The origin of Kopi Luwak? What are the taste characteristics and taste of Kopi Luwak?

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Kopi Luwak, made in Indonesia in Southeast Asia, has been named the top 10 most expensive coffee in the world. It also has a more elegant name "civet coffee", but in any case Kopi Luwak has become the town hall treasure of high-end cafes.

The Origin of the Indonesian Kopi Luwak

Kopi Luwak (Kopi Luwak) is a raw coffee bean originally extracted from the droppings of an animal called a civet on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Although the most expensive coffee has something to do with shit, it also gives Kopi Luwak an excellent taste. The civet is a wild omnivore. Locals like to call it luwak, with a pointed mouth, dark gray fur and coffee fruits that are ripe and sweet and red to comfort themselves. The pulp of the coffee fruit is digested as it passes through the civets' digestive tract, while the hard, indigestible coffee beans are excreted with excrement. Coffee beans ferment naturally in the body, creating a wonderful processing process of Kopi Luwak: when civets excrete coffee beans, their feces pass through nearby reproductive organs, and the beans are stained with musk oil secreted by their reproductive organs. as a result, there is a special level of taste. After this digestion process, the coffee bean has a magical change, the flavor is unique, the taste is particularly mellow, which is incomparable to other coffee beans.

Unique taste and taste of Indonesian Kopi Luwak

After eating the coffee beans, the civet breaks down the protein in the coffee beans, and many of the ingredients in the coffee beans have changed. Careful comparison of ordinary coffee beans, may be due to the acid corrosion of the intestinal tract of Luwak, the rugged surface of general coffee beans becomes obviously smooth, "biological energy" replaces the traditional processing technology, reducing the acid and bitterness in the original beans, so it is particularly mellow. What makes Luwak special is that when musk cats excrete coffee beans, their feces pass through the nearby genital palace. As a result, coffee beans are stained with musk oil secreted by their reproductive organs, giving them a special sense of taste.

Kopi Luwak tastes more earthy, and its consistency is closer to that of syrup. After drinking, there will still be a hint of mint cool feeling in the mouth, which is the "exclusive taste" that ordinary coffee does not have. After drinking a cup, take a deep breath or take a sip of cold water, you can obviously feel a cool breath from mouth to throat, as if you have just eaten a mint lozenge. Kopi Luwak tastes particularly mellow, rich and round sweet taste is also incomparable to other coffee beans.

How to brew Indonesian Kopi Luwak?

Pick out the undigested coffee seeds from the civet feces, remove the silver gray film, rinse them with water, dry them in the sun, and finally stir-fry to make coffee beans, so Kopi Luwak is actually very clean and hygienic. Kopi Luwak raw beans are not easy to get, so its brewing method is more fastidious.

If you want to enjoy the true taste of Kopi Luwak, it is not recommended to add sugar or milk in the coffee, Kopi Luwak brewing water temperature regulation to 96 ℃, water pressure of 9-10atm is the best, boiling about 1 minute 45 seconds ~ 2 minutes quickly remove the fire and at the same time repeatedly wipe the glass bottle with a cold wet cloth to make it rapidly cool, the brewed coffee will quickly fall and show a lot of golden fine foam, so that you can achieve the most extreme flavor. Do not stir in the brewing process of Kopi Luwak, otherwise the coffee will become bitter, sour and astringent. In the general way of brewing, some people say that civet coffee can be brewed for 2 or 3 times, but the above brewing method is regarded as the essence after boiling for a long time, so rebrewing is not recommended.

Expensive Indonesian Kopi Luwak

Since Kopi Luwak became famous, it has been expensive, and civets have become the spokesperson of Kopi Luwak. Kopi Luwak is the least produced coffee in the world, and the number of wild civets is limited. Only experienced villagers go deep into the forest can they find them and collect feces. Although people are gradually raising civets in captivity, specializing in the production of coffee beans, the global annual output is no more than 400 kilograms. A bag of 50 grams of coffee beans is worth 1500 yuan and can only be soaked in 3 Murray for 4 cups. In other words, the price of a cup is about 400 yuan. So Kopi Luwak is not something that the average customer can afford. Some people even say that after drinking Kopi Luwak, they are reluctant to brush their teeth for a few days, just hope to have more aftertaste of the round taste of Kopi Luwak.