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"Kopi
Luwak"
Luwak
Coffee
Arabica
& Robusta
Coffee
from
Indonesia
& other counties
Wikipedia Infos about Kopi Luwak:
Kopi
Luwak (pronounced [ˈkopi ˈluwak]) or Civet coffee is coffee made from
coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the
digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus).
The civets eat the
berries, but the
beans inside pass through their system undigested. This process takes
place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi
in the Indonesian Archipelago, in the Philippines (where the product is
called Kape Alamid) and in East Timor (locally called
kafé-laku). Vietnam has a similar type of coffee, called
weasel
coffee, which is made from coffee berries which have been regurgitated
by local weasels.
In actuality the "weasel"
is just the local version of the Asian Palm Civet. Origin and
production
Kopi is the Indonesian word for coffee, and luwak is a local name of
the Asian Palm Civet. The raw, red coffee berries are part of its
normal diet, along with insects, small mammals, small reptiles, eggs
and nestlings of birds, and other fruit.
The inner bean of the
berry is not digested, but it has been proposed
that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavor by
breaking down the proteins that give coffee its bitter taste. The beans
are defecated still covered in some inner layers of the berry.
The beans are washed, and
given only a light roast so as to not destroy
the complex flavors that develop through the process. Some sources
claim that the beans may be regurgitated instead of defecated.
In early days, the beans would be collected in the wild from a
'latrine', or a specific place where the civet would defecate as a
means to mark its territory, and these latrines would be a predictable
place for local gatherers to find the beans.
More
commonly today, captured civets are fed raw berries, the feces
produced are then processed and the coffee beans offered for
sale.[citation needed]
Economics
Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for
between $120 and $600 USD per pound, and is sold mainly in Japan and
the United States.
It is increasingly becoming available elsewhere, though supplies are
limited: only 1,000 pounds (450 kg) at most make it into the world
market each year (Pg 23, The Gospel According to Starbucks; Sweet). One
small cafe, the Heritage Tea Rooms, in the hills outside Townsville in
Queensland, Australia has Kopi Luwak coffee on the menu at A$50.00
(=US$48.00) per cup, selling approximately four cups a week, which has
gained nationwide Australian press.
[1]. In April 2008, the brasserie of Peter Jones department store in
London's Sloane Square starting selling a blend of Kopi Luwak and Blue
Mountain called Caffe Raro for £50 (=US$99.00) a cup.
[1]
A 2004 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) scare led to thousands
of these civets in China being exterminated,
[2][3] but the demand for the coffee was not affected.
Research
& Media
Dr.
Massimo + baby Luwak - Oprah-US-TV-Show with Kopi
Luwak
A
hypothesis to justify this coffee's reputation proposes that the beans
are of superior quality before they are even ingested.[citation needed]
At any given point during a harvest, some coffee berries are not quite-
or over-ripe, while others are just right. The palm civet evolved as an
omnivore that naturally eats fruit and passes undigested material as a
natural link to disperse seeds in a forest ecosystem.
Where coffee plants have been introduced into their habitat, civets
only forage on the most ripe berries, digest the fleshy outer layer,
and later excrete the seeds eventually used for human consumption.
Thus, when the fruit is at its peak, the seeds (or beans) within are
equally so, with the expectation that this will come through in the
taste of a freshly-brewed cup.
As this may be true for the beans derived from wild-collected civet
feces, farm raised civets are likely fed beans of varying quality and
ripeness, so one would expect the taste of farm-raised beans to be less.
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