What is Kopi Luwak?
Kopi Luwak is a type of coffee. It is made of coffee beans that have been consumed and then excreted with a common palm catenet. Coffee beans are exposed to a process inside Civil, which partly prepares beans. They can only be found in the areas of Indonesia and the Philippines, where both coffee plantations and native catet are present. These unusual beans are considered to be the most expensive coffee in the world that produce coffee with a smooth, chocolate taste and very little bitterness. It is not a cat, but it is a night carnivore from part of Asia. This diet of this mammal consists of insects, small animals and fruit. Like many animals that eat fruit, she prefers the fruit she matured. This leads to a common palm catet to eat a coffee berry fruit - that are ripe and ready to harvest.
As soon as civet eats coffee berries, the animal gastrointestinal tract passes through. The digestive enzymes erode the outer layer of berries and reveal a hard endocarp layer of coffee beans. The digestive process also partially leavenThe coffee beans. Finally, the coffee beans of the Kopi Luwak are excreted in the Civet droppings, where they are collected by local harvesters. The liability will separate the coffee beans from the excrement, clean the beans and remove the outer shell before baking.
Conventional coffee beans have a higher protein content than the coffee beans of Kopi Luwak. Proteins are one of the factors that affect the bitterness of coffee. Coffee cooked from these beans also has less acidity than conventional coffee. The lower protein content, the less acidity and partially fermented coffee beans creates a distinctive, smooth taste of coffee by kopi Luwak. This distinctive taste together with the process would be obtained by coffee beans is what makes this coffee so expensive.
The need for coffee beans to pass through the digestive system of conventional palm civils, means that it is very unlikely that this coffee could sometimes be commercially made on a large scale. Was research to make pHe tasted to reproduce this coffee using artificial remedies and submitted beans for digestive enzymes. Experiments have not yet been able to reliably duplicate the unique taste of this coffee. Coffee is available locally in areas where it is harvested, and in some special cafes.