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Teguh Pribadi, founder of the Indonesian civet coffee association, insists that the mislabelled Indonesian civet coffee from wild civets is not common and may be an isolated case.

Lin Yijun, who once kept civets in captivity, believes that farmers and civets are symbiotic with each other, and civets are their source of income. If they abuse money-making tools and civets have poor health, the quality of coffee beans produced will certainly be poor, and farmers' income will be affected.

She said that captive farming makes it convenient for farmers to harvest coffee beans regularly, and most of the captive grounds are natural spaces where civets can move freely, while coffee beans excreted by wild civets often take time to find, and when farmers find them, the coffee beans have been overfermented and the quality is not good.

In addition, due to the scarcity and high price of civet coffee, there is news that "fakes are full" from time to time. Indonesian media recently reported that there is a cat similar to the civet in Indonesia, called "Musang" in Indonesia. Because it is cheaper than civets and eats more than civets, it is often bought and fed by coffee makers, and then mixed with discharged coffee beans as civet coffee to sell. It is said that early Indonesian coffee farmers regarded civets that specialize in ripe coffee fruits as mortal enemies. But at some point someone began to think of picking out coffee beans from the civet droppings to make coffee with a unique flavor. Coffee experts everywhere have tried and were amazed. From then on, local farmers spend a lot of time every day collecting civet droppings in the forest during the coffee ripening season. this coffee comes from the excrement of an animal called civets (commonly known as civets in Indonesia). Although it comes from smelly poop, it only feels sweet and indescribable sweetness. This wild musk cat likes to eat fat and pulpy coffee fruits, but the hard hard nuts (raw beans) are indigestible and are excreted with feces. After being cleaned, they become Kopi Luwak coffee raw beans! So many people call it "cat shit" coffee. The Indonesians found that the coffee beans fermented by the civets' intestines and stomach are particularly thick and mellow, so they collect the civets' feces, sift out the coffee beans and brew them to drink. Because the yield is rare and the fermentation process is unique, the flavor is very different from that of ordinary coffee. Traditionally, coffee fruit is washed or sun-treated to remove the skin, flesh and sheep skin, and finally take out the coffee beans, but Luwak is the use of natural fermentation in the body to take out the coffee beans, so there is a special flavor after processing and roasting, Kopi Luwak has become a luxury coffee drink, spread to luxury kingdoms all over the world. Local coffee farmers, in pursuit of high profits, bring wild civets home to raise them so that they can produce more Kopi Luwak. However, the Kopi Luwak produced by breeding civets will be much worse in color and taste. Even so, the output of this kind of coffee is still very rare, and it is not affordable for all people who like coffee.