Kopi Luwak coffee is brewed using coffee beans were taken from the remaining dirt mongoose / palm civet. Coffee beans are believed to have a different flavor after being eaten and passed through the digestive tract mongoose. This coffee fame in Southeast Asia has long been known, but only became widely known in the gourmet coffee enthusiasts after its publication in the 1980s. The beans are the most expensive in the world, reaching $ 100 per 450 grams.
History
The origin of Kopi Luwak is closely linked with the history of coffee cultivation in Indonesia. At the beginning of the 18th century, the Dutch opened a commercial crop plantations in their colonies in the East Indies, especially in Java and Sumatra. One is the Arabica coffee seedlings imported from Yemen. In the era of "Cultivation" or Cultuurstelsel (1830-1870), the Netherlands prohibit indigenous plantation worker picking coffee berries for personal consumption, but local residents want to try the famous coffee drinks. Then the plantation workers eventually find that there is a kind of weasel who likes to eat the coffee fruit, but only the flesh are digested, the epidermis and the coffee bean is still intact and undigested. Coffee beans in these civet droppings later to be collected, washed, roasted, ground, and brewed with hot water, it creates civet coffee. News of the aromatic coffee enjoyment was finally captured by the Dutch citizens planter, then later this coffee be the craze of the rich Netherlands. Because of its rarity and the manufacturing process is unusual, even civet coffee is coffee that expensive since the colonial era.
Civet, mongoose or weasel full, happy to look for fruits that are good enough and cook including coffee fruit as food. With a sensitive sense of smell, mongoose would pick coffee cherries are really mature optimal as food, and thereafter, the beans were still protected and undigested hard skin will come out with the civet droppings. This happens because the mongoose have a simple digestive system, so the hard foods such as coffee beans are not digested. Beans like this, in the past until now often hunted coffee farmers, because it is believed to come from the best coffee beans and fermented naturally in the digestive system of the civet. Aroma and taste of civet coffee it feels special and perfect among the fans and coffee lovers worldwide.
Kopi Luwak is given by the President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, on his visit to Australia in early March 2010 to the attention of the Australian press because, according to the Australian Quarantine Bureau not through examination beforehand. The press dubbed dung diplomacy.
