How much is a Kopi Luwak? What if the Kopi Luwak beans can't be flushed?

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A few days ago, my friend's mother went to Bali and brought two bags of Kopi Luwak. Although Fei Lao Shi has been drinking all kinds of coffee made by himself for four years, cat poop has never been touched. On the one hand, it is expensive; on the other hand, he is always a little afraid of poop beans. Third, friends or relatives have brought them to Indonesia. Basically, they are all instant coffee printed with musk. How can this be called Kopi Luwak? This time, I finally have the opportunity to borrow the authentic and original Kopi Luwak. After experiencing it, I think I can share it with you.

Since I am not a coffee professional tester, I still use a simple lazy hand test instead of a three-cup test. On the one hand, he got the flour, not the beans, and on the other hand, he did not know which manor was the source. So cup testing is meaningless, just sharing.

Conditions:

Baking degree: moderate

Ratio of gouache to flour at 1:18

The water temperature is 93 degrees.

Hand flushing time: 2 minutes and 30 seconds

Let's talk about feelings:

1. Flavor: BlackBerry, dark chocolate, woody, full-bodied

two。 Taste: mild without acid, here to say, surprisingly, when the temperature dropped to 50 degrees, there was no acid.

3. Tail rhyme: vanilla, slightly sweet

Features: I have to say, the reason why Kopi Luwak is expensive. After unpacking, the unique musk deer aroma has never been experienced in any other coffee. Throughout the brewing process, the aroma surrounds the air and goes straight through your nose without rushing. Because of the strong flavor of the protein powder under the table, there was a war between the two flavors during brewing. Kopi Luwak wins, for example, just like smelling ice cream in a hot pot restaurant and wearing thick clothes, it can't cover the sharpness of vanilla piercing. In addition, I didn't drink the earthy flavor of Indonesian coffee in this coffee, so I guess it's more likely to be fed.

The disadvantage is that what you get is not beans, and you can't get the freshest feeling. As a result, there are no bubbles during brewing, and the alcohol thickness is slightly less than that of Huang Kingman, but you can drink Manning's feeling. The original body of this potty bean should be Mantenin. I don't know whether it is a fed beaver or a wild beaver.

All right, that's the end of coffee taste sharing. There may be some friends who don't drink black coffee and don't know what I'm talking about. Let's make it a little easier to popularize.

Coffee, originally, is not a drink that gives a beautiful name. For example, cappuccino, mocha, macchiato, and now Fruibai. These are the names of coffee at a later stage, through the addition of milk and sugar and the degree of brewing. Coffee, called coffee, uses roasted coffee beans to brew and extract a black liquid.

If you want to go on, it's too long. Baidu has everything at once. Let's just talk about today's protagonist Kopi Luwak.

As the name suggests, Kopi Luwak is a musk that grows in Indonesia. After eating coffee beans, the beans are fermented in its stomach, then poop is pulled out and coffee made from coffee beans is obtained from the poop.

Because of this musk, it will choose the most ripe and sweetest coffee beans to eat. So this in itself is a kind of natural screening, and then in their stomachs, the coffee is fermented by bacteria in the gut of the civet cat. This musk beaver secretes musk smell from its own chrysanthemum, which is said to be when poop is sick. Bring this aroma to the coffee.

In Indonesia, the locals call the musk Musang rather than the Luwak as we know it, but don't be deceived by their lovely image, which is actually a very ferocious raccoon cat, very aggressive. There are at least four species of musk in Indonesia, and not all of them can produce delicious poop beans.

Due to the economic benefits, many coffee sellers keep these muskcats in captivity. Under pressure, they eat abnormally and affect the function of the intestines and stomach, and the flavor of the poop beans is much worse. In the natural environment to eat a variety of fruit insects, balanced nutrition, the discharge of strips of poop, almost can not smell the smell.

However, there are also many manufacturers who are willing to pay attention to it. At the same time, they expand the area of captivity, play music, create artificial shadows, reduce the pressure on muskcats during the day, and feed nutritious food, which can also produce Kopi Luwak with better flavor.

In short, the entrance of Kopi Luwak is full-bodied and sticky. Low-fruity, with nutty, vanilla flavor, is a fickle coffee, it is said that different people brew out, the flavor is completely different.

If it is brewed by siphon, the extraction time should not be too short, there will be earthy and miscellaneous smell in less than 40 seconds. It is best to soak for more than 50 seconds and let the aromatic compounds with low, medium and high molecular weight be extracted evenly, which can dissolve the miscellaneous smell and bubble out the charming musk flavor. Compared with siphon, the flavor of the hand flushing method I adopted will be slightly lighter, but the dirt will be greatly reduced, depending on the degree of personal preference.

All right, that's all for today's sharing!

Tips:

The treasure of Kopi Luwak lies in its wild. Civets eat every night and shit in the morning. Therefore, the wild musk Kopi Luwak is very precious. If raised in captivity, the life of a raccoon cat will be very miserable. Captivity often leads to mental breakdown.

There are also some unscrupulous businessmen, in order to find new forms of coffee, but also keep elephants, foxes, and other animals to protect animals to make coffee, these are very inhumane, and the flavor of the coffee is not very good, I hope everyone will boycott it!

In addition, the siblings of the musk deer beaver also exist in China. That is the famous masked palm civet. That is, masked palm civet who brought the SAS virus!

Finally, the original origin of Kopi Luwak. It was discovered and spread by an Indonesian coffee company. There is no way to verify the specific origin.

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