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Civet coffee ever ... this is how history
Animals weasel or mongoose is a mammal that is often encountered in the vicinity of settlements or even very good at climbing this perkotaan.Hewan, more often wandering over the trees, though more often fall into tanah.Musang itself is also more active at night to seek food and others from activities.
Often we find also ferrets roam at night to forage in the settlement, we often encounter even weasel himself climbing the power cord, tile house or even the surrounding buildings and they are always moving into the ground or looking for spaces in the house a lot of food, like in the kitchen or on their own gudang.Musang also like to explore the dense forest with trees because ferrets also like fruits and grains.
Ferret badger own or more often we hear from the public opinion as a chicken thief, even if it appears more frequently ate raccoons various fruits in the forest or in the yard, including bananas, papayas, coffee, and also the fruit timber.
Other prey that are often more inclined to eat civet own small animals, such as earthworms, lizards, ants, including the rat
In places that we often skip or even that we've seen mongoose which are dumping feces, feces in the form of visible grain tercena not in it, so that the seeds remain intact ferret own digestion seems shorter and sederhana15
So that's where it is said badgers or raccoons prefer fruit really ripe to become mongoose food

Types of Coffee

There are two types of coffee which is very famous in the world, That is Arabica and Robusta
Although worldwide there are about 70 species of coffee trees, from the size of shrubs to trees with a height 12 meters, but only two species of coffee trees, which are generally known to be produced as a product of coffee. Both these species are used for production of about 98 percent of world coffee production.
Coffee was first developed in the world is Arabica Coffee from the species Coffea arabica coffee trees. This type of coffee is the most widely produced, which is about more than 60 percent of world coffee production. Arabica coffee from Coffea arabica species produce the best type of coffee. The tree species is usually grown in upland areas. Coffee tree height is between 4 to 6 meters. Arabica coffee has a caffeine content of not more than 1.5 percent and has a number of chromosomes as many as 44 chromosomes.
Other species of coffee tree is also quite a lot of coffee is produced as Coffea canephora is often known as Robusta coffee. Coffea canephora tree height reaches 12 meters and can be planted in areas with lower than arabica coffee. Robusta coffee is typically used as instant coffee or fast food. Robusta coffee has a higher caffeine content, it seems more neutral, as well as a stronger coffee aroma. The content of caffeine in coffee robusta reach 2.8 percent and has a chromosome number was 22 chromosomes. Robusta coffee production has reached a third of world coffee production.
One type of coffee that is not unusual and very expensive, specialty coffee from Indonesia called Luwak Coffee. Mongoose animal delighted to find a good enough fruits including coffee fruit as food. Coffee beans from the best fruit that is very popular mongoose, after eating discarded along with feces, which previously fermented in the stomach mongoose. Coffee beans like this, in the past often hunted coffee farmers, because it is believed to come from the best coffee beans and fermented naturally. And according to belief, this Luwak coffee taste is really different and special among the fans and coffee lovers 

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Luwak Coffee Lover

So You Call Yourself a Coffee Lover? Try Luwak Coffee
The most famous coffee beans are still picked by hand - but the trip the beans take from cradle to grave is part urban legend and partly just plain weird. by Gary Picariello / February 19, 2009

[So You Call Yourself a Coffee Lover? Try Luwak Coffee]

Among the coffee elite, "this" is the Holy Grail. "This" being the rarest and reported-to- be-most-expensive-coffee in the world. You'd think the CIA was haggling over a spy exchange, that's how intense the business gets when it comes to this particular brand of java. Men have searched for it the world over: huddling in dark corners, whispering in the shadows. At times selling their souls. Prepared to pay to the highest bidder. But for what? There in lies the tale of Kopi Luwak coffee. Unlike anything you've ever tasted in the world of rare and imported coffee.

Our tale begins in the far off coffee plantations of Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi, Indonesia. Here, the locals grow coffee as if their lives depended on it. And perhaps their lives really do. Work is hard to come by in these parts, and those fortunate enough to find work on the plantations picking coffee beans can rightly brag about really having accomplished something in their lives – even if they are making less than a minimum wage.

But not all of the region's renowned coffee crop grows on trees. The most famous coffee beans are still picked by hand - but the trip the beans take from cradle to grave is part urban legend and partly just plain weird. Want to make some big money? Time to track down a weasel-like critter known as the Palm Civet - also called the Luwak.

The Luwak is a coffee grower's nightmare: workers on the coffee plantation have a love-hate relationship with this little critter - which has expensive tastes - eating only the ripest coffee beans. Problem is, this long-time pest of Indonesian coffee plantations can't digest the coffee bean it so fervently seeks out. So the Luwak does what animals tend to do - after rolling the beans around in its mouth and maybe trying to chew on them for awhile, the Luwak swallows the bean and several hours later passes the undigested coffee bean in its waste. Luwak does this all day long.

Now the locals - who know the value of a coffee bean if ever there was one - patiently search out the Luwak’s bowel excretions and ever-so-gingerly extract the beans and lightly roast them. The effect of the Luwak's digestive track on the coffee beans is said to slightly ferment the coffee beans. In fact, giving the coffee beans a slightly nutty taste.

Call me crazy, but if I pull a coffee bean out of a turd and slightly roast it - for darn sure it's not going to taste "nutty". I'm thinking it's probably going to taste like sh*t. And even then, I don’t think I'll be drinking a cup.

But that goes to show how much I know. Because coffee beans "produced" by the Luwak are sought out and known for their "distinctly original-tasting roasted coffee blend" and one that is highly sought after by coffee gourmets the world over.

But the last laugh goes to laborer sweating away on the plantation. Prices for this coffee blend often run more than $250.00 dollars per pound. And the laborer benefits as well. And it's no wonder: it's not only time-consuming to search out the Luwak's animal waste, but also labor-intensive extracting the beans. And besides that, you smell like crap at the end of the day. For that kind of effort a person can be very well paid.

The Kopi Luwak blend is not something you can pick up on the streets. You won’t find it being offered as the "blend of the day" at your local coffee house. In fact, unless you're traveling in the upper reaches of Sumatra, finding this rare blend of coffee is nearly impossible. Every now and then Kopi Luwak coffee is offered online, and even then by "special request" only.
And now you know why the Kopi Luwak blend it is called the world's rarest coffee beverage.

And one that truly lives up to its name as being "good to the last drop"...