Visit Indonesian Coffee Workshop to decipher Kopi Luwak Technology

[global Network reporter Li Na] Indonesia is one of the most important coffee producing areas in the world, and the locally produced Kopi Luwak is famous for its high prices. On Sept. 8, members of the delegation of "Chinese Internet celebrities Maritime Silk Road-Indonesia Station" walked into a famous Kopi Luwak production and sales workshop in Yogyakarta to visit the protagonist of Kopi Luwak and decipher the story behind Kopi Luwak.

Kopi Luwak is called Kopi Luwak,Kopi in Indonesian, which means "coffee", and Luwak is a wild animal called civet. According to the local guide, Kopi Luwak in Indonesia is mainly concentrated in Java and Sumatra, where Kopi Luwak from Yogyakarta tastes especially good. Members of the delegation also walked into the coffee factory called Kopi Luwak "MATARAM" in Yogyakarta to see the true appearance of civets and understand the production and production process of Kopi Luwak.

In a local store, the delegation saw the civet. Compared to cats, they look more like little raccoons and look very gentle and lovely. Mery, the owner of a local coffee shop, told members of the delegation that civets usually sleep during the day and are more active at night. Their main foods are plant fruits, insects and small beasts, but coffee fruit is one of their favorite foods, and they choose the most ripe, sweet, juicy fruits in coffee trees. They have a very keen sense of smell and only eat high-quality coffee fruits, and the rest will be automatically abandoned by them.

In fact, the only thing that civets like to eat is the flesh of coffee. When the fruit passes through the digestive system of civets, only the pulp on the outside of the fruit is digested, and the core coffee beans are discharged intact. The coffee beans fermented in the stomach have a different taste. When the coffee beans are discharged, the formal processing process begins. First of all, you have to wash the coffee beans many times to make sure the coffee beans are completely clean. Then peel off the shell wrapped in the surface of the coffee bean.

According to the store owner, this peeling process is generally done manually, on the one hand, because it is easy to damage the coffee bean itself, and on the other hand, because the machine treatment will destroy the original taste of the coffee bean, and ultimately affect the quality and taste of the coffee. And the peeled shell can also be used to make pillows. After completing this link, enter the cleaning link again, there is a special coffee bean cleaning machine in the store, under normal circumstances, a batch of coffee beans need to be cleaned for about 2 hours.

After cleaning, it goes into the air-drying and baking process, and then stores it. The longer you put it, the darker the color of the coffee beans will be due to oil production, oxidation and other reasons. The reporter also tasted coffee beans in different periods of time on the coconut candy scene, and the taste was indeed slightly different.

Asked if her products were exported to China, Mery told reporters that her products are currently sold in China and are not exported for the time being. However, there are also customers in other countries, including Canada and Japan, who never forget after tasting. Although she does not provide export services, she can mail products.

For many coffee lovers, the high price of Kopi Luwak is prohibitive. In Indonesia, the price of the coffee is not sighing. In this store, the price of a pack of 100 grams of instant coffee powder is about 175 yuan.

Data show that at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, a cup of coffee made from 12 grams of cat poop coffee powder from Indonesian companies sold for 380 yuan, a daily limit of 12 cups in short supply. A kilogram of cat poop coffee beans costs as much as $1200 in the US, while a cup of Kopi Luwak in the UK costs about £50.