What is the difference between cat feces coffee beans and ordinary coffee beans? Why is it so expensive?

Many people may have heard of Kopi Luwak, but they may not have drunk it because it is expensive and it is one of the most expensive coffee in the world. Or some people feel dirty when they hear the name, let alone drink it. In fact, Kopi Luwak is made in Indonesia and is one of the most expensive coffee in the world. The original name of Kopi Luwak is civet coffee.

Qianjie and everyone to understand: why is it called Kopi Luwak?

Kopi Luwak was first discovered in the early 18th century, when Indonesia was colonized by the Netherlands and established coffee plantations in Sumatra and Java for the European market to develop commerce and trade. and the Dutch colonists did not allow the locals to pick and eat coffee fruits. But even so, Indonesian locals want to try their own coffee, and at this time, coffee growers find that their coffee fruits are often stolen by local civets, and they have a very good sense of smell. Therefore, they will also choose the sweetest and most delicious all-red ripe coffee fruit, but the civets' intestines and stomach cannot digest the fruit. So even if they eat the coffee fruit, it will be excreted completely.

Civets can only choose the most ripe and sweetest coffee beans, the yield is very rare, and the only ones that can produce Kopi Luwak are civets in Sumatra, but not in other parts of the world, so Kopi Luwak is very expensive. At this time, the local coffee tree growers in Indonesia collected the coffee fruit discharged from the civet, washed and baked, and found that it was more delicious and mellow than ordinary Sumatran coffee beans, which is the origin of Kopi Luwak.

Kopi Luwak, which is produced in Indonesia, is one of the most expensive coffee in the world. It costs more than Blue Mountain Coffee. Kopi Luwak is also known as civet coffee. Friends who don't know about Kopi Luwak may feel untasty and unclean. In fact, the treatment of civet coffee is to let the civet eat the ripe coffee fruit, then digest and ferment it in the body and exclude it from the outside, because it is fermented in the organism, and its taste is slightly different from that of ordinary coffee. In fact, it is not much different from ordinary coffee in essence, and now the artificial civea coffee keeps letting civets eat coffee fruits and keep them in cages in order to pursue production. So the nature is different.

What's the flavor of Kopi Luwak? Kopi Luwak is produced in Indonesia, so its flavor will naturally have a nutty pine herbaceous flavor, while the coffee beans of Sumatra in Indonesia have always been famous for their mellow, such as front street Mantenin coffee, its coffee bean flavor is shown in the herbal and earthy flavor, very distinctive, and the coffee beans eaten by civets are coffee fruits with the same flavor as Mantenin. It is fermented in animals, so it has a more fermented flavor than Indonesian Mantenin coffee beans, which can also be produced by sun treatment. As for why Kopi Luwak is delicious, the key lies in the flavor of the coffee beans themselves.

In a nutshell, Qianjie said that the flavor of Kopi Luwak is mantenin with fermented flavor. The reason why it is expensive is that wild civets use a keen sense of smell to select the most delicious coffee fruit for internal fermentation. This treatment is particularly different, and the output is also very rare, so the price is high.

What's the difference between Kopi Luwak and regular coffee?

Qianjie believes that Kopi Luwak is no different from ordinary coffee, both are coffee, and the efficacy and effect of coffee is the same. Coffee can improve our metabolism, thus improving our muscle strength performance when we exercise. Secondly, the caffeine in coffee can make us more awake and improve the endurance performance of exercise. In addition, coffee has the effect of diuresis, if facial edema. Edema can be eliminated by eating American coffee, and many stars like to drink a cup of American coffee to keep their faces in shape. But drinking too much is prone to palpitations, the elderly and high blood pressure are not recommended to drink too much coffee.

Parameters for cooking Kopi Luwak in Qianjie:

In order to better show the herbal flavor and mellow taste of Kopi Luwak, Qianjie coffee roasters roast cat poop coffee beans in 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 beans in these channels are maintained for a longer time, so that the water level drops rapidly in front of the street will generally use coarse water flow, slowly circle.

When brewing Kopi Luwak, the front street will choose the KONO filter cup, because the only exhaust part of this filter cup is the 1/4 ribs. When the water level passes over the ribs, the amount of water in the filter cup continues to rise, and the pressure increases through the weight of the water. Because the outlet is relatively small, it can extend the contact time between coffee particles and water for a longer time, as the current drives it to bring out the soluble matter more effectively. It can generally achieve the effect of high alcohol thickness expected by guests.

The parameters of Qianjie store cooking Blue Mountain No.1 are: KONO filter cup, water temperature of 88 degrees Celsius, ratio of powder to water at 1:15, 15g coffee powder, grindability (75% of standard sieve 20), 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 description: herbs, nuts, smooth, mellow taste.

Qianjie coffee brewing suggestion:

If you want to brew a delicious cup of coffee, Qianjie believes that the freshness of coffee beans is a very important part of brewing. The coffee beans shipped in Qianjie are all roasted within 5 days. The purpose of Qianjie roasting is "freshly roasted coffee", so that every guest who places an order is the freshest coffee when he receives the coffee. 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.

For coffee, you don't have to drink Kopi Luwak. Qianjie believes that there are a lot of coffee to choose from. For example, the flower and fruit aroma of Essel coffee, the sour and black taste of Colombian coffee, the nutty pine flavor of Indonesian Mantenin coffee, the citrus berry flavor of Panamanian rosy summer coffee, and so on. If you really don't know how to choose, you can first try the rations and beans in front of the street. There are eight coffee flavors from different producing areas in the front street, which are very cost-effective.

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