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In particular, Indonesia has a special animal in the mountains: the civet, because it makes Indonesia produce one of the world's most expensive coffees-civet coffee, also known as cat poop coffee. The cat loves coffee berries, and the hard coffee beans end up being excreted because they can't be digested. During the digestive tract, coffee beans produce a unique and complex aroma through fermentation. Many gourmets like this coffee with special aroma, which is extremely expensive due to its low yield.

Kopi Luwak, also known as civet coffee (Kopi means coffee, Luwak means civet according to Malay translation), is the most expensive coffee bean in the world and is produced in Indonesia. seventeen grams is about hk $200.

Cat poop coffee bean name source

Cat poop coffee is produced from the feces of Indonesian coconut cats (a kind of civet cat), so it is called "cat poop coffee". This kind of animal mainly feeds on coffee beans. After fermentation in coconut cat stomach, protein is destroyed, short peptides and more free amino acids are produced, the bitter taste of coffee will be reduced, and the feces discharged will be the main raw material. Since coffee beans cannot be digested, they will be excreted. After washing and baking, they become cat feces coffee. Coffee critic Chris Rubin said,"The bouquet is so rich and intense, and the coffee is incredibly rich, almost syrupy. The thickness and chocolaty texture of it, and lingering on the tongue for a long time, pure aftertaste."

Coconut cats are omnivorous animals. In addition to eating seeds, they also eat insects, snakes, birds, amphibians and reptiles.[2][3] Therefore, the feces discharged by real wild coconut cats will be mixed with various substances. Indonesian local farmers catch coconut cats to raise and feed coffee beans to make them. However, there was still a certain difference between artificial cultivation and natural cultivation.

Cat poop coffee bean yield

Cat poop coffee production is very small, and therefore particularly expensive. And there are even fewer places for sale. It is rare even in Indonesia, where it originated. Therefore, the cat feces coffee sold on the market is mostly artificially raised, and the flavor of coffee beans is naturally different from the most primitive and natural wild cat feces coffee.