The origins of Kopi Luwak is closely related to the history of the coffee plant cultivation in Indonesia. At the beginning of the 18th century, the Dutch opened the commercial tree plantations in the colonies in the Dutch East Indies, especially in Java and Sumatra. [1] One of them is imported arabica coffee seeds from Yemen. In the era of "cultivation" or Cultuurstelsel (1830-1870), the Netherlands banned the indigenous plantation workers picking coffee fruit for personal consumption, but local residents want to try the famous drink coffee. Then the plantation workers eventually found that there is a kind of weasel who likes to eat the fruit of the coffee, but only the flesh is digested, the epidermis and the coffee beans are still intact and undigested. Luwak coffee beans in the dirt is then dipunguti, washed, roasted, ground, then brewed with hot water, it creates a Luwak coffee. [2] The news about the pleasures of aromatic coffee is finally wafted by a Dutch plantation owner, then the coffee is a favorite of people rich in the Netherlands. Because of its rarity and unusual manufacturing process, civet coffee is coffee that was expensive since colonial times.
Kopi Luwak original image
Luwak, or civet civet full, happy to look for fruits that are quite good and ripe fruit including coffee as food. Luwak coffee will choose fruit that really cook a meal, and afterward, the protected beans and undigested hard skin will come out with the civet droppings. Coffee beans like this, in the past often hunted coffee farmers, as is believed to originate from the best coffee beans and has been naturally fermented in the stomach mongoose. And supposedly, this civet coffee taste really different and special among the fans and connoisseurs of coffee.
Kopi Luwak is given by the President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, on his visit to Australia in early March 2010 the Australian press attention because, according to the Australian Quarantine Bureau does not pass through first. The press dubbed him dung diplomacy.
1. materials such as coffee beans that are old / true red / ripe on the tree
2. Fruit picking, the select the really ripe, given to the mongoose to eat, will choose the type of civet coffee beans are actually cooked, nice, and the oldest or the most sweet
3. after the above process is certainly the expected result is that out with the civet droppings coffee beans that can not be digested or call brenjel. like the picture below
4. Furthermore, the civet droppings collected and washed with running water, until completely clean, this process usually lasts long enough, until the beans get a leather wrapped horn yellowish white.
5. Once the coffee beans really clean, do the next in the process of drying / drying process that is absolutely perfect for reducing the water content, in order to facilitate the exfoliation process stretcher
6.The next horn exfoliation process, can be done the traditional way by pounding it is not too strong, most importantly his skin to peel.
7. and this from horn exfoliation process on coffee beans
8. the manual way, we separate the coffee beans one by one exfoliate the skin and which still contain the horn, the results are ari-skinned beans are silvery white. than 500 grams of coffee beans in the shell horn will produce coffee beans weighs 442 grams skinned ari.
9. then remove the epidermis in a manner in washing repeatedly until completely clean, and coffee beans that float to the exhaust
10.Furthermore, coffee beans that have been clean in the drain and dry in the sun until completely - completely dry membolaki way through it.
11. and this is the end result of processing the coffee beans into coffee beans luwakdan course of this process is still long, still necessary in roasting, milling / grinding, and of course in good brewed in the traditional way for brewed coffee, espresso, drip coffee, French press, and so on.
