Kopi Liwak, or civet coffee, is one of the world`s most expensive and low-production varieties of coffee. It is made from beans of coffee berries which have been eaten by the Asian Palm Civet and other related civet eats the berries for their fleshy pulp. In its stomach, proteolytic enzymes seep into the beans, making shorter peptides and more free amino acid. Passing through a civet`s intestines the beans are then defecated, keeping their shape. After gathering, through washing, sun drying, light roasting and brewing, these beans yield an aromatic coffee with much less bitterness. This coffee is widely noted as the most expensive coffee in the world with prices reaching $160 per pound.
Kopi Luwak is produced mainly on the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago. It is also product in the Philippines( Where the product is called motit coffee in the Cordillera, kape alamid in Tagalog areas) and also produced in English translation of its Vietnamese name ca phe Chon, where popular, chemically simulated versions are also produced. However, Vietnam has 2 farms with 300 wild civets in chon coffee. The farmers collect the coffee seeds and produce only 300 kg of authentic Vietnamese chon coffee. The civets in the wild and are fed beef. The processed civet beans are imported from the UK to the farmer`s sole UK supplier.
野生麝香貓喜好的食物很特別，它們總是喜歡挑些成熟、香甜、飽滿、多汁的咖啡果實。但是由于它們無法消化堅硬的生咖啡豆，所以會被原封不動的將其排出體外。然而咖啡豆在麝香貓的腸胃里經過發酵，已經產生了神奇變化，味道特別香濃醇厚。這種特殊風味是其他咖啡豆難以比擬的。但是，當人們把野生麝香貓捉回家之后，生產的咖啡味道會遜色很多。
麝香貓咖啡的歷史
The origin of Kopi Luwak is connected with the history of coffee production in Indonesia. In the early 18th century the Dutch established the cash-crop coffee plantations in their colonies on the Dutch East Indies islands of Java and Sumatra, including Arabica coffee introduced from Yemen. During the era of Cultuurstelsel (1830-1870), the Dutch prohibited the native farmers and plantation workers from picking coffee fruits for their own use. Still, the native farmers wanted to have a taste of famed coffee beverage. Soon, the natives learned that a certain species of musang or Luwak ( Asian Palm Civet) consuming the coffee fruits, yet they left the coffee seeds undigested in their droppings. The natives collected these Luwaks` coffee seed droppings, then cleaned, roasted and ground them to make their own coffee fruits, yet they left the coffee seeds undigested in their droppings. The natives collected these beverage. The fame of aromatic civet coffee spread from locals to Dutch plantation owners and soon became their favorite, yet because of this rarity and unusual process, the civet coffee was expensive even in colonial times.
雖然早在幾百年前，印度尼西亞的農民就開始生產麝香貓咖啡，但真正讓它走向世界的是美國人。在《國家地理雜志》中看到關于麝香貓咖啡的報道之后，美國的蒙塔納斯公司真正對它產生了興趣，并花了七年功夫才找到比較穩定的供貨來源。然后，這種咖啡才漸漸為全世界的人們所熟知。
Something about Kopi Luwak 關于麝香貓咖啡的一些知識
The tradition coffee stretches back hundreds of years to the time of Dutch rule in Indonesia.
麝香貓咖啡的歷史可追溯到幾百年前荷蘭人統治印度尼西亞的時候。
The enzymes in Civet`s stomach remove some of the bitter coffee taste.
麝香貓胃里的酶提純了咖啡的苦味。
Having nibbled off the thin outer layer of the fruit, the civets put their digestive juices to work.
在咬掉咖啡果實外面一層薄薄的殼后，麝香貓把咖啡豆吞入肚中讓消化液進行消化。
500g of the feces of civet cats can extract about 150 grams of coffee beans, the roasting process can also cause 20% of the loss.
500克麝香貓排泄物中只能提取出約150克咖啡豆，在烘焙過程中還會產生20%的損耗。
The least production of coffee in the world is “Kopi Luwak”, a bag of 50 g packing of coffee beans value 1500 yuan, can only bubble 3-4 cups of coffee.
“貓屎咖啡”是世界產量最少的咖啡，一袋50克包裝的咖啡豆價值1500元，只能泡3-4杯咖啡。
Wild civet cats are good at packing fruit coffee of good, and let the coffee has the characteristics of excellence.
野生麝香貓善于挑選好的咖啡果實，從而讓這種咖啡有著卓爾不凡的特點。
Kopi Luwak presents a lot of golden yellow cotton fine bubble.
貓屎咖啡會呈現大量的金黃色綿細泡沫。
