Introduction of several fermentation processes in the production of Indonesian civet coffee Kopi Luwak

At present, there are still two modes of production of civet coffee in Indonesia. One is the civets from the wild, which need someone to collect the civet poop that can be found like mushrooms, and then do the sun or water washing treatment. However, because the civet is a nocturnal animal, lives in the jungle area and does not eat much, the coffee beans produced by wild civets are very rare.

So if you want to get more Kopi Luwak, you need to rely on artificial breeding. Raising civets in captivity is like raising chickens and harvesting eggs. People will provide them with fully ripe, higher-quality coffee fruits, supplemented with tropical fruits such as mangoes and papayas to help better digest, absorb and add more flavor. because coffee beans cannot be digested, civets excrete them and become civets coffee after washing, bean processing and roasting.

From these two ways, we can see that there is a certain difference between artificial cultivation and natural cultivation. Wild civets must choose the most ripe and sweetest coffee fruits when choosing coffee fruits, which is a kind of natural screening. In addition to eating coffee fruits, it also eats insects and snakes, birds, amphibians and reptiles, so the droppings of real wild civets are mixed with all kinds of substances. And artificial breeding is to keep the musk cat in a cage, it has no chance to eat other kinds of food, hungry only coffee fruit and fruit to eat.

A documentary about the Indonesian civet coffee producing area shows that workers will put defecating pills in bananas for cats to eat, and civets can defecate regularly after eating this kind of fortified bananas. This allows coffee beans to stay in the civet's stomach for a relatively consistent time, that is, to make the fermentation time relatively consistent, which sounds inhumane. However, the flavor stability of artificially cultivated civet coffee beans is far better than that of natural coffee, which is claimed to be the most expensive coffee in the world. In fact, it is the same as the monsoon coffee we have introduced before. it also belongs to a special method of raw bean treatment called "in vivo fermentation". It is done by a kind of wild bag civet commonly known as musk cat in Indonesia. It is called Luwak in Malay and belongs to the genus Arboretum. It has a pointed mouth and dark gray fur, itself is an omnivore, poor digestion of plants, but loves to eat fresh coffee fruit.

It is conceivable that at first Luwak had to risk his life when eating his favorite coffee fruit. How could the farmer uncle tolerate the fruits of his hard-working work stolen by him, and must be eliminated once he found it? But he had to admire the man who invented the civet coffee. It was not unusual for him to find that the civet could not digest the core of the coffee. But where did he come from the idea of picking out the coffee beans in the smelly poop and making them into coffee? Drinking?