What is the origin of Kopi Luwak in Indonesia? why is Kopi Luwak expensive? why? what are the characteristics?

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Where is the best place to drink Kopi Luwak? Wu Xiwen, head teacher of Landai Coffee and Tea, believes that in his own experience, Indonesian civet coffee is the best, but traders import it from Indonesia, and the taste of baking in Taiwan is better than that of the country of origin.

Wu Xiwen said that the civet coffee beans sold to tourists in Bali, Indonesia, are worth US $100g, or about NT $2600 per pound, but Taiwan traders import raw civet coffee beans from Indonesia at NT $6000 to NT $8000 per kilogram. After these raw coffee beans are roasted in Taiwan, they are purchased by appointment for only NT $4000 to NT $5000 per pound.

He explained that the raw beans imported by traders in large quantities are calculated by jin, but consumers' purchases of baked products are weighed per pound, which are also musk cat beans produced in Indonesia, and the products sold to tourists in Bali are more than twice as expensive as those imported by traders to be baked in Taiwan.

Where did the civet coffee beans come from? He said that there are many theories, but most of the more common ones are that Indonesian workers inadvertently discovered that it was only because they picked up coffee beans from the excrement of civet cats, washed them, roasted them over fire for a while, ground them and brewed them in water, or boiled them, and unexpectedly enjoyed the good taste of coffee. After the news spread, businessmen vigorously promoted it.

He points out that civets will only choose mature and red coffee beans and will not eat green or undercooked coffee beans, but after all, the coffee beans are too hard to digest, and will still discharge the indigestible coffee beans. But after passing through the civets' stomach and intestines, the coffee beans have a subtle change and will have a special flavor.

Cat poop coffee beans are rare, but now in addition to wild civets, there are also captive civets. Captive civets only feed coffee fruits, changing the omnivorous habits of wild civets, and even university laboratories have developed artificial civets coffee beans.

There are many places of origin of civet coffee beans, he says bluntly, including Indonesia, where civet coffee beans were first discovered, as well as Vietnam, Malaysia, and Taiwan. Although they have been bought in Indonesia for sightseeing, the roasted civet coffee beans have a special bitter taste, scorched taste, and a special bad smell, but the raw civet coffee beans bought by traders from Indonesia are roasted in Taiwan and brewed. The bitter taste is relatively mild.

According to his analysis, although Kopi Luwak is precious and high-end coffee, it also has grades. The price certified by the Indonesian state is higher, and Indonesian civet coffee beans are indeed better than those from other producing areas. However, whether civet coffee is really better than ordinary coffee may also be judged differently according to personal preferences.

In addition to civet coffee beans, he says that elephant coffee beans are rarer and more expensive, costing NT $30,000 per pound. From another point of view, civet coffee is a story, a process, good or bad, judged by the drinkers themselves.