What is the name of the animal that eats coffee beans. The most expensive luwak coffee in the world (price)
This is the most expensive luwak coffee made from animal droppings. This variety of coffee has useful properties, pleasant aroma and unusual taste, which are due to fluffy animals of the viverrid family. They are called musangs, martens or civet. The real original luwak, or poop coffee, is made in Indonesia, where civets live in the wild. There they feed on fresh ripe coffee fruits, plucking them directly from the branches.
In the process of eating a coffee berry, the luwak animal eats only the pulp, and the grain enters the stomach and intestines as a whole. There it is processed with gastric secretions containing a special enzyme civet, which subsequently gives the grains a special delicate taste without excessive bitterness. Locals collect animal droppings, wash and dry in the sun.
With this specific processing method, the most expensive poop coffee in Indonesia is obtained, the very same luwak coffee. The original coffee has an exceptional taste and aroma. The cost of coffee from excrement is about $ 100 per cup of the finished drink.
And this is not surprising. Indeed, in Indonesia, where coffee is made from poop, musangs live in freedom in natural conditions. These fluffy creators of the most expensive litter coffee don't even breed in captivity. Therefore, the answer to the question of how much luwak coffee costs is unambiguous - very, very expensive. Animals select the most delicious and ripe berries, and from 1 kg of berries you will get only 50g of valuable coffee beans. It is also interesting that the enzyme necessary for obtaining Luwak coffee is produced in the body of civets only 6 months a year - therefore, local residents receive coffee from excrement only for half a year. The production of the most expensive coffee from litter is no more than a few hundred kilograms in one year from all over Sumatra.
Surprisingly, Vietnam is the second largest coffee producer in the world. The first, of course, is Brazil: the unchanging homeland of both coffee and TV shows. Now Vietnam produces about 18% of all coffee in the world. And it all started, of course, with the French, who in 1857 first brought coffee beans to the territory of their colony.
In addition to the fact that there is a lot of coffee here, it is roasted in unusual ways (for example, with sweet syrups), thanks to which it acquires a unique sweet chocolate taste. And they serve coffee in any cafe: thick and fragrant, with ice and a glass of delicious green tea in addition. Coffee is the best.
Typical Vietnamese coffee shop: price for a cup of coffee - 12,000 VND ($ 0.5), green tea with ice - free
Ice coffee with condensed milk: an unforgettable taste!
There are two types of grains in Vietnam: robusta and arabica. Robusta is much more popular, you can often find blends based on robusta with a little addition of arabica. In Nha Trang, you can find many shops on the street where the coffee beans you choose will be ground right in front of you and sealed in a bag - in my opinion, a great gift for family and friends!
There are a great many such stores: choose grains (you can mix varieties in any proportions), and they are ground and sealed right in front of you
The most popular brand of coffee in Vietnam can be called Me Trang (read Mechang). Shops of this company are found in tourist Nha Trang on every corner. Mechang coffee is really tasty, but we didn’t notice much difference compared to little-known brands of coffee with.
The most famous coffee brand in Vietnam today is Me Trang
In addition to Robusta and Arabica coffee, such a variety of coffee as Luwak (or Luwak) is found everywhere in Vietnam. These are ordinary coffee beans that have passed through the gastrointestinal tract of one very cute furry animal.
What is this super trendy animal dung luwak coffee in Vietnam? How does it smell, and most importantly, how did people get to this point?
Who is a luwak animal
The official name of this cute babies is musangs or palm martens.
Curious
And infinitely cute
These animals simply adore ripe coffee berries. After they ingest the coffee cherries, the pulp surrounding the coffee beans themselves is digested in their stomach, and the beans are passed out unchanged during a bowel movement (sorry for such details). After that, people collect valuable cargo, wash it and dry it. We hasten to assure you that there is no expected unpleasant odor after these procedures.
Valuable musang excrement before washing
The animal is especially valued for the fact that while in its gastrointestinal tract, coffee beans are fermented in a special way, due to which they lose the inherent bitterness of coffee. And the taste of coffee becomes sour.
Luwak coffee beans after washing
Right on the farm they can fry it
Luwak coffee beans after roasting
There is a legend about how people first learned the unique properties of luwak coffee. A misfortune happened in one poor family: wild masangs (or tsivengs) ate the entire crop of ripe coffee beans for sale. The family was very sad, but then they noticed the excrement of animals, and in them - undigested grains. Out of desperation, these grains were washed, roasted and passed off as ordinary coffee. What was their surprise when the taste of it turned out to be simply delicious!
Today, the production of luwak coffee is a complex and expensive process. Wild animals are caught and settled on the farm. They produce a special enzyme only 6 months of the year, so the rest of the time they are fed ordinary food, usually vegetables and fruits. When the time comes, all other food from their diet is removed and fed exclusively with coffee fruits. Since it is quite expensive to feed the animals, often they are simply caught in the right season, and after the production of coffee they are released to be caught the following year. In addition, breeding them on a farm will not work: these animals do not breed in captivity.
We saw luwak coffee farms in Vietnam and Bali, and it was a pity for the animals everywhere: such living machines operated by man.
Close animal mink on the farm
By the way, we heard that they began to produce coffee from the excrement of an elephant and even birds. The process is approximately the same as with musangs, but the volumes, of course, are many times greater. We have not seen such coffee in Vietnam, but they say that it is as tasty as luwak. If so, maybe soon furry animals will stop being tortured on farms? After all, one elephant can produce 100 times more delicious coffee than a small rodent.
How to brew luwak coffee
Like ordinary coffee, luwak in Europe or Asia is often brewed in Turks (this method is called "oriental").
In Vietnam, they prefer a different method: small metal cups with a sieve and a press, where coffee is poured with hot water, and it is infused, dripping into a glass drop by drop. We liked this method, we bought ourselves such devices and now we always carry them with us.
How much is vietnamese luwak coffee
Today in Asia, many packs are sold with the image of the musang animal (the one that produces expensive grains) on the package. The cost of such packs starts from $ 2 per 500 gr. But we hasten to assure you that real luwak grains in such packs are no more than 1-5%, and maybe not at all. Often, under the guise of luwak coffee, artificially fermented coffee is sold in packs, which has nothing to do with cute animals.
Usually, luwak coffee is mixed with robusta and sold. The more luwak grains in a pack, the more expensive it will be. The price of pure kopi-luwak coffee in beans in Vietnam is about $ 1000 . And the cost of 1 cup of luwak coffee in Europe can reach $ 90 !
The price of luwak coffee in Russia today reaches 3700 rubles per 100 gr. or 24 "800 per 1 kg. We quote these prices from a specialized site that sells this particular type of coffee in Russia luwak.rf.
Video about real Luwak coffee from Indonesia:
We bought such packs in Vietnam and for only $ 2, most likely they do not contain real luwak coffee beans, but the coffee is unrealistically delicious:
High-quality coffee is not the cheapest pleasure. Therefore, the product that is sold at a low price does not inspire confidence, since it is most often a fake or made from low-quality raw materials. However, the prices for coffee from animal feces surprise and perplex the average inhabitants of the planet. Only a few can afford this exclusive product.
The world's most expensive coffee made from animal feces
It is difficult to rank the most expensive types of coffee obtained from animal waste products. However, roughly it looks like this:
1. Terra Nera from the feces of palm civets. The cost of 1000 g is impressive and reaches a value of more than 20 thousand dollars. It is sold only in one of the stores in the capital of Great Britain in an exclusive package made of special thin silver paper.
2. Black Ivory - a drink made from elephant droppings. The cost of such coffee is more than 1100 dollars per 1 kg.
3. Luwak - coffee from the feces of animals from Vietnam. Not everyone can afford elite Vietnamese coffee, since 1 kg of roasted raw materials with the name Luwak costs around 250 - 1200 dollars. You can try it in very expensive restaurants or buy it in the country of its production.
There are also quite a few other expensive but less popular coffees.
What animals "make" elite coffees
Most elite varieties of coffee can be obtained by humans with the help of animals. Some of them have unique extrasensory perception and can find the finest grains. The most famous helpers in this matter are lemurs, monkeys, bats and even elephants. From an aesthetic point of view, it is difficult for many to consume a drink made from grains that have once been in animal droppings. However, coffee lovers claim that the taste of such drinks is amazing and cannot be compared with anything else.
Knowing which animals make delicious coffee from the feces of animals, it is easier to navigate the prices and product names.
Elite Vietnamese coffee drink - Luwak from the litter of the animal musang
Indonesian Luwak coffee helps produce a specific type of marten called musangs. Their habitat covers many regions of Southeast and South Asia. All gourmets agree that such coffee from Vietnam is not ashamed to serve even to the king. The volume of production is small and does not exceed a few hundred kilograms per year.
Coffee fruits are the favorite food of Malayan martens. They are very picky in their food, they will never eat green grains, but will choose the most mature and tasty. During the day, a marten can eat about 900 - 1000 g of grains, more than 90% of which will be digested in the intestines of animals, and only 5 - 10% will come out in its original form, but without pulp.
During their stay in the digestive system of the animal, the fruits of the coffee tree are processed by gastric juice and special enzymes, which gives them unique taste properties.
Interestingly, grains from the feces of females are selected only for 6 months, and the rest of the time, the "girls" do not produce an odorous enzyme.
The collected grains are thoroughly washed, dried and roasted using a special technology. Details of the production and processing of raw materials are kept secret, but manufacturers promise the purity and high quality of the finished product. The drink from it has an elegant bouquet of flavors of sweet caramel, delicate vanilla and bitter dark chocolate.
Today, this coffee is trying to be produced on an industrial scale. However, such a drink is different from the one made naturally. Apparently, in captivity, animals are not so generous with enzymes.
"Black tusk" from elephant feces
This coffee is considered one of the most exclusive. It is sold only in a few stores in Thailand - the birthplace of this brand - in a total amount of about 48 - 49 kg per year. These figures are not surprising, because in order to get 1000 g of coffee from elephant feces, the Thai giant needs to eat at least 34 kg of selected Arabica coffee fruits grown in the highlands. The process of collecting raw materials is unpleasant: after defecation, the wives of elephant mahouts collect it and carefully sort it out, looking for the surviving grains. Then the raw material is washed and transported to another place for further drying.
Grains that are not digested in the elephant's body completely lose their bitterness, as the stomach acid breaks down proteins that give the drink a bitter aftertaste.
Instead of the lost bitterness, the fruits of the coffee tree are saturated with the aromas of bananas, sugar cane and other tropical vegetation, which are so abundant in the menu of the animal. The grains are in the stomach of an elephant for more than 20 - 30 hours, and this time is enough for them to completely change their properties. The resulting coffee has a soft, rich, delicate, slightly sweet taste without the usual bitterness.
You can try such an exclusive drink in just a few resorts in the Maldives. The grains are always ground right in front of the client so that he can fully appreciate the taste of the drink. A cup of freshly brewed coffee costs at least $50.
Terra Nera from palm civet feces
Coffee of this brand is rightfully considered the most expensive, as the amount of the sold product is only 45 kg per year, which is due to the unique method of its production. This coffee is produced by palm civet, which lives in the southeastern part of Peru. The grains, having been inside these animals and coming out along with excrement, acquire a unique aroma of cocoa and hazelnuts. The collected raw materials are selected, cleaned and roasted to the desired condition. Ready coffee is divided into 6 roast classes, and this must be indicated on the packaging.
The cost of one package starts from 11 thousand dollars. All coffee bags are tied with laces with 24-carat gold tags, which are engraved with information about the manufacturer and the degree of roasting.
Blue Mountain coffee from Jamaica
This coffee is obtained in the traditional way. However, everything affects the taste: the unique composition of the soil, the direction of the winds, and the location of the plantations. The grains combine different tastes - from bitterness to sweetness with sourness. The aroma of the drink is unusual and resembles the smell of fresh nectarines.
More than 85% of the product produced in Jamaica is sold in Japan, so it is problematic to purchase such a drink in our country. In addition, 1 kg of finished raw materials costs about 27 thousand rubles.
Not everyone succeeds in trying all exotic types of coffee. In addition to the high cost, there is a great danger of acquiring a fake. Therefore, it is better to try such a drink in those countries where it is produced.
Most tourists plan holidays in Vietnam in advance, starting to collect the necessary information about the country from various sources for a long time. Very often, future travelers are faced with the assertion that the most delicious coffee is grown and prepared in Vietnam. How true is this information and what does Vietnamese coffee taste like?
Vietnamese coffee Luwak: unusual production
The animal that "processes" coffee inside itself.Luwak coffee in Vietnam is a kind of “highlight” of the country. This coffee is one of the most expensive and unique in the world. And the point here is not at all the variety of the plant itself. The secret lies in the unusual production technology.
Small animals live in Vietnam, which have several names: someone calls them musangs, someone calls them civets, and someone calls them palm martens. Their size is small - about the same as that of an ordinary cat, and the colors of the animals resemble gray foxes.
These wonderful creatures of nature feed on berries that ripen on coffee trees. After digestion of food, civets remove droppings naturally, leaving undigested coffee beans in it. Specially selected employees who collect such droppings roam the territory where the musangs live, with containers, filling them with grains for the future aromatic drink.
Luwak coffee in Vietnam animals do not digest completely - only the upper shell of coffee beans breaks down in the stomach. The core itself only changes the chemical composition, after which the drink becomes softer, with a pleasant chocolate aftertaste. It is precisely due to the fact that the grains undergo a kind of “processing” in the stomachs of animals that the drink costs a lot of money, and not every tourist dares to try it.
The cost of Luwak coffee in Vietnam
Musang animal that eats coffee beans. Only these animals are involved in the manufacture of the Vietnamese drink Luwak, named after the fluffy animal - palm civet. Scientists have conducted many experiments with other animals, but the coffee beans collected from their droppings did not have such an unusual taste. Numerous laboratory procedures were also carried out, as a result of which the coffee beans were subjected to special processing. However, it was not possible to obtain such a taste as after digestion by civet.
All this greatly affects the cost of the finished drink. According to statistics, the cost of 100 g of Luwak coffee in online stores is about 3000-5000 rubles. In Vietnam itself, you can buy it almost everywhere.
Ready coffee, after musang, is collected by nursery workers. Of course, the local population often cashes in on tourists who dream of tasting this exotic drink, and offers them coffee at a fabulous price. Currently, 1 kg of such elite coffee costs about 1,000 US dollars.
Luwak coffee from Vietnam is the most expensive coffee harvested in the wild. There are some nuances to the search and collection of grains. It is because of the difficulty of collecting litter in recent years that the population of Vietnam began to build special farms where palm martens are bred and fed with coffee beans. This does not affect the taste of coffee in any way, because the animals still eat exclusively ripe coffee berries.
How to make Luwak coffee?
Luwak coffee brewing technology is different from the usual brewing method. In order for the drink to turn out to be the most aromatic and tasty, you need to take only freshly ground coffee. 
- In Vietnam, coffee is never made in Turks or coffee pots.
- Coffee is poured into a special filter.
- Pour boiling water over.
- Then they substitute a cup and wait for the drink to slowly collect in it, dripping one drop at a time.
How is coffee brewed in Vietnam in restaurants or cafes? With the help of the same special filters. If a client orders coffee in a restaurant, he will be served a cup with a filter, from which the desired drink slowly drips. Often they put a cup filled with green tea with ice nearby, and also bring a thermos of boiling water. At the request of the client, he can be served a vase with sugar, a glass with ice.
If a visitor to an establishment orders a complete set for himself, then his entire table will be crammed with dishes. And all this just to enjoy aromatic Luwak coffee. Boiling water is necessary so that they can dilute coffee. Drinking it in its pure form is difficult. After dilution with boiling water in coffee, you can add sugar to taste, and then slowly, enjoying every drop of this precious drink, consume it. 
How much is Luwak coffee in Vietnam today? The price per cup here is not the highest compared to the USA, Japan and European countries. For a cup of drink here you can pay about 90 dollars. It is the high cost of the product that gives rise to even stronger interest in it.
And more and more tourists who come to rest in Vietnam buy coffee from the feces of animals from Vietnam with them to their homeland and try to make it on their own.
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