Must-Buy Coffee in Indonesia: How to Identify Authentic Civet Coffee - A Complete Guide
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FrontStreet Coffee - How to Identify Real and Fake Kopi Luwak
With the rising value of Kopi Luwak, many places in Indonesia have started to cage civets and force-feed them coffee beans. Some people also feed coffee beans to civet cats to pass them off as genuine Kopi Luwak.
How to Identify Real Civet Coffee?
Characteristics of Kopi Luwak Flavor:
- The unique body odor of the civet cat itself.
- The digestive process consumes a large amount of sugar.
The body odor is quite distinctive and can't be replicated. As for the sugar consumption, what flavor impact does it have? With less sugar, there's less bitterness formed during the caramelization process in roasting. Having a special aroma without bitterness makes many people find it delicious. Delicious and rare means expensive.
This is why many people use civet cats to substitute for palm civets to create what they claim is Kopi Luwak.
For authentic civet coffee (Kopi Luwak) raw beans, pay attention to their shape: clean and easily separable.
Summary
Civet cats primarily feed on coffee berries as their main diet during the bean maturation season. After complete digestion, the sugar is consumed, and the beans in the feces lose their stickiness. The coffee beans don't stick together, and once dried, they quickly separate into loosely distributed individual beans.
Knowledge Point
In the early 18th century, Dutch people established coffee plantations in the Indonesian colonies of Sumatra and Java, where mature coffee beans became a favorite food of civet cats.
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