Diagram of how to soak Kopi Luwak after it has been ground into powder

Kopi Luwak is one of the most special and expensive coffee in the world. It is really necessary to know the brewing method if you want to brew the original taste of the coffee. It is really wasteful to brew it improperly. With everyone's understanding of coffee and the improvement of the requirements of life, it is more likely to pursue the process of making coffee at home. Therefore, if you want to make a delicious cup of coffee, you still need to know more about brewing methods, so as not to waste coffee beans.

Maybe you all feel dirty when you hear the name of the coffee, but in fact, it is the coffee beans washed in the poop of the civet. Musk cat is a small musk-secreting animal on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Kopi Luwak is just another name for this coffee. Its official name is "Kopi Luwak", civet coffee. Kopi means "coffee" in Indonesian, and Luwak refers to a wild animal called "civet". The origin of civet coffee can be traced back to the colonial era in Indonesia, when the Dutch government banned local people from eating and roasting coffee in the coffee garden, but accidentally found that the coffee beans discharged by the wild civets after eating in the garden had a completely different taste.

The civet (LUWAK) is like a gourmet in the animal kingdom. Ripe, sweet, juicy coffee fruit is one of their favorite foods. This limited number of animals in the world, with an unusually keen sense of smell, choose the most delicious and abundant coffee fruit on the coffee tree to comfort themselves. The coffee fruit passes through the musk's digestive system, the skin and flesh of the digested knowledge fruit, and the hard coffee beans are excreted out of their bodies intact. This digestion process, so that the coffee beans have an unparalleled change, the flavor is even more unique, the taste is particularly mellow, rich and round taste is also unmatched by other coffee. That's because the musk's digestive system destroys the protein in the coffee beans, which is much less bitter than coffee, adding to the round taste of the coffee beans. The musk cat has a musk gland near its genitals, so the coffee beans are covered with a faint scent.

Cat poop coffee beans are after the civets eat the coffee fruit, the coffee beans in the civets' intestines, special bacteria provide a unique fermentation environment, because the intestines can not digest coffee beans, so they will be excreted. After the musk cat gastrointestinal fermentation of coffee beans, the flavor becomes unique, particularly thick and mellow.

The land of Sumatra Islands in Indonesia is far from the hustle and bustle, with plenty of sunshine all the year round, pure air, suitable humidity and fertile soil. Because of its unique geographical environment and mild climate, the ecological environment of Sumen waxing Islands has been well protected. Sumatra runs northwest-southeast, intersects the equator in the middle, and consists of two areas: the Barisan Mountains Mountains in the west and the marshes in the east. The western half of the mountain runs through the steep Barisan Mountains, stretching from northwest to southeast, stretching 1600 kilometers (1000 miles). There are more than 90 volcanoes, of which the highest peak, Mount Kerinci, is 3800 meters (12467 feet) above sea level. To the east of the mountains are alluvial plains, wide in the south and narrow in the north, with a widest point of more than 100 kilometers. There are many rivers, such as the Moussi River, the Batamhari River, the Indra Jiri River, the Gamba River and so on. The pollution-free primeval forest has given birth to a high-quality variety of Arabica coffee, and the fruit is particularly full-bodied, round and full-bodied.

Indonesian coffee has the taste of earthy and traditional Chinese medicine, and its consistency is also the highest in all continents, such as Indonesian Mantenin coffee, but "Kopi Luwak" has a heavier earthy flavor and a consistency closer to syrup, which has a very special flavor. After drinking, there will still be a touch of peppermint cool feeling in the mouth, which is the "exclusive taste" that ordinary coffee does not have. After drinking a cup, take a deep breath or take a sip of cold water, you can obviously feel cool from mouth to throat. It's like I just ate a mint lotion.

Although Kopi Luwak tastes mellow, today's civets are farmed, and the taste of coffee depends on the quality of the fed coffee fruit. Although the quality of coffee fruit generally has its own characteristics, the quality of Arabica is better than that of Robusta. Qianjie does not recommend people to taste Kopi Luwak, of course, if you can taste the real Kopi Luwak is good, but the price will be more expensive; mainly because now Kopi Luwak is farmed, which is undoubtedly cruel for freedom-loving civets, only for civets to eat coffee beans, but also raw and immature coffee beans, so that civets discharge coffee beans and are bloody.

How to make Kopi Luwak tastes good? Qianjie suggests using the form of hand flushing to brew.

In the choice of filter cup, Qianjie chose Kono Mingmen filter cup. The biggest feature of the Kono filter cup is that the ribs extend from the bottom to the middle, and the upper part is a smooth filter cup wall, so that when the filter paper is glued to the filter cup, the water can not "sneak" around the coffee powder to improve the thickness of the taste.

The amount of powder used in Qianjie is still 15g, and the amount of coffee powder is not as much as possible, nor less, depending on the size of the filter cup. Qianjie uses a filter cup of 1-2 people, which is a reasonable amount of powder when the amount of powder is 15-20g. It will be difficult to brew the powder outside this range.

In the proportion of cooking powder, Qianjie will recommend 1:15, although some will suggest 1:13 or less, but Qianjie has a surface in the previous article, and there is no inevitable relationship between the concentration and the thickness of alcohol. And being too strong can cause discomfort. Therefore, the use of 1:15 powder-water ratio can also show the mellow taste and special aroma of Kopi Luwak.

In terms of coffee grinding, Qianjie will use sieve 20 with a pass rate of 75%. Brewing Kopi Luwak is a little thicker than lightly roasted coffee beans, because cat poop uses deep roasting, its structure will be looser, and it is easier to absorb water and release coffee substances. if ground to the thickness of shallow roasted beans, it is easy to rush out bitter taste; if it is thicker, it will make the coffee become thin and tasteless and taste as thin as water.

In the choice of water temperature, Qianjie recommends using 88 ℃ of water temperature for cooking. In the same way as the degree of grinding, too high water temperature is prone to scorch bitterness, too low water temperature will appear coffee insipid, and there will be an unpleasant acidity.

The brewing and cooking method uses three-stage water injection, which is divided into three stages to better show the mellow taste of Kopi Luwak and the sweetness of caramel. The specific distribution of water injection is the first stage of steaming water injection 30ml, this stage of water injection all wet coffee powder, exhaust, in order to better extract the flavor substances of coffee, the second stage injected 100ml, the last stage injected 95ml to improve the sweetness of coffee, showing a thick mellow taste, the sweetness of caramel and the flavor of chocolate and nuts.

Kopi Luwak flavor description: herbs, nuts, smooth, mellow taste.

Suggestions for making coffee in front of the street:

For the brewing of coffee, Qianjie has always believed that the freshness of coffee beans has a great relationship with the flavor of coffee, so the coffee beans shipped in Qianjie coffee are roasted within 5 days. The purpose of Qianjie roasting is "freshly roasted coffee", so that every guest who places an order is the freshest coffee when he receives it. The bean cultivation period of coffee is about 4-7 days, so when the guest gets it, it is the time when the flavor is the best.

For those who need to be ground, Qianjie warmly reminds you that if the coffee beans are ground in advance, there is no need to raise the beans, because in the process of transportation, the pressure caused by carbon dioxide in the package can also make the coffee flavor round. so you can drink a cup of coffee as soon as you receive the coffee powder. But the coffee powder needs to be brewed in time, because the coffee powder oxidizes more quickly after contact with the air, that is to say, the flavor of the coffee will dissipate more quickly, and the flavor of the coffee is not so good. Therefore, Qianjie suggests buying whole beans, grinding and flushing now, so that we can better taste the flavor of coffee.

Kopi Luwak is also coffee. Coffee has the same effect, and you don't have to drink Kopi Luwak. In fact, there are so many varieties of coffee in the world, and Qianjie Coffee has nearly half a hundred beans from different producing areas, such as Panamanian Rose Summer Coffee, Colombian Flower and Fruit Night and Rose Valley Coffee. The bright flower-and fruit-scented coffee in Ethiopia, such as Yega Chuefei Coffee and Sun-red Cherry Coffee, are all worth tasting. If you really don't know what flavor you like, you can try the food rations in front of the street first. Qianjie rations beans are coffee representatives of various producing countries, the performance-to-price ratio is very high, it is very suitable for everyone to choose their own taste of entry beans.

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