How is the story of expensive cat shit coffee red? How many types of coffee are there?

A few days ago, an article about the laxative effect of coffee in the coffee workshop mentioned the two elements of poop and coffee. Today, I would like to overlap these two elements and talk about something else.

Seriously think about it, cute cats like smelly shoes is abnormal, so people like to drink "poop coffee", is not more abnormal than cats?

What exactly is the processing process behind this kind of coffee coming out of the digestive tract of animals? It is different from the sun, water washing, half-washing and half-sun that we are most often exposed to.

This kind of coffee beans is fermented in vivo, using lactic acid bacteria and digestive juices in the digestive tract of animals to remove the pulp of coffee cherries and pectin attached to the surface of shell beans.

Musk cat coffee

Arabica coffee was introduced as a cash crop in the 18th century when Sumatra and Java were part of Dutch colonies in the eastern Indonesian islands.

Planters in the Netherlands forbid local workers to taste the fruits of their labor. However, the bright eyes of the locals saw that some civets would steal the coffee cherries they had harvested, and eventually the coffee beans were excreted with their feces and remained the same.

So they washed the coffee beans, baked them and boiled and tasted them.

So Kopi Luwak used to be the coffee of the poor. What finally brought Kopi Luwak into public view was a 1981 National Geographic article that caught the attention of a man named Tony Wild, who works for Taylors of Harrogate, a British company that specializes in tea and coffee. He first bought a kilogram of Kopi Luwak locally, and then found the local media, but it was never expected that the media coverage of such curiosity made Kopi Luwak popular.

People who have tasted Kopi Luwak say it has a nutty, herbaceous flavor, but also a touch of dirt, and the coffee liquid is smooth, sticky and mellow.

Monkey coffee

According to Han Huaizong's introduction to monkey dung coffee in World Coffee, coffee gardens in India were plagued by macaques as early as the 19th century. Macaques specialize in choosing the most mature, sweetest and highest quality coffee cherries, causing a lot of losses to local farmers. On the other hand, when macaques eat coffee cherries, they will chew them. After chewing, they will spit out the remaining fruit and shell beans.

It is said to cover the entire flavor wheel, from citrus to nut cocoa, and the taste is sticky and sour.

Black ivory coffee

At an Asian elephant base in Thailand's Golden Triangle, breeders feed elephants with coffee and cherries mixed with other fruits. The enzymes in the elephant break down the protein in the beans during digestion, and the coffee fruit enters the elephant and is digested for 15 to 70 hours and then excreted with the digestive residue of other foods.

According to Han Zonghuai's book World Coffee, an elephant shelter in Sri Lanka also had a whim to make elephant dung coffee, but there was no sign of it.

Some foreign netizens said that black ivory coffee has the flavor of malt, chocolate, flower, cherry, tobacco, leather, and even a hint of grass!

Bird dung coffee

Because Indonesia's civet coffee is popular all over the world, Brazil is not willing to lag behind. It is said that the owner of Camochin Manor in Esp í rito Santo, Brazil, woke up one morning in 2009 to find a fleshy Phoenix-crowned pheasant invading his coffee plantation. he had to sit by and watch the birds pick delicious red fruit under their mouths. so he came up with the idea of using organic treatment.

Unlike omnivorous animals such as musk cats, because the Phoenix-crowned pheasant is a herbivore, coffee beans are less likely to catch a peculiar smell.

After the shell beans are excreted out of the body with poop, someone picks up the poop to wash the shell beans, which can only be sold after three months of storage.

Tom Owen, a boutique bean expert, commented on the cup: low sour, muggy, nutty and sweet, with a hint of black pepper.

Bat coffee

Bat coffee beans come from a species of bat in the forest around Tevesa Manor in the Brenka region of southern Costa Rica. However, bats are too small to swallow whole coffee cherries, so they just bite off the shell of mature coffee fruit and lick the pulp to suck the pulp to get the sugar inside. The rest is wrapped in saliva and left on the coffee tree to ferment and dry naturally.

The above kinds of coffee are remembered by the world because of curiosity, and they are targeted because of curiosity. Being locked up is either eating or pulling. Imagine being stared at defecating. Are you nervous? It's OK to taste fresh, but if you drink it for a long time, the rose summer tastes better, don't you think?

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