Is Kopi Luwak really made of cat shit?

The most expensive coffee in the world comes from Indonesia. It is an extremely rare coffee, producing only 500 pounds a year, many times more expensive than Blue Mountain coffee. A 4 oz cup of cat poop coffee can sell for $168! The rarity of this coffee is that it comes from the droppings of a wild Indonesian civet. In order to get precious "cat feces coffee beans", Indonesian local farmers will catch civets into cages to feed themselves, and some coffee merchants simply pack an island to raise these cats freely, so that they can enjoy the environment of natural sunshine and rain. "Civets eat and poop themselves, and you can't force them to eat and poop, so the coffee beans in the final feces are very valuable."

This rare coffee is known to produce only 500 pounds a year. The raw materials of this coffee are difficult to obtain, the production process is also very complicated, and it must go through strict sanitary procedures, such as drying, roasting, brewing and other complex procedures. However, the final finished coffee produces a unique aroma and is therefore expensive.

In Indonesian coffee shops, a 20-gram cat poop coffee costs 380 yuan, much higher than other types of coffee. Now in Hong Kong to drink a cup of cat feces coffee, asking for 220-298 yuan, there are still coffee lovers flock to.

[Cat poop coffee source]

Cat poop coffee, Indonesia, one of the world's most expensive coffee. Indonesia grows a lot of coffee, and there is a wild animal called the civet, an omnivore with a pointed mouth and dark gray fur. The favorite food is fresh coffee beans, which are fermented and digested in the body and eventually discharged as cat feces. Feces are coffee beans and are the most expensive feces in the world. Because of the scarcity, the price is very expensive. Civets are found in Indochina, India (northeast), Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal and Kashmir, but only Sumatra civets, or Indonesian civets, can produce cat feces coffee.

After processing and roasting, cat poop coffee became a luxury coffee drink that spread to luxury kingdoms around the world. Local coffee farmers, in pursuit of high profits, capture wild civets and raise them at home so that they can produce more cat poop coffee. However, the quality and taste of cat feces coffee produced by raised civets would be correspondingly inferior. Even so, production of this coffee is scarce and not affordable for all coffee lovers.