Indonesian civet coffee introduces why civet coffee is more expensive than other coffees.

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 and lone creatures have to be huddled in a cage with their own kind, which puts them under great pressure. Many coffee companies around the world are still using the original story about the digestive habits of wild animals as a stunt to peddle 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, but now, it is difficult to see the real 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, and it would be better if he could invent a way to tell whether coffee beans come from wild coconut cats or captive coconut cats: after coconut cats eat coffee fruit, they expel indigestible seeds from their bodies, and when these beans wrapped in feces are washed and dried, they become priceless Kopi Luwak. Photo: shutterstock's real Indonesian Kopi Luwak is collected from the feces 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, the number was very rare, the feces were difficult to collect, and the quality of coffee beans harvested in different periods varied, so Kopi Luwak was not a commercially viable crop, but just an interesting coffee treasure. that's why I bought it.

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.