How did the cat excrement coffee come from?

This coffee comes from the excrement of an animal called civet (commonly known as civet in Indonesia). This wild civet likes to eat rich and juicy coffee fruits, but the hard nuts (raw beans) can't be digested. It is discharged with feces, and after cleaning, it becomes Kopi Luwak coffee raw beans! So many people call it "cat shit" coffee.

Indonesians found that the coffee beans fermented by civet cats were particularly thick and mellow, so they collected civet cats' excrement, screened out coffee beans and brewed them for drinking. Due to the scarcity of output, unique fermentation technology and completely different flavor from ordinary coffee.

Traditionally, coffee cherries are washed or sun-dried to remove the peel, pulp and sheepskin layer, and finally the coffee beans are taken out. However, Luwak uses natural fermentation in the body to take out coffee beans.

Extended data:

Indonesian coconut cat is an omnivore, not only eating seeds for a living, but also eating insects, snakes, birds, amphibians and reptiles. Therefore, the feces discharged by real wild coconut cats will be mixed with various substances. There are farmers in Indonesia who catch coconut cats and feed them to coffee beans. But there are some differences between artificial cultivation and natural cultivation.

Civet cats like to choose the most mature, sweet, full and juicy coffee fruit in coffee trees as food. However, after the coffee fruit passes through its digestive system, only the pulp outside the fruit is digested, and the hard coffee beans are then excreted intact by the digestive system of civet cats.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-civet cat