Saturday, May 21, 2011

Why Coffee Luwak is Very Valuable ?

 CIVET COFFEE found In 1830, by the Dutch-owned coffee plantation workers. and began to widely known since as the most lavish gifts on those days. 

Strong coffee aroma and taste of coffee that was so soft as to make Coffee Luwak coffee from time to time idol, so step Luwak coffee and so on can be difficult because the civet coffee is coffee that comes from animal waste called mongoose or Paradoxorus hermaproditus.
Luwak coffee is like treasures formerly always in hurry by coffee lovers they must get out into the coffee plantations in convincing many of the animal mongoose, some are deliberately go into the forest to get some lumps this animal waste containing coffee beans.
Mongoose animal life in forests and wilderness full of the resources were in the form of fruits, animals that are smaller than him, such as chickens, ducks and others. Mongoose animal is wild animals are active at night and always hide when met with something they did not recognize, including humans.
Difficult and rare find in the market make Luwak coffee became the most expensive coffee in the world and number 2 most expensive foods in the world according to Forbes magazine, formerly average monthly Luwak coffee just as much as 100 kilos to 200 kilos in circulation in the International market.
More and more demand for civet coffee from the international community to make the Indonesian government through the Indonesian state-owned plantation companies do this mongoose animal breeding to meet the demand from outside the State but they were only able to not more than 1 ton per month.
Difficult to get civet coffee in the world making coffee entrepreneurs from various countries directly looking into the various regions in Indonesia, so it makes the coffee farmers and local residents in the area of ​​forest plantations and there are many coffee plantations began to hunt down the mass Luwak coffee.

 source : http://www.topkopi.co.cc/ and picture from  http://chenungkopiluwak.com 

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