Civet Coffee

Civet Coffee is brewed using coffee beans taken from the remaining dirt mongoose / palm civet. Coffee beans are believed to have a different flavor after being eaten and passed through the digestive tract mongoose. The fame of this coffee in Southeast Asia has long been known, but only became widely known in gourmet coffee enthusiasts after its publication in the 1980s. Beans are the most expensive in the world, reaching USD 100 per 450 grams.
The origin of Luwak coffe is closely linked to the history of coffee cultivation in Indonesia. Inthe early 18th century, the Dutch commercial crop plantations in their colony in Dutch East Indies, especially in Java and Sumatra. One is the Arabica coffee seedlings imported from Yemen. In the era of "Cultivation" or Cultuurstelsel (1830-1870), the Dutch forbade native plantation workers picking coffee berries for personal consumption, but locals will want to try the famous coffee drinks. Then plantation workers eventually find that there is a kind of weasel who likes to eat the coffee fruit, but only the flesh is digested, and the coffee bean husk still intact and undigested. Coffee beans in civet droppings then be collected, washed, roasted, ground, then brewed with hot water, it creates a civet.The news about the pleasures of aromatic coffee is finally wafted by Dutch citizens planter, then the coffee then this becomes the craze rich Dutch. Because of its rarity and unusual manufacturing process, civet coffee is coffee that was expensive since the colonial era.
Mongoose is the original image

Luwak or  civet, love to look for fruits that are quite good and cook including coffee fruit as food. With a sensitive sense of smell, civet coffee will choose fruit that really mature optimal as food, and thereafter, the beans are still protected and undigested hard skin will come out with the civet droppings. This occurs because mongoose have a simple digestive system, so it is hard foods like coffee beans are not digested. Beans like this, in the past until now often hunted coffee farmers, because it is believed to come from the finest coffee beans and has been fermented naturally in the digestive system of the civet. The aroma and taste of civet coffee is so special and perfect among the fans and coffee lovers around the world.