Kopi Luwak | where does the fragrance of Vietnamese Kopi Luwak come from? introduction to the flavor and taste of Kopi Luwak

Indonesian coffee is mainly made of pine, herbs and nuts, while Kopi Luwak is more fermented than Indonesian coffee. Kopi Luwak is expensive because it is rare and expensive because it is special, so there will be a lot of coffee marked with cat poop flavor on the market. Now there are more Vietnamese Kopi Luwak on the market. What kind of coffee is this?

The real Kopi Luwak comes from Indonesia. Indonesia-"Thousand Island country", is the country with the largest number of islands in the world, with more than 17000 islands, large and small, scattered in the volcanic belt of the equator, more than 100 active volcanoes, more than 300 ethnic groups, and extremely rich national culture. In Indonesia, in addition to the romantic honeymoon resort-Bali, holiday paradise-Mindan Island, there is also Indonesian coffee, the famous "Mantenin Coffee" is from Indonesia. In Indonesia, there are five major coffee producing areas, and the coffee produced has its own characteristics. The topography of Sumatra is long and narrow. The topography of Sumatra is mainly from northwest to southeast of the island's Bali Mountains Barisan Mountains and the eastern lowlands. The mountains stretch, with more than 90 volcanoes and many volcanic lakes, volcanoes provide fertile soil suitable for coffee growth. For the tropical rain forest climate, high temperature and rainy all the year round. Coffee from Sumatra includes Arabica and Robusta, which is usually grown at high altitudes in the mountains, while robusta is grown in the lowlands.

Kopi Luwak

The original name of Kopi Luwak is "Coffee Musk", and its official name is "Kopi Luwak". Kopi means "coffee" in Indonesian, and Luwak refers to a wild animal called "civet". The origin of civet coffee can be traced back to the colonial era in Indonesia, when the Dutch government banned local people from eating and roasting coffee in the coffee garden, but accidentally found that the coffee beans discharged by the wild civets after eating in the garden had a completely different taste.

Kopi Luwak (Kopi Luwak) is a raw coffee bean originally extracted from the droppings of an animal called a civet on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Although the most expensive coffee has something to do with shit, it also gives Kopi Luwak an excellent taste. The civet is a wild omnivore. Locals like to call it luwak, with a pointed mouth, dark gray fur and coffee fruits that are ripe and sweet and red to comfort themselves. The pulp of the coffee fruit is digested as it passes through the civets' digestive tract, while the hard, indigestible coffee beans are excreted with excrement. Coffee beans ferment naturally in the body, creating a wonderful processing process of Kopi Luwak: when civets excrete coffee beans, their feces pass through nearby reproductive organs, and the beans are stained with musk oil secreted by their reproductive organs. as a result, there is a special level of taste. After this digestion process, the coffee bean has a magical change, the flavor is unique, the taste is particularly mellow, which is incomparable to other coffee beans.

After eating the coffee beans, the civet breaks down the protein in the coffee beans, and many of the ingredients in the coffee beans have changed. Careful comparison of ordinary coffee beans, may be due to the acid corrosion of the intestinal tract of Luwak, the rugged surface of general coffee beans becomes obviously smooth, "biological energy" replaces the traditional processing technology, reducing the acid and bitterness in the original beans, so it is particularly mellow. What makes Luwak special is that when musk cats excrete coffee beans, their feces pass through the nearby genital palace. As a result, coffee beans are stained with musk oil secreted by their reproductive organs, giving them a special sense of taste. The civets' digestive juices and digestive enzymes do seep into the coffee beans. These digestive juices and digestive enzymes contain catalytic enzymes that can break off large protein molecules, form short peptides and a variety of free amino acids, and promote Maillard reaction during stir-frying. Form a variety of new flavors. Because the taste of coffee is affected by protein composition, it is proposed that the changes in the number and type of proteins in the civets' intestines are the main reasons for the special aroma of Kopi Luwak.

Musk cats mainly inhabit tropical rain forests in hills and mountains below 2100 meters above sea level, shrubs and grasses on the edge of subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests, and choose caves, soil caves or tree caves as habitat sites.

Musk cats eat a variety of food, including small beasts, birds, amphibians and reptiles, crustaceans, insects, such as rodents, birds, snakes, frogs, fish, crabs, bird eggs, insects, earthworms and wild birds. Plant foods include stems and leaves of Solanaceae, seeds of many kinds of figs, cloth dregs, sour berries and so on.

But civets have poor digestion of plants, so eating berries is tantamount to their dessert, and their staple food is meat. In the most natural environment, civets eat the most suitable food and coffee berries of their own choice. they are ripe fruits, fruits with high sugar content, and then discharge coffee beans that they cannot digest. This is the nature of animals. It's also a natural occurrence.

How did the Vietnamese Kopi Luwak come from?

Vietnam's coffee export output is very large, is the world's second largest coffee producer, Vietnam's main coffee is robusta coffee beans, Robusta is generally used as an auxiliary blend with instant coffee and espresso, authentic bean cat poop coffee beans taste mellow, almost sour. Vietnamese Kopi Luwak sells instant coffee, that is, what kind of packet of coffee is dissolved in boiling water. This kind of Kopi Luwak is fake Kopi Luwak, it is only cat shit flavor coffee, not authentic Kopi Luwak. Authentic Kopi Luwak can't be so cheap. Its output determines that it can't be sold so cheaply. Cat shit flavor coffee is only coffee with a similar flavor to Kopi Luwak. There is no Kopi Luwak in it.

Kopi Luwak tastes more earthy, and its consistency is closer to that of syrup. After drinking, there will still be a hint of mint cool feeling in the mouth, which is the "exclusive taste" that ordinary coffee does not have. After drinking a cup, take a deep breath or take a sip of cold water, you can obviously feel a cool breath from mouth to throat, as if you have just eaten a mint lozenge. Kopi Luwak tastes particularly mellow, rich and round sweet taste is also incomparable to other coffee beans.

Kopi Luwak was originally worthless. It was the poor who could not afford to buy coffee and went to the wild to pick up coffee beans from the feces of wild civets. It was not until a Western tourist made this strange phenomenon public when he was traveling in Indonesia that Kopi Luwak became an overnight hit and became a luxury accessory in short supply.

Later, after Kopi Luwak became popular through travel notes, a large number of orders followed. Traders, middlemen, cooperatives and coffee farmers have made huge profits, but the civets have been in a "hellish situation" ever since.

The number of wild civets is decreasing, while there are more and more sites for raising civets. Musk cats are timid by nature and are usually found only at night. Since then, at night in the forest, there is often a heart-wrenching cry of a civet: it has been caught by a human hunter.

In the cage where you hit your head in two steps, there is no freedom, nothing but coffee beans and water. Long-term nutrition is even less, the vast majority of captive civet excreta with a lot of blood, is the real "flesh and blood coffee".

Later, in order to chase profits, people began to breed civets, and civets no longer chose coffee fruits for food, but were forced to eat large amounts of coffee fruits in narrow cages. They were on the verge of collapse, biting each other's companions, biting their own legs, pulling blood, and dying one after another.

Although Kopi Luwak tastes mellow, today's civets are farmed, and the taste of coffee depends on the quality of the fed coffee fruit. Although the quality of coffee fruit generally has its own characteristics, the quality of Arabica is better than that of Robusta. Of course, there are differences in the price of these coffees. Generally speaking, premium coffee is made from Arabica, while Robusta is mostly used as instant coffee.

The Indonesian cat poop coffee beans of Qianjie coffee are roasted in medium depth, and the brewed coffee has a smooth taste. In order to reflect the herbal and nutty flavor of cat poop coffee beans in the front street, the KONO filter cup was used in the next cooking process. KONO filter cup, because it can bring out a more round and mellow taste will be more direct. However, the exhaust effect of the KONO filter cup is relatively poor, because his ribs are straight and the depth is only 1/4 of the depth of the filter cup, except for the position of more than 1/4 to form an airtight state close to the cup wall. The reason why the deep-roasted cat poop coffee beans in the front street will choose the KONO filter cup is that the only exhaust part of the KONO filter cup is in 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 is increased by the weight of the water. Because the outlet is relatively small, the contact time between coffee particles and water can be prolonged for a longer time. With the flow of water, it can bring out the soluble matter more effectively and achieve the effect of high alcohol thickness we expected.

Qianjie coffee hopes to better show the herbal flavor and mellow taste of Indonesian cat poop coffee beans, so when baking, Qianjie made this Indonesian cat poop coffee beans into medium-deep roasting.

Coffee beans with medium and deep roasting generally have a higher weight loss ratio and lighter weight. During brewing, the coffee powder will not completely sink to the bottom, so the water injection will be absorbed immediately; due to the strong exhaust, the coffee powder is surrounded by bubbles, thus creating channels; and these channels, the more fresh beans are maintained for longer, the more rapidly the water level drops; so the front street will generally use rough water and slowly circle to cook Indonesian cat shit coffee beans.

Use Kono filter cup water temperature: 88 ℃ powder quantity: 15g powder water ratio: 1:15 powder water ratio grinding degree: medium fine grinding (Chinese standard No. 20 sieve pass rate 75%)

Kopi Luwak flavor features: herbs, nuts, dark chocolate, fermented taste.

Suggestions for making coffee in front of the street:

For the brewing of coffee, Qianjie has always believed that the freshness of coffee beans has a great relationship with the flavor of coffee, so the coffee beans shipped in Qianjie coffee are 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 it. 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.

Therefore, Qianjie does not recommend people to drink Kopi Luwak, although the real Kopi Luwak flavor is very good, but the coffee from other countries is also very good. For example: Panamanian rosy summer coffee, which is also one of the most expensive coffee in the world; Essena coffee with sour fruit flavor, but now people pursue flower-fruit tea-like coffee; Brazil's nut caramel balanced taste, neither sour nor bitter, is also one of everyone's favorite coffee. There are so many coffees in the world, it is also a happy thing to experience more coffee from different producing areas and to feel different flavors of coffee.

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