Rich, round, sweet Indonesian civet coffee grindability, taste, variety treatment

Statistics show that wild civets are very rare in Indonesia. Kopi Luwak, which is produced by wild civets, produces no more than 500lbs a year, and prices range from $300,800 per pound. The price depends on the year, and there is not a fixed output every year.

Where there is demand, there will be a market. Now some people in Indonesia have begun to raise civets to make artificial "Kopi Luwak". It is understood that if 20 civets are kept in a Kopi Luwak factory in Indonesia, 700g of Kopi Luwak can be produced every day. But that number seems to be far from enough for consumers around the world who want a taste of Kopi Luwak.

A reporter from the British Guardian once visited a coffee shop in Indonesia and witnessed the price behind the human pursuit of luxury. "nearly 20 iron cages that have imprisoned civets are scattered in the corners and rooftops of coffee shops to meet people's demand for Kopi Luwak."

Local animal protection groups pointed out that as Kopi Luwak has become more and more popular in recent years, tens of thousands of wild civets have been captured and frightened civets struggle to get close to their companions, but are forced to be locked up in harsh conditions. A large number of coffee beans are forcibly fed every day, resulting in a high mortality rate, and a similar situation is rising year by year in Southeast Asia. The group calls on consumers who drink Kopi Luwak to think about how the gourmet coffee was made before tasting it.

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 see this insipid taste as an advantage of this kind of coffee. Civets like to choose the most ripe, sweet, juicy coffee fruits in coffee trees 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.