The full name of the cat shit coffee musk cat shit coffee, the world's most expensive musk cat coffee, up to several hundred dollars per pound, but we know the origin of the cat shit coffee? Together to see the international hot commodity - musk cat coffee its origin.

Cat poop coffee origin

Kopi Luwak (Musk Cat Coffee), Kopi (Indonesian, coffee), Luwak is the Indonesian people refer to a commonly known as "musk cat" of the arboreal wildlife. Kopi coffee, produced in Indonesia, is one of the most expensive coffees in the world. Indonesia grows a large number of coffee crops, there is a wild animal called musk cat, omnivorous, pointed mouth, dark gray fur. A favorite food is fresh coffee beans, which are excreted through fermentation and digestion in its body, eventually becoming cat feces. The feces are grains of coffee beans and have become the most expensive feces in the world. It is very expensive due to its very rare quantity. Musk cats in the Central and Southern Peninsula, India (northeast), Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, Kashmir are distributed, but can produce cat poop coffee, only the Sumatran musk cats that Indonesian musk cats.

After processing and roasting, cat poop coffee has become a luxury coffee drink, spreading to luxury kingdoms around the world. Local coffee farmers, in order to chase high profits, will be wild musk cats caught home to raise, so that they can produce more cat poop coffee. However, the color and flavor of cat shit coffee produced by breeding musk cats will be much inferior accordingly. Even so, the production of this coffee is still very rare, not all people who like coffee can afford to consume.

This coffee is from an animal called musk cat feces (this animal is commonly known as musk cats in Indonesia), although from the stink of the poop, but drink a mouth full of sweetness, and a burst of indescribable sweetness. This wild musk cat likes to eat the fat and pulpy coffee fruits, but the hard kernels (raw beans) are indigestible and are excreted in the feces, which, when cleaned, become the raw beans of Kopi Luwak coffee! This is why many people call it "cat poop" coffee. The Indonesians found that the coffee beans fermented in the stomach of musk cats were particularly thick and fragrant, so they collected the excrement of musk cats, sifted out the coffee beans, and brewed them to drink, and due to the scarcity of production, and the fermentation process is unique, and the flavor is very different from that of ordinary coffee.

Traditionally, coffee berries are washed or sun-dried to remove the rind, pulp, and parchment, and then the beans are finally removed, but Luwak uses natural fermentation in the body to remove the beans, which gives it a special flavor. It is said that in the early days, coffee farmers in Indonesia regarded musk cats, which ate ripe coffee fruits, as their mortal enemies, but it is not known when the idea of picking out coffee beans from the feces of musk cats began to come up to make 'coffee' with a unique flavor. Coffee experts from all over the world tried it and marveled at it. Since then, local farmers have been spending a lot of time in the forest collecting muskrat feces every day during the coffee season.

Cat poop coffee

Cat poop coffee, produced in Indonesia. 18th century, the Dutch in the Indonesian colony of Sumatra and Java around the establishment of coffee plantations, and prohibited the local people to pick and eat their own planted coffee fruit. The Indonesian locals accidentally discovered that musk cats loved to eat these coffee berries and would excrete the beans as they were when they pooped. The musk cats would only pick the ripest and sweetest coffee beans to eat, which in itself is a kind of natural screening, and secondly, the locals found that these beans were fermented by the cats' stomachs, and the coffee produced was much better than the ordinary ones. The flavorful and delicious cat poop coffee gradually gained fame and became a sought-after commodity in the international market.

Expensive

"Cat poop coffee" is the world's lowest production of coffee, a bag of 50 grams of coffee beans worth more than 800 yuan, can only brew 4 - 5 cups of coffee. This translates to about 200 RMB for a cup. Indonesia's largest coffee supplier Fireboat Group produced a small gift box of musk cat coffee e-commerce Shangpin Café selling price of 600 yuan 50 grams, packaging is extremely luxurious, while 100 grams of the price of more than 2,000 yuan, the wild global annual production of no more than 400 kilograms. And now the villagers in these areas not only collect wild Ruwaka excrement, but also began to caged Ruwaka. Large pots of picked coffee cherries are placed in front of the Rooibos and the hungry Rooibos have no choice but to eat all the coffee cherries. The taste of the coffees produced in this way is naturally much reduced. "The price of Kopi Luwak, a rare commodity, has remained high, and a cup of this coffee will cost you 50 pounds, and you may not be able to find it anywhere.

Expansion: how to brew cat poop coffee

Brewing cat poop coffee, it is recommended to use the siphon pot, the specific method is as follows:

1, clean the siphon pot, add about 160 ml of pure water to the pot.

2. Pour in about 2 level tablespoons of coffee powder, and when the water comes to a boil, use a flat bamboo piece to gently press down the coffee powder. Do not stir, otherwise the coffee will become bitter, sour or astringent.

3. Try to control the water temperature at about 90-95 degrees, and after boiling for about 100 seconds, quickly remove the siphon pot from the heat source. At the same time to cold wet cloth repeatedly wiped down, so that its rapid cooling, brewed coffee will quickly fall and present a large number of golden yellow sheep fine foam.

4. When the temperature of the coffee is slightly cooler, drink it directly. It is recommended that you do not add sugar or milk to the coffee to avoid destroying the true flavor of the coffee.