Is Kopi Luwak really cat shit? Description of the flavor and taste of cat poop coffee beans

Cat poop coffee beans are recognized as one of the most unique and delicious luxury coffees in the world. I believe everyone's impression of cat feces coffee is expensive. Indeed, the former street coffee for example, the current front street coffee cat feces coffee beans have been removed from the shelf (no raw beans in stock), but before the cat feces coffee beans price is 100 grams 260 yuan. The price was even more expensive than Emerald Manor's green label. So why does authentic Indonesian cat poop coffee sell for such a high price? Qianjie believes that the main factor in the high price of authentic Indonesian cat shit coffee is the unusual production method.

Cat poop coffee is made from Indonesian civet droppings. Cat poop coffee is also known as civet coffee, Indonesian for Kopi Luwak. Kopi means coffee in Indonesian, and Luwak means a small ferret similar to a cat in Indonesian, which is actually a civet. But some people think it's a civet. Both are civets, the main difference is civets are mainly distributed in China, while civets are mainly distributed in Indonesia. The source of cat droppings coffee is civets, but because the number of wild civets is not large, the production of cat droppings coffee is not large, so many merchants use civets as a substitute for civets to make coffee. Civet coffee has different names in different countries. It is also commonly known as Civet Coffee, Coffee Alamid (in the Philippines) and Weasel Coffee (in Vietnam).

So how is cat poop coffee made?

A search by Qianjie revealed that the civet is an omnivorous animal, eating seeds and fruits in addition to insects, types and reptiles. Wild civets are very picky about food, so they choose only the ripenest and tastiest coffee berries. Because coffee fruit undergoes digestive movement in the cat's body, digestive enzymes will change the protein structure in the coffee, thus removing some of the bitter and sour tastes in the coffee, making the overall taste of the coffee smooth. However, even after passing through the digestive system, coffee beans still retain the pulp part, which makes the coffee sweeter.

Why is coffee so expensive?

Front Street thinks Cat Poop Coffee House is so expensive mainly because the civet's unique way of making coffee gives it its unique flavor; it requires a lot of land and time, so it can only be obtained in limited quantities. It is conceivable that the whole process requires a lot of labor and care, and the harvest process is very difficult. The second is that the quality of cat poop coffee is indeed better than ordinary coffee beans. The civets pick coffee berries roughly as much as the coffee world picks whole red berries today. Qianjie believes that manual selection can now achieve similar results, so there is no need to pursue excessive "cat shit" production form.

For example, the sun-dried red cherry in the former street is a coffee bean from Ethiopia. Why is it called a red cherry? The reason is that this coffee is produced by the Red Cherry Project. Next, Qianjie will introduce the plan to everyone. In 2007, Dutch traders in Trabocca launched the ORC (Operationa Cherry Red) red cherry project, which aims to incentivize coffee farmers to produce the best quality coffee and reward them for their efforts, including washing, semi-washing, drying and semi-drying. Local coffee farmers will carefully pick 100% ripe red coffee cherries in batches (hence the red cherry project) Trabocca provides financial support, new hardware and production processing technology to help farmers, promising excellent prices as long as the quality of the actual output and the standard of the north side of the hooch are respected. Trabocca was one of the first coffee trading companies to pursue all-red berries, and Front Street approved and supported the change. Front Street believes that the Red Cherry Project gives small farmers an extra chance to survive under the commercial monopoly of global consortia, so it also has special respect for the Red Cherry Project.

At first, the cat poop coffee trade was a good thing for biology. Because in Indonesia, civets that attack commercial orchards are generally considered pests. But when cat poop coffee became popular, the development of the kopi luwak industry encouraged locals to conserve civet cats for valuable poop. As cat poop coffee becomes more popular, randomly obtained "cat poop coffee" can no longer meet the market demand. Not only that, Indonesia has also become a tourist destination, and the purpose of tourists is to see the cat poop coffee making process. As a result, more and more civets are confined to cages on coffee plantations, partly for coffee production and partly to make money from visitors who watch them. More and more civets are being kept in narrow, unsanitary cages on coffee plantations. In addition, many civet cats do not have access to clean water for visitors to enjoy all day long, which is cruel to nocturnal animals. The health of many wild civets is problematic because they can only be fed coffee cherries, resulting in many civets being malnourished and very thin. Cat poop coffee has gradually developed into a dark industry full of inhumanity, which has brought great harm to local civets. The coffee cherries raised by merchants are definitely not high-quality coffee fruits, so the quality of cat feces coffee has declined for a while. To protect wildlife, the Rainforest Association and other coffee certification bodies issue certification labels based on Sustainable Agriculture Network standards, which prohibit wild animals from being caught on farms, and the Sustainable Agriculture Network explicitly prohibits civets in captivity in Indonesia.

Front Street's Cat Poop Coffee is one of the few cage-free civet cats that roam the coffee-rich plantations and choose what they eat, although it greatly increases the amount of work required to harvest the beans and limits the amount of cat poop coffee, but it does produce high-quality cat poop coffee in an animal-friendly way. Why not?

Of course, many people will be deterred from this coffee because of the words "feces". In fact, cat poop coffee beans are thoroughly washed and then roasted at high temperatures, both of which ensure that cat poop coffee is 100% safe to drink. Front Street Coffee uses a deep roast to amplify the dark chocolate aroma of cat poop coffee. The coffee is very smooth on the whole, there will be a sense of thanks fermentation, the front street thinks this is related to its processing method, after the civet stomach more or less will have a sense of fermentation. High body and herbal flavors and chocolate are popular with many people. Many people will legend cat poop coffee as having many effects, but the front street thinks cat poop coffee has the same effect as regular coffee.

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