Introduction to the characteristics of the manor producing area of Indonesian civet coffee with special flavor

It is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of China, including southern Gansu, Sichuan, Shaanxi Qinling, southern Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and low-altitude areas southeast of Xizang. Xizang's Chayu, Bomi, Motuo, Linzhi, Milin, Cuona and other places. It was recorded in previous literature (Shou Zhenhuang et al., 1964) that it was distributed in Jingjiang, Shanghai and Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, but it has not been found in these areas in the past 30 years. As experts in the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia have discovered the uniqueness of this kind of coffee, the demand for civet coffee in the international market is growing day by day, so that in the Philippines and Indonesia, the two countries with the most civets Set off a "gold rush" to collect and process civet coffee. In the Philippines, collectors searched the ground of almost every forest, and as more and more people joined in, civet coffee had become a new industry at that time. In Indonesia, because civets have been produced here for a long time, enterprising individuals have turned to catching civets and keeping them in cages in their backyard for home-style production of Kopi Luwak in a variety of ways. one is to pick up the beans discharged by the civet after eating the beans in the natural coffee garden, and a kind of artificially fed coffee beans. In the production process of Kopi Luwak in Yunnan, China, some farmers adopt the method of semi-captivity, the civet moves freely in the greenhouse, and the coffee beans are eaten freely by it. The mode of production is quite reasonable, but the yield is low. Because of this, many merchants began to keep civets in captivity to mass produce the valuable Kopi Luwak. According to the survey, the resources of great cats in the country in the 1950s are estimated to be more than 200000. After a long period of excessive hunting, the number decreased year by year. In 1981, the national output of great civet skins was about 5000-6000. Optimistically, in the early 1980s, the natural population of big cats in China was less than 20,000. By the early 1990s, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, southern Anhui, Guizhou and other places were very rare. The population of civet cats is endangered in China. In the 1960s and 1970s, 30 animals were raised in Kunming Animal Research Institute and more than 10 in Hangzhou Zoo, but so far there is no breeding population, one of the reasons is that the problem of reproduction has not been really solved. Of the 30 cats raised (15 females and 15 males), only one case was pregnant and gave birth in 5 years, and was eaten by the female cat after delivery, and the rest were in a state of infertility.

The coffee comes from the excrement of an animal called the civet (commonly known as the civet in Indonesia). Although it comes from smelly poop, it is full of sweetness and a burst of 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, removing the skin, flesh and sheep skin, and finally taking out the coffee beans. However, Luwak uses in vivo natural fermentation to remove the coffee beans, so it has a special flavor, Kopi Luwak, which is produced in Indonesia, one of the most expensive coffee in the world. Indonesia grows a lot of coffee crops, including wild animals called civets, omnivores, pointed mouths and dark gray fur. The favorite food is fresh coffee beans, which are fermented and digested in the body and eventually excreted by cats. Feces are grains of coffee beans and become the most expensive feces in the world. Because the quantity is very rare, so the price is very expensive. Civets are distributed in Indo-China, India (northeast), Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal and Kashmir, but only Sumatran civets, that is, Indonesian civets, have different prices. According to my previous information: the normal price of authentic Kopi Luwak beans is about 2500 yuan per pound (454g, baked).

Some stores are knockoffs that are much cheaper, about a thousand, and some are hardcover versions ranging from 45,000 to 11000 pounds.

A cup of coffee normally uses 10 grams of coffee beans. That is, the material cost of a cup is 55 yuan. Taking into account the store rent, staff wages and profits, it is normal for a genuine cup of Kopi Luwak to sell for more than 200 yuan.

Of course, there are relatively few Kopi Luwak, and most profiteers will borrow the English words of the civet breed to repeat masked palm civet, claiming that masked palm civet is the civet. It actually belongs to the cat family, but it's not a breed.

But even the authentic Kopi Luwak has been rated as junk coffee by several senior figures in SCAA. In fact, the essence of Kopi Luwak is hype.

Note: SCAA is the largest, most professional and authoritative coffee trade association in the world, and it is a trade organization focusing on high-quality coffee.

Founded in 1982, SCAA has more than 3, 000 member companies in more than 40 countries around the world, covering all areas of the coffee industry.