How did Kopi Luwak come from? how does Kopi Luwak brew? the way Kopi Luwak is made.

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Have you ever heard of Kopi Luwak (Kopi Luwak)? This coffee name, which sounds a little strange, means "civet coffee" in Indonesian, because things are rare and have a reputation for dreamy coffee. But what kind of coffee is this?

Kopi in Indonesian Kopi Luwak means coffee, while Luwak is a civet of the same kind as White-nosed Heart (or masked palm civet). Kopi Luwak translates directly, meaning "civet coffee". Coffee, which sounds like a wonderful name, was actually born under a very special process.

Wild Indonesian musk cats only pick old ripe coffee fruits to eat!

In coffee farms in Indonesia, it is common for ripe coffee fruits to be eaten by wild civets. Civet cats only choose fully ripe sweet coffee fruits to eat, but they can only digest the flesh, and the indigestible seeds are excreted with feces attached to the endocarp. The civet coffee can be made by taking the seeds from the civet feces, washing them and removing the endocarp.

Musk Kopi Luwak (Kopi Luwak;Civet coffee)

Musk Kopi Luwak is made from undigested coffee seeds in the feces of Indonesian coconut cats (a kind of civets), so it is also known as Kopi Luwak or civets (Kopi Luwak, Indonesian Kopi means coffee and Luwak is civets). In the United States, it is called Civet coffee or cat poo coffee, and it is one of the most expensive coffee in the world.

The coconut cat's main food source is ripe coffee fruit. After the eaten berries are digested and fermented in the coconut cat's stomach, the protein is destroyed, producing short peptides and many free amino acids, which can reduce the bitterness of coffee beans. Because coconut cats only pick ripe fruits to eat, there will be no unripe coffee beans.

Coffee critic Chris Rubin once gave a good comment ── "the wine is so rich and strong, the civet coffee is incredibly rich, almost like syrup, its thickness and chocolate taste, and lingering on the tongue for a long time, pure aftertaste."

Because musk Kopi Luwak is expensive, some unscrupulous producers obtain raw materials in a very inhumane way. The media have revealed that some Indonesian shops are suspected of abusing the coconut cats used to produce Kopi Luwak, keeping them in narrow cages and desperately feeding coffee fruits to increase production, urging people not to buy musk Kopi Luwak.

Maybe when some people hear about Kopi Luwak for the first time, they feel as incredible as editors, but in fact, it is not also an evolutionary strategy for plants to survive, expand their territory, and reproduce the next generation.

Vietnam Kopi Luwak

In the highlands and mountains of central and western Vietnam, there is a kind of mink that likes to pick the red coffee fruit, especially in the coffee fruit ripening season, the male mink will use the early morning time to choose the target first, and then take the female mink and son mink to pick the fruit together at night, each picking time is about 2 ∼ 3 hours, 2 hours later, the minks will begin to excrete the indigestible coffee beans. The locals will pick up the droppings of these minks, wash them thoroughly, screen for coffee beans, and then dry them naturally in the sun. These coffee beans have a rich flavor similar to that of caramel or chocolate.

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