Flavor description of civet coffee varieties with unique flavor introduction to the taste of producing areas

The cat is lonely, nocturnal, alert, sensitive to hearing and smell, day and night, agile, sensitive, cunning and suspicious, so it is called fox cat. Hiding in thickets, grass, tree caves, soil caves and caves during the day, they begin to move in the morning and dusk, often foraging at the edge of the forest, near agricultural land, in valleys, or even near residential areas, and return to their habitats two or three hours later. In addition to the breeding period, in the 1960s and 1970s, Kunming Animal Research Institute raised 30 animals, Hangzhou Zoo raised more than 10 animals, but there was no breeding population, one of the reasons is that the problem of reproduction has not been really solved. Guangzhou Zoo has kept big cats for quite a long time and has been able to breed successfully. There are small populations of big cats at the Ahmedabad Zoo in India, which are raised to collect their glandular secretions.

In the coffee industry, Kopi Luwak is widely regarded as a product with novelty as the selling point. "the consensus in the industry is that it tastes bad," said the American Special Coffee Association (Specialty Coffee Association of America,SCAA). SCAA quoted a coffee expert as saying: "obviously, the selling point of Kopi Luwak is its story, not its quality." Using the SCAA standard, Kopi Luwak scored two points lower than the lowest score for the other three types of coffee. It can be speculated that the processing of Kopi Luwak diluted the high-quality acidity and taste and made the taste more insipid. Of course, many people also seem to regard this insipid taste as the advantage of this kind of coffee. "

Tim Carman, a food columnist for the Washington Post, commented on Kopi Luwak sold in the United States and concluded that "it tastes like Folger coffee." It's like rotten, lifeless taste. It's like petrified dinosaur shit in bath water. I can't finish it. "

The civet likes to choose the most ripe, sweet, juicy coffee fruit in the coffee tree as food. The coffee fruit passes through its digestive system, and only the pulp on the outside of the fruit is digested, and the hard coffee beans are then excreted intact by the civet's digestive system.

In this way, in the process of digestion, the coffee beans have an unparalleled magical change, the flavor tends to be unique, the taste is particularly mellow, and the rich, round and sweet taste is also incomparable to other coffee beans. This is due to the fact that the civets' digestive system destroys the protein in the coffee beans, making the coffee much less bitter and increasing the round taste of the coffee beans.

Because wild civets are obviously better at selecting good coffee fruits, this kind of coffee has outstanding characteristics.