Is Kopi Luwak really the best in coffee?

Some people may feel smelly when it comes to "Kopi Luwak", but it is the most expensive poop since there is shit! The price per pound is as high as a few hundred dollars. Over the past 20 years, Kopi Luwak has been regarded as a treasure by coffee sellers around the world for its excellent taste and hard-won, even appearing in CNN News, Oprah Show and Hollywood movies. Is it worth exchanging two pieces of Grandpa Mao for a cup of cat poop juice?

Kopi Luwak is indeed the poop of a civet, but there is a difference in quality.

Many people think that Kopi Luwak is unlikely to be the poop of a cat. In this regard, Mr. Zhu Guang, a senior coffee expert certified by the European Fine Coffee Association, said that Kopi Luwak is indeed the poop of a civet. Civet also has a more approachable name is "masked palm civet". In the coffee fruit ripening season, the wild civet will quietly run to the coffee field to eat coffee fruit, in the biological instinct, it will choose the sweetest coffee fruit. As a result, coffee fruits selected by civets are of higher quality than those selected by the most experienced coffee pickers. After the civets' intestines and stomach, the pulp and pectin of the coffee are digested, and the endocarp and coffee beans are excreted. The coffee beans, which are refined by biological intestinal fermentation, are slightly different from those that rely on conventional artificial refinement because of the different fermentation process.

Today's Kopi Luwak is basically the product of industrial production. The original ecology is almost impossible.

This kind of coffee was mentioned in the famous American talk show (Oprah Winfrey Show) in 2003, which made it famous. In the 2008 Academy Award for Best Picture "Bucket List", Morgan Freeman told friends that civet coffee was extracted from cat poop. Seeing the embarrassing expression of his friend who was obsessed with civet coffee, Freeman realized a last wish: laugh to tears. At this point, coffee fans know that there is a rare coffee that challenges self-psychological barriers-Muskcat Coffee (Kopi Luwak).

Mr. Zhuguang said: "in China, about 2012, there has been a craze for cat shit coffee, and the demand has soared." At present, no matter in Indonesia or in other countries and regions, the vast majority of Kopi Luwak is produced in large quantities by raising civets and feeding them coffee fruits. As a result, civets do not have the opportunity to choose coffee fruits freely. This reminds me of Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, which are loved by the people. it is said that many hairy crabs are raised outside Yangcheng Lake. Before listing, they take a bath in Yangcheng Lake (raised for a few days), and then their value is doubled. The two are the same, both selling their credibility cheaply. In the face of the temptation of huge interests, it is difficult to imagine how wild civets survive. With the hot speculation of Kopi Luwak, wild civets must be caught clean, so today's Kopi Luwak, even if it is a live cat, is only the excrement of a caged animal deprived of its liberty, and its quality should not be generalized. but quality has nothing to do with cats.

Instead of choosing expensive cat shit, buy a cup of coffee that really pays attention to quality.

For many people, coffee is a culture, and coffee represents the quality of life. Finally, Mr. Zhuguang stressed, "if we only regard coffee as a drink and put aside excessive gift packaging for a while, we have two ways to judge the quality of coffee." First, industry standards; second, self-perception. In terms of industry standards, organizations such as the American Fine Coffee Association (SCAA) and the Coffee Excellence Cup (COE) have developed many scoring standards. Those coffee beans that have won prizes in the competition and have high scores (such as 90 +) are recognized as boutique coffee in the industry. Second, human taste systems vary greatly. For example, the number of taste buds on different people's tongues can vary by 10 times. Different congenital and postnatal eating habits will also make everyone have different sensitivity to different tastes, so we should discover and believe in our feelings and experience the beauty brought to us by the subtle and rich flavor of fine coffee. There is no need to over-pursue whether & # 39; cat shit & # 39; or & # 39; elephant shit & # 39; "

He stressed that the taste and quality of coffee are mainly determined by the key steps of coffee variety, planting, refining, roasting and extraction. Kopi Luwak is different from the conventional methods in the picking and refining processes. The variety of coffee and other processes of planting are still determined by the coffee farm. In other words, if the farm grows Robosta coffee, even if it has been selected and refined by civets, it will never have the characteristics of Arabica coffee. If the quality of the grown coffee is guaranteed, it will be even better if it has been selected and refined by the civet. He added, "at present, there are very few civets in the wild. In early 2010, we bought raw Kopi Luwak beans from Indonesia. At that time, the officially certified Kopi Luwak was only 40 kilograms a year, 1 kilogram each bag, with a serial number on the bag. The price is really high. The conclusion of the taste is that the Kopi Luwak we got is a high-quality Robosta coffee with a mellow taste, rich wheat flavor and rich flavor.

Source: 39 Health Network