Where did cat shit coffee beans come from? Why is Kopi Luwak so expensive?

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Civet Coffee (Kopi Luwak), also known as Kopi Luwak, is made by the civet who eats the coffee fruit and discharges the beans intact. People extract the beans from its feces and process them.

Produced in Indonesia, the coffee is currently one of the most expensive in the world, costing as much as a few hundred dollars per pound. The civet eats the ripe coffee fruit and excretes it through the digestive system. Due to the fermentation of the stomach, the coffee produced has a special taste and has become a hot product in the international market.

The source of civet coffee

Muscat Coffee (Kopi Luwak), Kopi (Indonesian, coffee), Luwak refers to an arboreal wild animal called "civet" by Indonesians.

Kopi Luwak, produced in Indonesia, is one of the most expensive coffee in the world. Indonesia grows a lot of coffee crops, including wild animals called civets, omnivores, pointed mouths and dark gray fur. The favorite food is fresh coffee beans, which are fermented and digested in the body and eventually excreted by cats. Feces are grains of coffee beans and become the most expensive feces in the world. Because the quantity is very rare, so the price is very expensive. Civets are found in Indo-China, India (northeast), Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal and Kashmir, but only Sumatran civets, or Indonesian civets, can produce Kopi Luwak.

After civet droppings are processed and roasted, Kopi Luwak has become a luxury coffee drink and spread to luxury kingdoms around the world. Local coffee farmers, in pursuit of high profits, bring wild civets home to raise them so that they can produce more Kopi Luwak. However, the Kopi Luwak produced by breeding civets will be much worse in color and taste. Even so, the output of this kind of coffee is still very rare, and it is not affordable for all people who like coffee.

The coffee comes from the excrement of an animal called the civet (commonly known as the civet in Indonesia). Although it comes from smelly poop, it is full of sweetness and a burst of indescribable sweetness. This wild musk cat likes to eat fat and pulpy coffee fruits, but the hard hard nuts (raw beans) are indigestible and are excreted with feces. After being cleaned, they become Kopi Luwak coffee raw beans! So many people call it "cat shit" coffee. The Indonesians found that the coffee beans fermented by the civets' intestines and stomach are particularly thick and mellow, so they collect the civets' feces, sift out the coffee beans and brew them to drink. Because the yield is rare and the fermentation process is unique, the flavor is very different from that of ordinary coffee. Traditionally, coffee fruit is washed or sun-treated to remove the peel, pulp and sheep skin, and finally take out the coffee beans. However, Luwak uses natural fermentation in the body to remove the coffee beans, so it has a special flavor.

It is said that coffee farmers in early Indonesia regarded civet cats that ate ripe coffee fruits as mortal enemies, but at some point someone began to think of picking coffee beans from the civet droppings to make coffee with unique flavor. Coffee experts everywhere have tried and were amazed. Since then, local farmers spend a lot of time collecting civet droppings in the forest every day during the coffee ripening season.

Because the Kopi Luwak Initiative is the least productive coffee in the world, a bag of 50 grams of coffee beans is worth more than 800yuan, and only 5 cups of coffee can be brewed. In other words, the price of a cup is about 200 yuan. The annual output of the wild is no more than 400 kilograms. "scarcity is precious", which leads to the high price of Kopi Luwak, a rare treasure. So Kopi Luwak is very expensive.