Recently, Sloth was revisiting the Japanese drama "School Girl Etsuko Kono", in which an episode was written by a writer in the novel, "The description of kopi Luwak, the most advanced coffee bean, is a very suitable coffee to enjoy with the fresh morning air", so he was madly complained about by Kono.
So, what kind of coffee is this Kopi Luwak?
Kopi Luwak, translated as Chinese, is the musk cat coffee you hear most often, also known as cat coffee!
Kopi means coffee in Indonesian, and Luwak refers to a local animal in Indonesia called the musk cat. The musk cat is a nocturnal animal that, when it forages, can find the most ripe, sweetest and juicy coffee fruit in the coffee tree through its keen sense of smell. The fruit in its digestive system can be decomposed by enzymes to break off the outer peel pulp, but the coffee core (that is, we often call the coffee bean) it can not be digested, so it will be excreted.
During the process of digesting coffee cherries, the stomach acid of musk cats will decompose the bitter substances in the coffee beans, and the fermentation of special bacteria in the intestine will produce more unique flavors, and the taste will become more mellow and rounded.
Indonesian coffee farmers collect, dry, wash, hull, pick, and sell the coffee beans after the musk cat has been digested.
It is said that a pound can sell for $600! It is also a tribute to the Dutch royal family that year, in some five-star restaurants, a cup of musk cat coffee can go to 30 US dollars!
Among the many musk cat coffee, the most expensive is the Indonesian wild raw beans, followed by the Philippines, Vietnam is cheaper. However, there are also many places that sell musk cat coffee, which is not eaten by wild musk cats, but artificially raised.
What do you think? Isn't that a bit of a heartbeat?
But! Lazy is very strong super disapproval, do not recommend everyone to drink cat coffee!
First of all, let's talk about the wild, wild musk cat mouth, only eat ripe sweet coffee cherries, and finally discharge coffee beans, as if there is no problem, but wild musk cats can eat, the amount of coffee cherries discharged is small, commercialization is difficult, so there will be such expensive cat coffee. However, there are many bacteria in wild animals, how can you ensure the hygiene of the coffee it pulls out?
Well, then choose artificially fed musk cats, this bacteria should be less, and the yield can be guaranteed!
Yes, yes, artificial feeding production is guaranteed, but in order to ensure this yield, these musk cats will be forced to eat and eat every day! Musk cat is an omnivore ah friends, people do not rely on coffee fruit to survive, people's staple food is birds, insects, coffee fruit is its small snack!
Originally the musk cat eating coffee cherries is to pick delicious to eat, artificial feeding, no matter how good you are, whether you are mature, let the musk cat eat it and then say it. Try to think about it, someone has been forcing you to eat only one thing, whether it is cooked or not, whether it is rotten or not, anyway, you will give me food, other things are not allowed to eat, you can eat only this, after eating every day to excrete it regularly! In the long run, your physical and mental health will also have an impact, right? The same is true of musk cats, and the environment they live in is not woods, grasslands, or a small cage. There are a lot of musk cats that have been down for a long time, their physical and mental conditions are declining day by day, and there are even stress reactions, not only tearing their companions, but also self-harming, hunger strikes, ending their own lives...
Little lazy think that there are so many delicious coffees, have the financial ability to buy musk cat coffee, we might as well change to the Blue Mountain of The Summer, isn't it better? There is no need to mutilate these small animals for their own selfish desires!
If you like to drink mellow, full-bodied coffee, Mantening, Blue Mountain coffee can be, there is really no need to drink cat coffee, brothers, there is really no need...