Looking luwak
Civet or luwak coffee is coffee that has passed the intestines of the mongoose or palm civet. It is believed that those coffee beans have a different taste compared to regular coffee. Although this coffee is known for a long time in Southeast Asia, it only became widely known after publications in the 1980's. Civet coffee is the most expensive coffeee in the world.The discovery of Kopi Luwak
The origin of Kopi Luwak is closely connected with the history of coffee production in Indonesia. In early 18th century the Dutch established the cash-crop plantations in their colony in the Dutch East Indies islands of Java and Sumatra. During the era of Cultuurstelsel (1830—1870), the Dutch prohibited the native farmers and plantation workers to pick coffee fruits for their own use. Soon the natives learned that certain species of musang or luwak (Asian Palm Civet) consumed these coffee fruits, yet they left the coffee seeds undigested in their droppings. The natives collected these Luwak's droppings. Cleaned, roasted and grinded it to make a coffee beverage. The fame of aromatic civet coffee spread from locals to Dutch plantation owners and soon became their favourite. Yet because of its rarity and unusual process, the civet coffee was even in colonial times expensive.Blawans civets
In Blawan, left of the road if you walk from Catimor Homestay in the direction of the waterfall, there is a small shed where luwaks are kept. There is room for around 20 animals. They are shy, because they are wild. Luwaks are caught in the wild and sold to the plantation, since it is not easy to raise luwak. But, by observation and experience the animal can eventually be bred. This is not yet being done at the coffee plantations at Ijen Plateau, but might be implemented in the future. Near the coffee factory in Sempol around 80 luwaks kept.The luwak is a carnivore, but besides meat - and coffee of course - it also consumes fruits like banana, papaya and guava. Since the luwak is a carnivore, they can behave as a cannibal. That is why they live in separate cages.
Luwak can eat 0.88 to 1.15 kilograms of coffee fruits per day. The coffee given is ripe and fresh. The coffee beans are fermented for about 12 hours inside the luwak's stomach. After passing the tract the beans and then released out with the dirt on the process of excretion.
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