Everyone loves coffee: men and women, Europeans and Asians, young and old, the elite of society and the poor. However, it is easy to assume that rich and very rich people prefer a drink of a completely different level than representatives of the middle class and the poor. And of course, this is bean coffee, because only it retains all the taste and aroma of the best varieties from all parts of the world. Let's give free rein to curiosity and find out which beans are valued most highly on the coffee market and why.

Why is grain better?

• A high-quality drink that retains all shades of taste and aroma can only be obtained from freshly ground coffee beans. For this reason . When using a good coffee machine, the beans are poured into the unit, where they are immediately crushed and brewed.

• The quality of coffee beans is easier to assess visually. Size, color, smell. Based on these characteristics, experts can easily identify compliance with varietal characteristics. It is almost impossible to determine what served as the raw material for making coffee powder.
• Coffee beans are stored better, preserving their exquisite aroma longer. You don't have to use an airtight container for this. It is enough that the place is dry and free of foreign odors.

For these and some other reasons, premium varieties are sold only in the form of beans and are much more expensive than ground coffee.

By default, an instant drink cannot be classified as “luxury”.

Elite varieties

The taste of coffee depends on many conditions: the climate in which it is grown, the characteristics of the soil and water. Therefore, as a rule, they are characterized by a specific geographical “reference”. In addition, the properties of luxury products are determined by the processing features and the screening out of substandard grains. Lots of such goods are limited, which also affects the price. Which varieties are the most expensive, and what are their features?

Black Ivory

Coffee with this name (translated as Black Ivory) is considered the most expensive in the world. It is produced on one single farm located in Thailand.

During the year, only 3-4 centners of coffee beans go on sale.

The method of producing this unique, very rare variety is very exotic. The fruits of the coffee tree (Thai Arabica variety) are fed to elephants. Then the undigested grains that have passed through the giant’s digestive tract are thoroughly washed, dried and fried. The product yield is small. By feeding an elephant about 30 kilograms of coffee berries, you can get only one kilogram of elite beans. The cost of this kilogram ranges from one to one and a half thousand American dollars.

The mild taste of the drink from Black Ivory is considered a reference. It completely lacks the characteristic bitterness, but at the same time reveals a surprisingly bright aroma with hints of spices and exotic fruits, notes of caramel and spring flowers.

Kopi Luwak

The second most expensive variety is produced in a similar way. Only coffee beans are fermented in the depths of the digestive system of small animals - civet cats (the local name is Luwak, which gave the name to this special coffee).

Region of origin: Indonesia, Philippines, Java, Sulawesi and Sumatra. But similar farms have already appeared in India and China. On these farms, the animals are kept in captivity, and the product produced there is somewhat cheaper in price.

The most highly prized species is Kopi Luwak, obtained using wild civet cats. The cost is about 600 US dollars per 0.5 kilograms of washed, dried and roasted grain. The characteristic taste is described as chocolate with a pronounced nutty note.

Every year no more than 5 quintals of coffee of this variety enter the market.

Hacienda La Esmeralda

This valuable variety comes from Panama and is grown in the Baru mountains. The spicy, rich taste is due to a combination of a number of factors: unusual volcanic soil, the ideal height of the plantation above sea level and a special type of coffee tree (they are called Esmeralda). The refined taste is preserved thanks to low roasting. The fruits of the coffee trees on the farm are collected by hand, choosing only the best, ripe, without defects.

Such a strict selection of ideally high-quality raw materials ensures the highest class of product, which rises in price every year at coffee auctions. Its taste is also special: it contains notes of spices, fresh fruits and chocolate.

To avoid counterfeiting, you should buy luxury coffees only in specialized stores or from trusted, reliable suppliers.

Geisha

More recently, in 2003, this amazing variety became a real coffee discovery. Its exquisite taste has captivated gourmets all over the world. It is very soft, delicate and sophisticated. It contains citrus and berry shades, wrapped in fresh floral notes.

The variety is grown in the mountainous regions of Panama and Costa Rica. Despite its youth, this coffee has repeatedly won various serious competitions.

Blue Mountain (JMB)

Connoisseurs recognize the taste of this variety as ideally balanced: it so harmoniously combines sweetness, bitterness and. The aroma reveals notes of ripe, juicy nectarines, pepper and chocolate, and the aftertaste has a distinct nutty feel. This perfection of taste is explained by special climatic conditions: a combination of specific soil, winds from the sea and the altitude of the plantations.

This type of Arabica is grown in Jamaica, on the mountain slopes. The variety owes its name to the highest peak of the mountain range - Blue Mountain.

An interesting feature is the unchanged taste from harvest to harvest. Consistency is achieved through stable climatic conditions.

It is supplied to the market not in bags, but in original barrels, which are produced specifically for this purpose. The amount of coffee produced annually is limited - only about 15 tons go on sale. The authenticity of the product is protected by a certificate of conformity.

Yauco Selecto AA-Coffee

Among the elite varieties, this one seems almost affordable. At coffee auctions the cost of 500 grams is about $25. It is grown in areas with high rainfall on clay soil: in the Cordilleras, Puerto Rico. The taste is described as a combination of nuts, spices and chocolate.

Jacques Bird

Brazil also did not stand aside in this coffee competition. The exotic variety Jacques Bird is related to the famous Kopi Luwak and Black Ivory. The only intermediate element of processing here is the local bird, similar to the guinea fowl, the Jacu. Birds peck coffee berries, but cannot digest the beans. Coffee that leaves the digestive tract naturally is washed, dried and roasted.

The special taste of this drink contains notes of rye bread, black molasses, fruits and nuts. Every year the plantation produces no more than 1.5-2 tons of specific coffee beans.

Kona Coffee

The Hawaiian Islands also grow their own elite coffee. Arabica grows here on volcanic slopes in climatic conditions that are exceptionally favorable for this tree. This variety, widely known throughout the world and quite expensive, has been grown on the island since the 1820s.

The taste of the drink reveals notes of wine, shaded with aromas of spices. Gourmets all over the world recognize the uniqueness and highest quality of Hawaiian Arabica coffee.

Bat

The last variety that receives attention in this article. It is grown high in the mountains, in the southwestern regions of Costa Rica. The producer is the one-of-a-kind Cofea Deversa farm. The uniqueness of coffee from this plantation is that bats select the beans! Small animals are not able to swallow coffee berries whole, but they really love their tasty pulp. To eat, they bite through the peel and suck out the juice. Due to the special sensitivity of their olfactory and taste receptors, bats choose only the best fruits.

These berries, “chosen” by mice, are allowed to dry on a tree, then collected, cleaned and dried. This combined drying, combined with the special selectivity of little sweet tooths, allows you to get a completely unique taste of the drink with hints of coconut milk, spices and fruits.

The aftertaste will delight gourmets with nutty and chocolate notes. This coffee is not the most expensive in the world, but its taste is truly unique.

Of course, not all precious premium coffee varieties are described in the article, because there are quite a lot of them. True connoisseurs of the drink are ready to shell out significant sums for their favorite beans, and this is understandable. Unfortunately, for most people, fine and rare types of coffee remain an unattainable luxury.

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Coffee is a food product that is consumed as a drink. Everywhere coffee is one of the most common and favorite drinks. Every day, every person’s morning begins with a cup of hot aromatic coffee; it would even be difficult to imagine the beginning of a new day without it.

Coffee trees are grown in different countries, mainly in the tropical climate zone. These trees belong to the madder family and number about 60 different species.
This product's grains include a large number of chemical substances. The main components are:

• caffeine, about 1-2%;
• ester of caffeic and quinic acid - 5-8%;
• 1% citric acid;
• 6% carbohydrates;
• 5% mineral salts.

The production of regular coffee differs in different methods of roasting (at different temperatures), adding impurities (which gives a particular flavor to the drink), or the type of coffee tree.
The production of the most expensive varieties of black drink has a slightly different and interesting scheme. These production methods influence the cost of a valuable product. So, get acquainted with expensive varieties of coffee and their production.

The most expensive varieties are obtained from animal excrement

The leader among connoisseurs of a prestigious and elite drink is coffee extracted from excrement, Kopi Luwak. The drink under this name is number one in price all over the world.
True gourmets characterize it as the drink of real kings. It has the taste of dark chocolate and a delicate aftertaste of caramel, and includes a slight vanilla aroma. Kopi Luwak is truly expensive; a cup of coffee can cost up to $100. Naturally, this is the price in countries remote from the place of production.

Kopi Luwak production technology.

Only true connoisseurs know how this drink is produced. This recipe is quite simple, and it just affects the cost. It is made, or rather obtained, from animal droppings. These animals are Chinese badgers or musangs. They look like the cartoon character Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, only gray in color. These badgers feed on coffee fruits, and they choose the ripest and largest berries, collecting them both in trees and on the ground.
A ripe coffee berry is red in color and large in size. Small green grains do not attract these animals, so they only enjoy the ripe product. Badgers can consume up to 1 kg of ripe fruits per day. What is eaten is mainly digested in the animal’s body, and only 5% does not have time to be digested and is excreted entirely.
Coffee beans, while in the animal’s body, are processed there by gastric juice and civet. After which the excrement released from the animal is collected by a person. Fruits that have not had time to digest are selected and cleaned. After a long cleaning process, they go through a drying and cleaning process, then another washing and drying process. The dried grains are lightly roasted at a certain temperature. The exact recipe for preparation and processing is unknown; its manufacturers keep it secret.

The grains are washed, cleaned and roasted several times

An interesting fact is that the grains are selected only for six months; the remaining six months they do not have the same taste. The fact is that the enzyme that gives coffee fruits a unique taste is secreted in animals for six months, but not for the next six months. Therefore, there is no point in collecting coffee produced by animals at this time. Beans from males are more valued, as they have a special pleasant aroma.
The collected grains go through a 15-stage sorting stage. And only grains without defects are packaged and sold as a whole. The rest are ground and sold crushed. This coffee is produced in southeast Asia - in Indonesia.
In Ethiopia they tried to develop the same coffee production as in Indonesia. There are also coffee trees and similar animals called civets. When tasters tried and compared these drinks, the Ethiopian version was far below the quality of the Indonesian product.

Chon coffee variety

The second expensive variety is produced in Vietnam and is called Chon. It has a slightly different taste than the product from Indonesia, no worse, just a little unusual. This variety is called an analogue of Indonesian coffee. Mostly Arabica and Robusta varieties are used, but less commonly the Katimor and Chari varieties are also used.

Chon production technology

The main participants in the production of the product from Vietnam are the Asian palm martens. They also eat coffee beans and love them very much. The technology is similar to that of Indonesian producers; grains are also collected from the droppings, cleaned, washed, and fried. The yield of whole beans from the animal's body is also about 5-7%. It is believed that the beans released from these animals have medicinal properties. Until recently, people considered palm martens to be pests, until they once tried to make a drink from their droppings. Now they have specially made enclosures where they keep these animals and at the same time feed them coffee beans.
Drying of beans not separated from excrement is done in the sun, after which each grain is selected, washed and dried again. After this, they move on to the frying process. Manufacturers do not disclose the temperature at which they fry.
The Vietnamese have learned very well how to combine several types of product into one, and the quality does not decrease, but only improves. This type of coffee includes the aroma of cocoa, hot chocolate, vanilla, and caramel. In general, everything is the best and necessary to get a divine aftertaste. The cost of this variety ranges from 150 to 250 dollars per kilogram.

The Chon variety is produced by Asian palm martens

Chon coffee recipe

There are two popular recipes for preparing this drink by the Vietnamese themselves.

1. Condensed milk is poured into the bottom of the cup and a special filter is placed on top. A spoonful of ground beans is poured into the filter and pressed on top with a press. After that, I pour boiling water into the cup through the filter, and it turns out to be an excellent drink.
2. The second method is somewhat unusual. The procedure is the same as in the first case, only instead of a cup a long glass is taken, and ice is used instead of condensed milk. The drink is served cold as a refreshing drink in hot weather.

The Vietnamese themselves consider their drink number one in the world and say that if you try just one sip, you will never be able to refuse it.

Variety Black Ivory

Another common and expensive type of drink is Black Ivory. Translated into Russian it means “Black Tusk”. The cost of a kilogram of such grains is $1,000. It has its own special taste and aroma, somewhat similar to the previous two, but has an original taste.

Manufactured by Black Ivory

This drink is produced in Thailand. The main producers are elephants. They are fed ripe berries from Arabica coffee trees and get almost ready-made coffee from their feces. Beans passing through an elephant's stomach are treated with the large animal's stomach acid. The acid is able to dissolve the protein of coffee beans, which leads to the fact that the finished product loses its bitterness. Therefore, even the strongest Black Ivory coffee will never be bitter.

Curious:
The process of digestion of fruits by an elephant's stomach takes about 30 hours. During this entire period of time, the grains are saturated with the fruity aromas of sugar cane, bananas and everything that the animal is fed.

To get a kilogram of undeformed grains from an elephant's stomach, it needs to be fed 35 kg of ripe berries, while mixing them with other ingredients that are included in the elephant's diet. During eating, most of the grains are simply destroyed, another part is digested by the stomach, and only a small part comes out of the elephant without deformation.
Women are responsible for extracting grains from elephant dung; they select whole grains and then send them for drying. Drying is carried out in factories in Bangkok. In Thailand, 26 elephants are involved in the production of the black drink.
It is very difficult to buy a product of this brand, since it is sold only in some cities in Thailand.

Black Ivory is produced with the help of elephants

Other high value coffees

These varieties of dark drink are inferior in price to all of the above, but not inferior in taste.

• Coffee Yauco Selecto.
  This type of coffee is obtained in the Caribbean, from Arabica beans. Coffee trees are grown at an altitude of 100 meters above sea level, where there is an excellent climate for their growth and rich harvest.
  It is not passed through the bodies of animals, so coffee has a significantly lower cost - $50 per kilogram.
• Starbucks.
  This drink with this name appeared quite recently in 2004. Introduced to Rwanda by Starbucks. This drink has its own distinctive aroma and aftertaste. When drinking this coffee, you feel a slight sourness with a different bouquet of spices. The cost of a kilogram of grains is 50-60 dollars.
• Blue Mountain.
  This type of coffee is produced in the city of Walenford, Jamaica. A distinctive feature of the variety is the absence of bitterness and mild taste; it is very popular among the Japanese population. This variety is produced traditionally. The cost starts from $100 per kilogram and above.

Having considered the prices, production principles and taste characteristics of each expensive coffee, we can note that the most expensive varieties are the Kopi Luwak, Chon and Black Ivory brands. They have the same production principle, but from different manufacturers. It takes a lot of work to produce the product by passing grains through the stomach of an animal. Both of these types of coffee are popular only among the rich and affluent segments of the population.

Most tourists plan their holidays in Vietnam in advance, starting well in advance to collect the necessary information about the country from various sources. Very often, future travelers are faced with the statement that the most delicious coffee is grown and prepared in Vietnam. How true is this information and what does Vietnamese coffee taste like?

Vietnamese Luwak coffee: unusual production

That 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 in the plant variety itself. The secret lies in the unusual production technology.

In Vietnam there are small animals that have several names: some call them musangs, some call them civets, and some call 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 the berries that ripen on coffee trees. After digesting food, civets naturally excrete their droppings, leaving behind undigested coffee beans. Specially selected employees who collect such droppings wander around the territory where the musangs live, with containers, filling them with grains for the future aromatic drink.

Coffee Luwak in Vietnam animals are not completely digested - only the outer shell of the coffee beans disintegrates 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 the animals that the drink costs a lot of money, and not every tourist decides to try it.

Cost of Luwak coffee in Vietnam

Musang animal that eats coffee beans.

Only these animals are involved in the production of the Vietnamese drink Luwak, named after the furry animal - the palm civet. Scientists have conducted many experiments involving other animals, but coffee beans collected from their droppings did not have such an unusual taste. Multiple 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 the same taste as after digestion by civets.

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.

The finished coffee, after musang, is collected by nursery workers.

Of course, the local population often makes money from tourists who dream of tasting this exotic drink, and offers them to buy coffee at an incredible price. Currently, 1 kg of such elite coffee costs approximately 1000 US dollars.

Luwak coffee from Vietnam is the most expensive coffee that is collected in the wild. There are some nuances here regarding the search and collection of grains. It is precisely because of the difficulty of collecting droppings that in recent years the population of Vietnam has begun 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 only ripe coffee berries.

How to make Luwak coffee?

The technology for preparing Luwak coffee differs from the usual brewing method. In order for the drink to be the most aromatic and tasty, you need to use only freshly ground coffee.

1. In Vietnam, coffee is never prepared in Turks or coffee pots.
2. Coffee is poured into a special filter.
3. Pour boiling water over it.
4. Then they place the 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? Using the same special filters. If a client orders coffee at a restaurant, he will be served a cup with a filter from which the coveted drink slowly drips. Often a cup filled with green tea with ice is placed nearby, and a thermos of boiling water is also brought. At the client's request, they can serve him a bowl of sugar or a glass of ice.

If a visitor to an establishment orders a full set, his entire table will be filled with dishes. And all this just to enjoy the aromatic Luwak coffee. Boiling water is necessary so that it can be used to dilute coffee. It is difficult to drink it in its pure form. After diluting with boiling water, you can add sugar to your coffee to taste, and then slowly, enjoying every drop of this precious drink, drink it.


How much does Luwak coffee cost in Vietnam today? The price per cup here is not the highest compared to the USA, Japan and European countries. You can pay about $90 for a cup of drink here. It is the high cost of the product that gives rise to even stronger interest in it.

And more and more tourists who come on vacation to Vietnam buy coffee made from animal feces from Vietnam to take home with them and try to prepare it themselves.

Surely you have heard about Luwak (Luwak) coffee more than once. In Europe, people are willing to spend a considerable amount of money on a cup of coffee made from excrement. But few people know that this expensive type of coffee is quite specific and has a unique taste that only true gourmets of this drink will understand.

Let's figure out why this drink is considered the most expensive type of coffee in the world and how much Luwak coffee costs.

Origin of Luwak coffee

The most expensive coffee in the world began to be sold at the end of the 19th century. The appearance of this drink is presumably due to the fact that the Dutch, in whose hands were entire coffee plantations, forbade local residents to drink it. But they were not at all confused and found a way to circumvent the ban by making a drink fermented by the inhabitants of the local fauna.

This was exactly the drink that “good Europeans” would never even taste. The name itself suggests that in the preparation of this drink the main role is played by animals, namely the wild civet or luwak, as these animals are called in their homeland.

In appearance, the animals resemble a weasel, a marten, or even a cat. The natural habitat of these animals is the forests of Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka and southern China. Luwak is a predator that prefers to feed not only on small amphibians or insects, but also on various fruits and berries. But the most important delicacy for this animal remains the fruits of the coffee tree.

The most expensive coffee is produced in several places in Indonesia, but Bali is still considered the most famous. And here we are not talking about the quality of the product at all. Bali is still considered a place where crowds of tourists from all over the world enthusiastically go to the most common resorts on this island, ready to buy coffee made from poop for fabulous money.

But the most expensive coffee in the world may not always be real; only a true gourmet can distinguish real animal Luwak coffee from a fake. Not only Bali is famous for high-quality fakes made from dung; coffee in Vietnam, on the island of Java or on Sumatra also does not always correspond to the stated price.

The process of making the world's most expensive coffee: the secret is in the intestines

Kopi Luwak or musang (palm marten) is a whole story for Southeast Asia. The peculiarity of this animal lies in the ability of gastric juice to break down proteins and give the future drink a special taste with a hint of bitterness. The animal literally shits the finished product.

The coffee beans pass through the Luwak's digestive tract and stomach virtually intact. The secret that musang holds is the fermentation process, during which a certain amount of grains is digested and not only the taste, but also the aroma of the product obtained from animal feces is enhanced.

This was confirmed by a real scientific study that was conducted in the 80s of the last century by Canadian chemists. Bacteria and other microorganisms in the intestines of luwak are transformed into other biological substances through fermentation.

Watch a video of how Kopi Luwak coffee is made.

The coffee beans that the musang eats are usually the most common ones. It can be Robusta or Arabica (in Bali, Arabica is mainly used - the tree is smaller, but its fruits are larger). The most important thing is that luwak is the most fastidious animal in Asia and they eat only selected varieties of coffee beans.

Musang, whose sense of smell is much sharper than a human's, has the talent to determine the quality of a product. Coffee beans are loved by these animals solely due to their sweetish taste. Luwak digest them, using up the pulp without damaging the structure of the grain, and then pump out the almost finished product.

Local farmers collect animal poop, which is then turned into individual grains. The procedure is relatively complex, since such a large amount of feces must be washed several times with water and then dried in the sun.

If you don’t even know how to prepare the most expensive product, then in Bali they will assure you that the process of making Kopi Luwak coffee takes place according to ancient technology, by hand and exclusively on the fire of a coffee tree. But this is not entirely true.

One kilogram of coffee from feces is prepared in 45 minutes, and the demand for this product is quite high and it is unlikely that a couple of people process such a large number of pumped out beans, thereby creating a product recognized as the most expensive in the world.

Little-known facts about Kopi Luwak

There are a huge number of myths and speculations surrounding the origin of Asia’s most famous product and the process of its preparation. The World Society for the Protection of Animals states that the luwak is an animal that lives in captivity, most often in dirty cages, where it is not able to move freely.

While the rich world savors the most expensive coffee in the world, which is called nothing less than “a miracle from the wild,” animals suffer. Local residents deny this fact and claim that the Luwak is an animal that, while in captivity, will not eat coffee beans.

Besides this, there are several more facts that few people know about.

1. If living creatures are left uncontrolled, the animal may feel unwell due to large quantities of coffee, since the fruits do not have time to digest due to too large a portion of what was eaten.
2. The Luwak are cared for like royalty. A special veterinarian regularly checks the health of the animals, and each individual has its own medical card and medical history.
3. How exactly the idea of ​​how to prepare the drink arose - no one knows. The islanders tell an interesting legend. The first coffee plantations on the islands of Sumatra and Java were astronomically expensive. Just as it was forbidden to take the stones with you when mining diamonds, plantation workers were strictly forbidden to take the prepared product home.
   When local residents accidentally discovered musang excrement with undigested grains, it was decided to wash it and taste it. Surprisingly, this particular drink turned out to be much tastier than regular coffee. The limited quantity of the product instantly made the drink not only the most expensive, but also the most widespread type of coffee in the world.
4. Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) from the movie "Until I Played the Box" drank Kopi Luwak before he knew how it was made. His new friend Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman), on the contrary, was interested in how the drink was made and openly enjoyed the process of making it.
5. Only two species of animals eat coffee beans: musang and elephant. However, unlike luwak elephants, coffee is mixed with their food.
6. Vietnamese Luwak coffee is considered relatively cheap in Southeast Asia. You can try it in local cafes or buy it in specialized stores. The best gift you can bring to friends from a trip to Asian countries is coffee from Vietnam. Luwak coffee is also called Chon in Vietnam.

Why is Kopi Luwak so expensive?

Most people think that the high cost of Luwak coffee is only due to the fact that local farmers have to rummage through animal feces. This work is not the most pleasant, but the reason for the high price lies not there.

Farmers look for processed material exclusively in the excrement of wild animals, since musangs do not want to eat coffee beans, being unwitting. The secret of the high cost of the product is explained as follows:

• the most mature grains are collected exclusively by hand;
• two or three times a week the Luwak are given about 200 grams of coffee beans, on other days they are fed noodle soup and chicken, meat with rice, bananas and corn;
• animals are considered to be very selective, choosing exclusively ripe fruits;
• Musangs are regularly examined by a veterinarian, who carefully monitors their health.

Real Luwak coffee has a spicy taste with light notes of chocolate and caramel. The most expensive drink in the world costs about $600 per kilogram, the price for the most expensive Vietnamese version of coffee can reach up to $6,600 per kilogram.

Watch another video about musang.

Nowadays money plays a big role in a person’s life. I would even say that we spend most of our time searching for the most profitable business. Everyone is especially interested in the business that will bring money in a short time.

Most people think little about ways to achieve wealth, and this sometimes brings problems. Any business is built not only on fast and cheap ways. Much depends on quality, and it cannot be achieved by easily accessible methods.

Incredible way to make money

In our modern age, we have learned to make money from everything, not only from large and small production. The availability of the Internet has made it possible to earn money even from pets. There would be a desire to sell absolutely everything, but there would always be a buyer.

Returning to the topic of pets, not all owners keep them out of the kindness of their hearts. Many people make money from them; you have often come across advertisements for the sale of puppies or kittens, a rare breed with an ancient pedigree. And how many similar scammers are there among sellers?

The Internet has greatly facilitated access to information and communication at a distance, but also made it possible for fraudulent schemes to flourish unhindered. Therefore, when buying anything online, work only with trusted sites, protect yourself.

The latest innovative way to improve your financial situation at the expense of a pet is to own a Musang, or better yet, several. Ask who is this? Otherwise it is called luwak, an animal that produces.

I'm sure you're wondering what the little animal has to do with coffee production? Let's start in order.

Who is Luwak?

Musang is a small animal, dark gray in color with thick and coarse fur, with black stripes along the body. It loves warm tropical climates because it lives on palm trees. It has many names:

• Malayan Marten;
• Palm civet.

But most often she is known in the world as Luwak.

The places where the animals live are:

• Islands of Java and Borneo;
• South.

They settle on palm trees and do not form flocks. They intersect with their relatives only during the mating season. Since both males and females have scent glands in the form of testicles, these animals are sometimes said to be hermaphrodites. For a long time, they were considered pests in their homeland.

Although these mammals are omnivores, they eat a wide variety of foods:

• Various fruits;
• Small insects;
• The bats;
• Small birds and their eggs;
• Also worms;
• Small rodents, such as squirrels and their young;
• Snakes;
• Lizards.

Luwak's favorite treat is coffee beans.

For some time they tried to exterminate them by all available means. The fact is that the animals lead an active life at night, and they are quite difficult to catch. Making their way to coffee plantations, they choose only the most delicious and ripe beans. During the day, the animal sleeps, nestling in the interweaving of vines and small branches.

Unfortunately, it is not known who this original was. The main thing is that, having tried this coffee, gourmets found it the most amazing. The coffee taste is reminiscent of vanilla and chocolate, without being bitter.

In addition to producing an expensive variety of unusual coffee, musangs bring other benefits to people. By settling close to people, in stables and other outbuildings, they help get rid of small rodent pests. So these are quite pleasant neighbors, and even with the opportunity to make money from them.

Scheme for the production of the most expensive coffee

How does this unusual taste of coffee come about? According to the observations of scientists, coffee beans, passing through the intestines of luwaka, are processed by a special enzyme - “cebitin”. Thanks to it, the bitterness that is inherent in coffee goes away, while leaving the rest of the special taste properties, plus vanilla complements it.

Under natural conditions, luwak, or paradoxurus hermaphroditus in Latin, produces only a few kilograms of this coffee per year. So residents and producers put a lot of effort into carefully collecting the resulting product and sending it for further processing. That is why its cost starts from 400 dollars to 1500.

Despite the fact that Kopi Luwak coffee is produced in such an unusual and perhaps even unpleasant way for many. Few people liked to observe the entire production and processing process.

Most people prefer not to think about where coffee comes from, but simply enjoy the unusual taste of the final product. Hence the great popularity of coffee all over the world. Therefore, many coffee companies try to produce it artificially.

There are entire Luwak farms in Asian countries.

Only an animal of the civet family living in captivity produces coffee that is not so aromatic and tasty. After all, the diet of an animal in captivity is different from what it is used to; it eats what is given, without choosing the best, as in freedom.

The closest taste to wild coffee is Vietnamese coffee “Chon”. This is all thanks to the technology of manual selection of coffee beans; only the best are fed to the martens.

Some manufacturers tried to recreate rare coffee in the laboratory, but nothing worked. Synthetically processed civet, in the end, did not give the desired result. Most likely, coffee is also influenced by other enzymes found in the small marten’s intestines.

Unusual "manufacturer"

Wikipedia gives a detailed description of the animal's life. And below you can see a photo of this cute creature. Luwak quickly becomes tamed, even living with people, on roofs or near growing trees. And you don't have to put him in a cage.

Earn thousands of dollars with the help of an exotic animal

Recently, breeding Luwak has become popular; many entrepreneurs earn hundreds of thousands from coffee martens. In terms of content, this is not a whimsical creature, and is an omnivore. Although he chooses only the best from food.

But if you want to get the best coffee in the end, then it’s worth building the conditions closest to natural wild nature, then the demand will only increase.

The best part is that breeding musangs is quite easy; females have a short pregnancy of only two months and produce from two to four cubs. Therefore, developing an extensive production of exotic coffee will not be difficult. But if you want to have no equal in your production, make more efforts to create comfortable living conditions for palm martens.

Interesting story

After all, living in other climatic conditions, their body is structured differently, and it is unknown what viruses they carry. But legally obtaining permission to import such an animal is quite difficult. There are so many certificates and permits that need to be collected that in the end many simply give up on the idea of ​​owning such an animal.

That's why the smuggling business is so booming. People don't understand that getting a crocodile without knowing how to keep it can lead to a lot of problems. These are exactly the problems that my friend encountered when she decided to circumvent the law and buy an exotic cat, to be more precise, a “Velvet Wild Cat.”

But they brought her a completely different animal. Instead of the small cat she had chosen, she was given a “Bornean cat,” as it turned out later. In general, she paid a decent amount of money for this fluffy miracle.

The problems started just a couple of days later

They didn’t really explain to her how to care for her, and on the Internet she was looking for information about a completely different type of cat. And no one explained to her that both the owner and the animal need to be vaccinated against various infections, most of which are transmitted through a bite or a cut from the claws.

Believe me, wild cats are different from domestic cats, especially those that were forcibly torn out from their usual environment and were not tamed to people. So my friend suffered from her lack of information.

This story ended rather sadly, firstly, the animal got sick due to improper care. Secondly, his owner became seriously ill with a high fever due to a cut on her arm left by a wild cat.

Of course, they were both able to be cured, but after being discharged from the hospital, my friend was dragged around for a long time to various authorities and was fined a serious amount for illegally importing an animal.

I can say one thing: you shouldn’t chase exotic things, the result may not please you

If you admire wild animals so much, then go to the zoo or visit a tourist Safari, where you can safely enjoy the wild nature.

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