Kopi Luwak is a rare and exotic coffee produced from the finest
ARABICA beans and the WILD Luwak (Asian Palm Civet, also
known as Paradoxurus Hermaphroditus), all the way from the
mountains of central Aceh in Sumatra Island. Since the seventeenth
century when Arabica beans began to be widely cultivated, Kopi Luwak
has enjoyed an international reputation for its superior quality and its
special flavor. The Sumatra island is also the home of Luwak, the certain
creatures that also could be found in Java, Bali, and Sulawesi in
the Indonesian Archipelago.
Kopi Luwak is made from coffee beans that have been eaten by a small
tree-dwelling animal, the Asian Palm Civet. Ripe red coffee cherries are
one of the favorite foods of civet, or luwak, as it is called in Indonesian.
The Luwak consumes the cherries, fermented in its digestive system
where a unique combination of stomach enzymes break down the protein
that give coffee its bitter taste. The inner beans are intactly passed, still
encased in their protective hulls, then collected, thoroughly cleaned,
sun-dried and lightly roasted to preserve their complex
distinct flavors and aromas.
Lam.
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