Eva, the owner of "Te Cafe", is a coffee lover who collects rare products all over the world every year. She told reporters that "cat excrement coffee" was a tribute from Indonesia to the Dutch royal family. At that time, the industry regarded this kind of coffee called "cat excrement" as a joke, and people gradually became interested in this kind of "cat excrement coffee" until National Geographic magazine made a special report on it. "Cat excrement coffee" is the least produced coffee in the world. A bag of 50 grams of coffee beans costs more than 800 yuan, and only 4-5 cups of coffee can be brewed. Converted, the price of a cup is about 200 yuan RMB. Kopi luwak e-commerce Shangpin Cafe, a small gift box produced by Fireboat Group, Indonesia's largest coffee supplier, costs 50 grams in 600 yuan, and the packaging is extremely luxurious, while 100 grams costs more than 2,000 yuan, and the global annual output of wild products does not exceed 400 kilograms. Now villagers in these areas not only collect wild Rwaka feces, but also start to keep Rwaka in captivity. In front of Rwaka stood a large basin of picked coffee fruits. Hungry Rwaka had to eat all the coffee nuts indiscriminately. The Rwaka coffee produced in this way is naturally greatly reduced in taste. "Rare things are precious", which leads to the high price of civet cats, a rare treasure. I'm afraid you have to prepare 50 pounds for a cup of this coffee, and you may not find it everywhere.
★ Shanghai World Expo 20 10 sponsored by Huochuan Group 12g coffee made of cat excrement coffee powder, one cup of 380 yuan, and the daily limit of 12 cups is in short supply.
★ In Bali, a cup costs more than 200,000 rupiah (more than 200,000 rupiah), equivalent to RMB 150.
★ America 1 kg cat excrement coffee beans is as high as 1200 USD. In the international market, it is always around $65,438+0,000.
★ In Britain, a cup costs 50 pounds (RMB 500 yuan).
In Indonesian, "Kopi" means coffee, and "Luwak" is the name of "civet cat" commonly known by Indonesians. It is said that the annual output of this coffee does not exceed 500 pounds, and the price per pound ranges from 300 dollars to 800 dollars, depending on the year, because there is no fixed output every year.
In the international market, Luwak coffee has always been a veritable luxury. One of the main reasons is that it is not people who make this coffee, but wild animals. Traditionally, coffee fruit is washed with water or sunlight to remove the peel, pulp and sheepskin layer, and finally the coffee beans are taken out, but Luwak coffee is made by natural fermentation of wild animals. More importantly, these wild animals only exist in these small islands in Indonesia. The time and place where they haunt are mysterious, and their numbers are decreasing day by day. Although Indonesia claims that the number of "civet cats" has been rising steadily after protection and artificial breeding, this thing that lures human taste buds by the digestive system cannot be compared with the products of the industrial age.
Civet cats are omnivores. They are withdrawn by nature and like to walk at night. They live in tropical rain forests, subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests, mountain shrubs or hills, mountains and grasses below 2000 meters above sea level. Its food includes fruits and seeds of small mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, crustaceans, insects and plants. Civet cats like to choose the most mature, sweet, full and juicy coffee fruit in the coffee tree as food, and the coffee fruit passes through its digestive system, only the pulp outside the fruit is digested, and the hard coffee beans are excreted intact by the digestive system of civet cats. This is the "natural fermentation method" that was once sneered at by Americans. It is said that when Americans heard that there was such a way to make coffee, it was a fable. It was not until it was reported by National Geographic magazine that they became interested in it.
The most luxurious coffee in the world, the most expensive coffee in the world, the rarest coffee in the world …
Kopi Luwak is always described in this way, which sounds like a boring anecdote.
People can't help but think of a sentence by Wilde;
People always pay too much attention to the price of things, but often ignore their own value ... Forget the clumsy and useless embellishments in rumors.
Let's start a magical cat poop coffee trip ... caffeine. Indonesian coffee has the taste of mud and traditional Chinese medicine, and its consistency is also the highest in all continents. But "cat excrement coffee" has a stronger earthy smell, a consistency closer to syrup, and a very special fragrance. After drinking, there will be a faint mint coolness between your mouth, which is the "exclusive taste" that ordinary coffee does not have. After drinking a cup, taking a deep breath or taking a sip of cold water, you can obviously feel a cool breath from your mouth to your throat, just like eating a mint throat lozenge.
Experts say that there is a gland near the sex organ of the civet cat in Indonesia, which secretes milky oil and has always been a precious raw material in the perfume industry. Even Shakespeare's play King Lear has such a dialogue: "Please give me some civet oil to inspire me." Others said, "This kind of coffee is unique and a specialty of Indonesia. Drinking it is like finding a diamond in a stone. " Because wild civets are obviously better at selecting good coffee berries, this coffee has extraordinary characteristics.