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Are you a coffee lover? You must be no stranger to the world's most expensive "Kopi Luwak" (civet coffee).

Civet coffee, also known as "Kopi Luwak", is a coffee produced from the feces of Indonesian coconut civets. After the beans are eaten by coconut civets and fermented in their stomachs, they destroy proteins and produce short peptides and more free amino acids. The bitterness of the coffee will be reduced, because the beans cannot be digested and will be excreted. After washing and roasting, the coffee becomes civet coffee.

Coconut civet is an omnivorous animal, which not only eats seeds, but also eats insects, snakes, birds, amphibians and reptiles, so the feces discharged by really wild coconut civets will be mixed with all kinds of substances. Local farmers in Indonesia catch coconut beavers to raise them and feed coffee beans to make civet coffee. However, there are still some differences between artificial cultivation and natural ones, according to the British news BBC. Kopi Luwak, which collects wild civets' droppings, produces only 500kg a year in Indonesia.

Coffee critic Chris Rubin once commented on civet coffee: "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. "

Cat poop smells bad, but Kopi Luwak smells surprisingly delicious!

Kopi Luwak (Kopi Luwak) is known as one of the ten most expensive coffee in the world. It comes from an animal called civet on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The civet is a wild omnivore. Locals like to call it Luwak. It has a pointed mouth and dark gray fur. They like to climb coffee trees and choose ripe, sweet and red coffee fruits to eat.

When the flesh of the coffee fruit passes through the civets' digestive tract, it will naturally ferment in the body, while the hard, indigestible coffee beans will be excreted with the excrement, and the feces mixed with the coffee beans will pass through the nearby reproductive organs. as a result, coffee beans will be stained with musk oil secreted by reproductive organs, adding a special level of taste.

The above wonderful processing process replaces the traditional processing technology, reduces the acidity and bitterness in the coffee beans, and gives the coffee beans a unique flavor with a particularly mellow taste. The consistency of Kopi Luwak is close to that of syrup, leaving a hint of mint cool feeling in the mouth after drinking, which is not available in general coffee, and the rich, round and sweet taste is incomparable to other coffee beans.

The number of Kopi Luwak from wild civets is limited, even if captive civets have been raised specifically for the production of coffee beans, Kopi Luwak production is still very small, so it is quite expensive. Some people will exaggerate that after drinking Kopi Luwak, I am reluctant to brush my teeth for a few days. I just hope to have an aftertaste of Kopi Luwak over and over again, which shows how fascinating it is.