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This shit of Kopi Luwak is really not worth that much! For the past 20 years, Kopi Luwak has been the "ultimate coffee". With its excellent taste and hard-won, it is regarded as a treasure by coffee sellers around the world, even appearing in CNN News, Oprah Show and Hollywood movies. I first read the description of Kopi Luwak in a National Geographic magazine in 1981. Ten years later, in 1991, as director of coffee at Taylors of Harrogate, I was the first to introduce Kopi Luwak to the West. At that time, I bought only one kilogram and did not sell it through the company. Instead, I thought that maybe this kind of curiosity would arouse the interest of the local Yorkshire newspapers and radio stations where the company is located. The result was far more than I expected-it was widely reported by newspapers, television and radio. Since then, Kopi Luwak has gradually come into the public eye.

Coconut cats roam coffee plantations in Indonesia, and Kopi Luwak comes from their feces. Photo Source: theguardian.com

The real Indonesian Kopi Luwak is collected from the droppings of a local wild animal called Paradoxurus hermaphroditus. The coconut cat is a timid nocturnal animal that takes advantage of the night to eat ripe coffee fruit during a bumper harvest on the coffee plantation. However, they cannot digest the seeds, that is, coffee beans, which are excreted in their faeces. The coffee beans, which pass through the coconut cat's digestive tract and anal glands (they mark the territory with the smell of the anal glands), are collected by farm workers and washed to form a unique flavor that is widely respected. At that time, because coconut cats were wild, rare in number, difficult to collect feces, and the quality of coffee beans harvested varied from time to time, Kopi Luwak was not a commercially viable crop, but an interesting coffee treasure. that's why I bought it.

How a Kopi Luwak is made: a coconut cat eats coffee fruit and excretes indigestible seeds. When these feces-wrapped beans are washed and dried, they become a priceless Kopi Luwak. Photo Source: shutterstock

But now, it is hard to see the original Kopi Luwak. Today's Kopi Luwak comes mostly from wild coconut cats in cages, and they are generally kept in harsh conditions. A Japanese scientist recently claimed to have invented a way to tell whether coffee beans come from wild coconut cats or captive coconut cats, especially if he can tell whether coffee beans come from wild coconut cats or captive ones. Many coffee companies around the world are still using the original story about wildlife digestion habits as a stunt to sell Kopi Luwak. Many companies claim that they can only collect 500kg Kopi Luwak a year. And use this scarcity to justify its high price (Kopi Luwak usually sells for $200,400 per kilogram, sometimes more). In fact, although exact figures are not available, I estimate that Kopi Luwak's annual global production is at least 50 tons, much more than that is possible. Now farmers in India, Vietnam, China and the Philippines have joined the production of Kopi Luwak.

An Indonesian farm says it can produce 7000 kilograms of Kopi Luwak a year from 240 caged coconut cats. Photo Source: theguardian.com the current Indonesian Kopi Luwak is basically the product of industrial production, the original ecology is almost impossible. Doesn't that sound a little disgusting? That's true. These timid creatures who walk alone have to be huddled in a cage with their own kind, which puts them under great pressure.