Where does Kopi Luwak come from? what kind of cats are there? what's the difference between Vietnamese Kopi Luwak and Indonesian flavor?

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Kopi Luwak, produced in Indonesia, is one of the most expensive coffee in the world. Indonesia grows a large number of coffee crops. On the island of Sumatra, a kind of arboreal wild animal called "musk cat" likes to eat fat and paddled coffee fruit. Coffee beans are fermented and digested in its body, but the hard hard nuts cannot be digested. As the feces are excreted, the feces become grains of coffee beans and become the most expensive dung in the world.

This kind of coffee is also called "the most fragrant poop since there is shit". Although its name is not very elegant, it is true. The coffee beans fermented by the civets' intestines and stomach are particularly thick and mellow. The locals collect the civets' feces, sift out the coffee beans, and go through several processes such as selection, drying, deodorization, processing and roasting to produce the rarest, most unique and most expensive coffee in the world. Because of the unique fermentation process, the flavor is very different from that of ordinary coffee. For those who have tasted Kopi Luwak, some people say it is the best in the world, while others avoid it, because Kopi Luwak has a unique rustic flavor that not everyone can stand. Although it is the best, but willing to spend hundreds of yuan to drink a cup of Kopi Luwak, it depends on personal preference.

Vietnam's "Kopi Luwak"

In the early days, minks in Vietnam liked to eat the coffee beans that tasted the most ripe and delicious, but the mink could not digest the coffee beans by itself, so it secreted some special digestive enzymes to discharge them. the next day the coffee workers will wash the mink's stool to find the whole coffee beans, wash and dry them with cream to bake them, and finally produce coffee that tastes like chocolate. This is "mink coffee". Because of its special range, sparse output and high demand, it is rated as the most advanced coffee in the world together with Indonesian musk coffee.

Vietnam TRUNG NGUYEN "Central Plains" coffee is numbered from 1 to 9, No. 8 is the top "Kopi Luwak" in the coffee.

Kopi Luwak is not suitable for dripping.

Kopi Luwak do not use dripping, it is recommended to use air stopper. The method of use is as follows:

1. Add 160,180ml (ml) of pure water and pour 17g (grams) of 2 flat spoons of coffee powder.

two。 After the water rolls up, press the raised coffee powder gently with flat bamboo slices, remember, do not stir, otherwise the coffee will become bitter, sour and astringent.

3. The water temperature is 96 ℃, the water pressure is 9-10atm, boil for about 1 minute 45 seconds ~ 2 minutes, quickly remove the fire source and wipe the glass bottle with a cold wet cloth to make it cool rapidly, the brewed coffee will quickly fall and show a large number of golden fine foam, so that the ultimate flavor can be achieved.

In addition, in the general way of brewing, some people say that Kopi Luwak can be soaked 2 or 3 times, but the above brewing method is regarded as the most essence after boiling for a long time, so rebrewing is not recommended.