is so round that it sells for twice the price? The round beans are singled out and sold separately because of their special shape, which is different from the baking conditions of lentils, and need to be dealt with separately, but it is rather deceiving the public by shouting prices all over the sky. In addition, I dare not compliment the samples of their beans. Whether they are round beans or lentils, they are frighteningly large, especially round beans, which are about the same size as the first knuckles of my thumb, and are so exaggerated that I even wonder what they have done. Is it true that the granules are as big as selling each other?

(photo) A "big" round bean whose color is not very uniform.

Then we were taken to a small room to try coffee. From the order in which they served coffee, we could see that they mainly played "public beans".

First of all, I would like to have a cup of "Gongdou" coffee, which is very dark in color, smells no special fragrance, tastes no layers, is not bitter or sour, not to mention sweet taste after entering the throat. If you don't like the bitterness of coffee, you must think this cup of coffee is good, but a cup of coffee is neither sour nor bitter. Why drink it? You might as well drink boiled water.

After a few sips, I didn't speak.

The second cup is "mother bean" coffee, which is a little lighter in color, but it tastes messy and messy, as if hundreds of arrows are stabbed at you at the same time, with varying degrees of astringency. It's hard to enter.

"Bean tastes better, right?" He said.

That's true. Can there be any worse coffee than this?

Finally, a woman in traditional clothes brought in two cups of coffee smoothies. The coffee mixed with sugar and milk at least reminds me of the 7-11 smoothie, which I ate as dessert.

The commentator went on to introduce the weight and price of beans. Let me put it this way. The price of their "mother beans" is equal to that of the heavy baking I bought in the coffee shop, and the price of "male beans" is twice as much.

And the heavy baking in the coffee shop tastes better than his "public beans". How can I buy it?

He also boasted that the best beans were left in the factory and sold to tourists who knew the goods. Hell-- do you take all the bean merchants for fools? Oh no-- you must have taken me for a fool.

I asked him, are there any other beans besides "male beans and female beans"? But he kept urging us to buy three pounds of "public beans". He said don't be afraid of too much. Beans can be kept in the freezer for a year and can be drunk slowly. There's a lot of nonsense--

I asked again, what do you want to do with your beans? He said to take the freshly boiled water and use a regular tea maker. Hello! Your "male bean" is heavy-baked-you want me to flush it with 90-degree water? And the net of the tea maker of the old man's tea is so big, do you want me to tell my fortune with coffee grounds? The way they bully tourists really makes me angry, but I want to know how much profit they make from selling "public beans". It's worth lying all over the world.

I turned to tell Lao Zhang that I don't want "male beans" or "mother beans". Let's buy their third product (they only sell three kinds of beans)-- Musk cat beans.

I haven't had civet coffee yet, and civet beans are the only beans that look normal (at least without exaggerated size), and that's my only option.

He looked at us suspiciously, as if to reconfirm that what we were buying was indeed civet beans, and then left the small room. Two minutes later, he walked in with a transparent sealed jar in his hand.

I asked about the baking time, and he said that civets are sold on the same day. Although I no longer have any trust in the guy in front of me, as I said earlier, civets are the only beans that look normal, and I have a damned tourist mentality, so I don't want to leave here empty-handed, so with Lao Zhang's permission, I bought 200g civets.

(photo) the musk cat beans held by the man like gold.

(photo) 200g beans are packed in a "normal" one-way breathable bag instead of other blind vacuum aluminum foil bags.

(photo) carefully packed with a guarantee.

These two hundred grams are worth US $200. It's really not cheap, my friends. Lao Zhang and I enjoyed it alone.

Postscript: I rarely get caffeine allergy and dizziness that night. According to my understanding of my constitution, they should give me R beans. The big, round beans that make me dizzy are R beans.

Author: Connie Bonnie

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