When you hear the phrase “animal poop coffee,” it probably brings to mind the popular Kopi Luwak, a coffee made from beans digested by civet cats. It’s a highly sought-after beverage, but the price tag can be as high as $600 per pound. The craze has caused many unsuspecting tourists to visit cafes in Indonesia, where they are duped into buying the coveted coffee and seeing civet cats that are being exploited for their labor.Source :https://thepoopcoffee.com
Kopi Luwak is a relatively new phenomenon, first developed in the early 2000s and currently grown in Chikmagalur, India and Taiwan. The process of growing kopi luwak involves cultivating the coffee cherries that monkeys eat, but don’t fully digest. The monkeys lick the berries and spit them out, and while their digestive system doesn’t break down the coffee beans, its enzymes do alter their chemical composition.
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The coffee cherries are collected by workers, who then sanitize the poop and extract the beans. They are washed, dried, pounded more to remove the remaining skins and sorted thoroughly before they are finally roasted. The taste and aroma of kopi luwak coffee is described as rich, smooth and earthy with notes of fruit and chocolate.
There are also several other types of animal processed coffee, including the more commonly known monkey poop coffee as well as bat poop coffee (also called coccinella maculata), which is produced when a particular species of Central American bat licks sugary mucilage from the coffee cherries and passes them through its digestive tract without digesting them. This method is more difficult to control, and the taste of the coffee can vary depending on the condition of the civet cat and its stress levels.