How much is the price of authentic Indonesian Kopi Luwak? is civet coffee 396 yuan per cup normal?

Anyone who has been to Bali knows Kopi Luwak. This is the most expensive coffee in the world today!

It costs $1200 a kilo in the US, £50 in London and Rmb396 for a Kopi Luwak at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. But the cat poop coffee beans seen on Taobao cost only 200 yuan 100g, which is always a little incredible, so what is the actual price of Kopi Luwak? are the cat shit coffee beans sold on Taobao real?

In fact, there are no fake cat poop coffee beans. In fact, Kopi Luwak is the coffee beans that are discharged after the civet eats the coffee fruit. The wild Kopi Luwak is more expensive, but Kopi Luwak also depends on the place to determine the price. For example, Indonesia is more expensive than Vietnam, and Vietnam is more expensive than Yunnan. The cheaper Kopi Luwak is produced by captive civets. In theory, it is all real Kopi Luwak, but it is generally believed that the wild Kopi Luwak tastes the most authentic.

Wild cat poop coffee beans are workers who specialize in collecting cat droppings and panning out undigested coffee beans from smelly cat droppings (Indonesians say they don't smell).

This kind of cat is not an ordinary cat, but a musk cat, which actually belongs to a kind of beaver. Its head and face are black and white, its body is gray and black, and its body and tail are like cats. Some Chinese read it and said it was masked palm civet. This kind of civet is often active at night. So every morning, workers have to go up the mountain to collect feces, because if at noon, coffee beans are easy to over-ferment and go bad. Therefore, the cat poop coffee beans should be collected before dawn for cleaning and drying.

Musk cat intestinal tract has a special digestive juice, containing a lot of lactic acid bacteria, coffee beans encounter this lactic acid bacteria, encounter the right temperature and environment, begin to ferment, the protein in the coffee beans decompose into small particles, these small molecular enzymes. When the coffee beans are roasted again, the small molecular enzymes react with the carbohydrates or sugars of the coffee beans, which not only removes the bitterness of the coffee, but also produces a strange fragrance.

Musk cat belly is a magical processing factory, countless experiments have proved that any processing method in the world can not be compared with it. Therefore, once the coffee beans are excreted with the faeces of the civets, they become the royal family in the coffee.

The reason why wild Kopi Luwak is so expensive, in addition to its lingering special aroma, the most important thing is that its output is very scarce and unstable. Judging from the pricing of "scarcity is precious", wild Kopi Luwak is easy to fry to sky-high prices.

The yield of Kopi Luwak produced in captivity is stable, but because the diet of captive civets is greatly reduced, the digestive system is single, and the taste of Kopi Luwak is relatively not so good, so the price is relatively low.

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