Civet coffee. Coffee is brewed using coffee beans taken from the rest of the civet droppings / palm civet. Coffee beans are believed to have a different flavor after being eaten and passed through the digestive tract mongoose. This coffee fame in Southeast Asia has long been known, but only became widely known in gourmet coffee enthusiasts after its publication in the 1980s. The beans are the most expensive in the world, reaching US $ 100 per 450 grams.
History :
The origin of civet coffee is closely linked to the history of coffee cultivation in Indonesia. At the beginning of the 18th century, the Dutch opened the commercial crop plantations in their colonies in the East Indies, especially in Java and Sumatra. One of them is the Arabica coffee seedlings imported from Yaman. In the era of "Cultivation" or Cultuurstelsel (1830-1870), the Netherlands banned the indigenous plantation workers picking coffee berries for personal consumption, but locals want to try the famous coffee drinks. Then plantation workers eventually found that there was a ferret who likes to eat the coffee fruit, but only the flesh is digested, the epidermis and the coffee bean is still intact and undigested. civet coffee beans in the dirt is then to be collected, washed, roasted, ground, and brewed with hot water, it creates a civet coffee. The news about the pleasures of aromatic coffee is finally captured by the Dutch citizens planter, then later this coffee into the rich Dutch craze. Because of its rarity and the manufacturing process is unusual, even civet coffee is coffee that expensive since the colonial era.
Civet or civet mongoose full, happy to look for fruits that are good enough and the cook including coffee berries as food. With its sense of smell-sensitive, mongoose will pick coffee cherries are truly mature optimal as food, and thereafter, the beans are still protected hard skin and undigested will come out with the civet droppings. This happens because the mongoose have a digestive system that is simple, so the food was hard as undigested coffee beans. The beans like this, in the past until now often hunted coffee farmers, because it is believed to come from the best coffee beans and fermented naturally in the digestive system of the civet. The aroma and taste of civet coffee is tasted specials and perfect among the fans and coffee lovers worldwide.
Civet coffee. given by the President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, on his visit to Australia in early March 2010 to the attention of the press because, according to the Bureau of Quarantine Australia Australia not through examination beforehand. The press dubbed it dung diplomacy.
Producing areas :
Gayo, Aceh
Sidikalang
Promise Maria Village, District Central Barumun, Padang Lawas, 40 kilometers from Laguboti.
Pagaralam
Semende, Muara Enim
Liwa, West Lampung
Kotabumi, Lampung
West Java
East Java
Controversy :
An investigation in Takengon, Aceh by MAP in collaboration with the BBC revealed about a captive containing mongoose captured from the wild, put in small cages and fed only beans every day, only to be picked manure which is then processed into civet coffee. Not only that, mongoose-mongoose also be behaving abnormally as it continues to move back and forth, round and round, and biting cage.
The movement to boycott the civet coffee also appear., Denial about these things began to emerge, especially from the civet coffee producers.