How does the name of Kopi Luwak come from? how much is it for Kopi Luwak? how does it taste?

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Muscat Coffee (Luwak Coffee), also known as Kopi Luwak, originated in Indonesia. Why is it so expensive? This has something to do with the manufacture of coffee beans. The civet eats the ripe coffee fruit, excretes it through the digestive system, and then collects and processes its excrement. The fermentation process in civets and the efficacy of digestive enzymes create a particularly thick and mellow flavor of coffee beans, which makes this kind of coffee very popular in the world.

For Musk Cat Coffee, someone said after drinking it, "with a bit of dirt, slightly choking flavor and visceral flavor, the finish is very long." Others said: "it's hard to swallow, it's a complete gimmick, and it's not worth paying for stinky coffee." The comments are polarized, but on the whole, it has the typical earthy and traditional Chinese medicine flavor of Indonesian coffee, and its consistency is also quite high. Even if it costs hundreds of dollars, some people are willing to pay for the luxury goods of the coffee world.

Coconut cats are cowardly nocturnal animals who take advantage of the night to eat ripe coffee fruits during a bumper harvest on coffee plantations. However, they cannot digest the seeds, that is, coffee beans, which are excreted in their faeces. These coffee beans have a unique taste, and when the farm workers discovered it, they began to be widely respected.

Because coconut cats are wild, the number is very rare, feces are difficult to collect, and the quality of coffee beans harvested in different periods is different, so Kopi Luwak used to be regarded as an interesting coffee treasure.

The annual output of coffee made by picking up the droppings of wild civets is only about 500 kilograms in Indonesia.

But coffee companies and coffee merchants around the world are still using the original story of coconut cats eating coffee beans on coffee farms as a gimmick to peddle Kopi Luwak. And use this scarcity to justify its high price (Kopi Luwak usually sells for $200,400 per kilogram, sometimes more). In fact, although exact figures are not available, it is possible that Kopi Luwak's annual global production is at least 50 tons, much more, according to Tony wild estimates. Now farmers in India, Vietnam, China and the Philippines have joined the production of Kopi Luwak.

The locals captured the coconut cats and imprisoned them in small cages, artificially forcing them to eat too much coffee fruit (equivalent to drinking more than 100 cups of espresso a day) and feeding large amounts of fruit pulp to speed up excretion. But even so, coconut cat farmers do not make much money, because huge profits have been swallowed up by intermediary dealers for a long time, prices are controlled by middlemen, and farm conditions are very poor. so it aggravates the miserable fate of coconut cats.

The Kopi Luwak Initiative

Also known as: Muscat Coffee

It's one of the most expensive coffee in the world.

The price per pound is as high as 3000 yuan.

Some restaurants sell a cup for as much as 600 yuan.

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