The source of cat poop coffee The blood and tears story behind cat poop coffee Taste description

Kopi Luwak, one of the most expensive coffee in the world, formerly known as Musk Kopi Luwak, is produced in Indonesia. There may be a lot of coffee marked with Kopi Luwak on the market, but in fact, only Indonesia's Kopi Luwak is the real Kopi Luwak, and the Kopi Luwak from other producing areas may just be Kopi Luwak-flavored coffee. Just like Blue Mountain Coffee, there are also a lot of coffee marked Blue Mountain Coffee on the market.

The civet is an omnivorous wild animal native to Indonesia with a pointed mouth and dark gray fur. They like to comfort themselves by picking ripe, sweet, red coffee fruits. 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.

Civets are found in Indo-China, India (northeast), Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal and Kashmir, but only Sumatran civets are Indonesian civets. Musk cats mainly inhabit tropical rain forests in hills and mountains below 2100 meters above sea level, shrubs and grasses on the edge of subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests, and choose caves, soil caves or tree caves as habitat sites. The varieties of these coffee beans are generally Robusta, because the civet activities are in the middle and low elevations, so most of the coffee varieties are Robusta. Kopi Luwak production is rare in Arabica at high altitudes.

Indonesians have found that the coffee beans fermented in the civets' intestines and stomach are particularly rich and mellow, so they collect the civets' feces, filter out the coffee beans and brew them to drink. Due to the sparse yield and unique fermentation process, the flavor of coffee is very different from that of ordinary coffee. Traditionally, coffee fruit is washed or sunburned to remove the skin, flesh and sheepskin, and finally take out the coffee beans. Luwak removes coffee beans by natural fermentation in the body, so it has a special flavor.

What does Kopi Luwak taste like? Musk cats have a variety of food habits, animal foods include small beasts, birds, and so on, and plant foods include stems and leaves of Solanaceae, seeds of various figs, cloth dregs, sour berries, etc., but civets have poor digestibility of plants, so eating berries is their dessert, and their staple food is meat. Because of their poor digestion of plants, they mainly live in broad-leaved forests, bushes and farming areas of South and Southeast Asia, and these areas are suitable for the growth of coffee trees. so most of the cranberries eaten by civets are coffee berries, while civets can digest only the skin and pulp of the berries, and the kernels in the berries, that is, coffee beans, will eventually be excreted from the body. Due to the civet's habitat in the low-altitude areas of Indonesia, and the coffee breed is a very low-quality robusta beans, Kopi Luwak will have the taste of the dirt and herbs of these robusta beans. Coupled with the special treatment, the coffee is so thick that it tastes like a thin sugar, mellow and solid.

The Evolution of Kopi Luwak

At the beginning, local people picked up the droppings of wild civets in the forest, extracted undigested coffee seeds and processed them into raw beans. Due to its low yield, it has a unique way of fermentation in vivo. Later, many businessmen aimed at business opportunities and began to catch civets in captivity. Civets who were supposed to eat meat could only eat coffee berries, and the nutrients in the coffee berries could not keep the civets healthy. They believe that although coffee beans are not digested in the civet's digestive tract, strong corrosive digestive juices have corroded its surface, and there is a special protease in these digestive juices that breaks down the original protein chain of coffee beans. break down long-chain proteins into small particles to form short-chain peptides and amino acids. But in fact, because they only eat coffee berries for a long time, civets may expel the coffee beans for an hour or two after they eat them, and the coffee beans in the civets' stomach for an hour or two are not enough to produce a series of changes mentioned above. Beans are still the same beans when they are eaten, and even if there is a change in flavor, it is a little change.

Captive civet is a nocturnal animal that lives in the jungle and has a small amount of food. coffee beans produced by wild civets are very rare. more cat dung coffee can only be obtained by artificial breeding. Some bad suppliers keep the animal in a narrow, dirty cage, forcing them to continue to eat. They are on the verge of collapse, biting their companions, biting their legs, pulling blood, and dying one after another.

The coffee beans fed to the civets are not screened, so there are no high-quality beans, so the taste of coffee is conceivably not as good as the real Kopi Luwak. There are also many merchants who label their coffee Kopi Luwak, so there are many fakes.

How to cook Kopi Luwak in Qianjie?

In order to better show the herbal flavor and mellow taste of Kopi Luwak, Qianjie coffee roasted cat poop coffee beans are roasted at medium depth. The dewatering rate of medium and deep baked beans is generally higher, so the weight is relatively light, and the powder does not sink completely at the bottom when cooking, and the injected water will be absorbed immediately at the beginning, because the exhaust powder is surrounded by bubbles, and the more fresh the beans in these channels, the longer the maintenance time, so that the water level drops rapidly. I usually use thick water to circle slowly. Qianjie will use KONO filter cup to cook, because it can bring out a more round and mellow taste will be more direct.

KONO filter cup, 88 degrees Celsius water temperature, 1:15 powder / water ratio, 15g coffee powder, grinding degree (standard sieve 20 pass rate 75%), three-stage extraction.

The use of segmented extraction, with twice the amount of coffee powder water for steaming, that is, 30 grams of water for 30 seconds, and the reason for the need for steaming process is to make coffee powder can discharge the internal carbon dioxide gas, so that the latter stage of the extraction is better stable. When the small water is injected around the circle to 125 grams, the injection will be stopped until 225 grams, then the filter cup will be removed after the dripping of the filter cup, and the extraction time will be 2 minutes 39 grams. Next, pick up and shake the whole cup of coffee, then pour it into the cup and taste it.

Kopi Luwak flavor features: herbs, nuts, smooth taste, mellow.

The real Kopi Luwak is good, but Qianjie really does not recommend everyone to drink Kopi Luwak, because what you may drink is not the real Kopi Luwak, but the Kopi Luwak raised in captivity. The captivity is so cruel that it doesn't taste good. In fact, Qianjie believes that Kopi Luwak is also coffee, and coffee has the same effect. In Qianjie, there are more than 50 individual coffees from different producing areas around the world, with different varieties and different flavors. Try more other coffees and you will find that other coffees are really delicious. For example: Panamanian rosy summer coffee, Ethiopian flower-and fruit-flavored coffee, Indonesian Manning coffee and so on.

Qianjie cooking suggestion:

The variety of coffee beans is important, but the freshness of coffee beans is also important. In order to brew a cup of delicious coffee, Qianjie thinks that any way of brewing needs fresh coffee beans. Qianjie has always believed that the freshness of coffee beans has a great relationship with the flavor of coffee, so the coffee beans shipped in Qianjie coffee are all within 5 days of baking time. The purpose of Qianjie roasting is "freshly roasted coffee", so that every guest who places an order is the freshest coffee when he receives it. The bean cultivation period of coffee is about 4-7 days, so when the guest gets it, it is the time when the flavor is the best.

For those who need to be ground, Qianjie warmly reminds you that if the coffee beans are ground in advance, there is no need to raise the beans, because in the process of transportation, the pressure caused by carbon dioxide in the package can also make the coffee flavor round. so you can drink a cup of coffee as soon as you receive the coffee powder. But the coffee powder needs to be brewed in time, because the coffee powder oxidizes more quickly after contact with the air, that is to say, the flavor of the coffee will dissipate more quickly, and the flavor of the coffee is not so good. Therefore, Qianjie suggests buying whole beans, grinding and flushing now, so that we can better taste the flavor of coffee.

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