Showing posts with label Coffee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coffee. Show all posts

Kona Coffee

How are you today for Coffee Lovers, now I will give information about kona coffee, Kona coffee is a very special type of coffee, this coffee comes from the Hawaiian kona district. Kona district has fertile volcanic soil and humid atmosphere is very suitable for growing coffee. If you begin to taste the kona coffee in the glass then you will realize that kona coffee has a delicate flavor. This coffee has a mild acidity, and offers deep aroma that will really stand out for coffee lovers.

Kona coffee beans, including the most expensive coffee on the market, and is renowned as one of the world's best coffee. Kona coffee has long been cultivated by the Hawaiian people for generations in the north and south kona for over 175 years.

Kona Coffee beans are harvested by selecting the coffee beans are already cooked and only picked by hand so that it can produce a sweet coffee, the way this is one advantage to harvest the coffee crop compared with the aid of a machine that causes the coffee beans are immature and imperfect join picked so that the effect on the taste of coffee.

Due to the expensive, Kona coffee beans are often mixed with other types of coffee before being sold in local markets.

If you buy a pack of coffee beans that are labeled Kona, you must be very careful in reading labels. Most packs contain 10% or less of Kona coffee and the rest is inferior coffee, South American coffee beans.

Luwak Coffee

Luwak is the Indonesian word for asian palm civet, Luwak is a local name for the Asian palm/coconut civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) who live in Sumatra. Palm/coconut civet (Luwak) are basically animals that carefully, eat fruits and fruit pulp of ficus and palm trees. Civet also eat small vertebrates, insects, ripe fruits and grains.


Luwak or palm/coconut civet will only eat the fruit of the most mature and most sweet. So that coffee farmers often find their best coffee disappeared in the morning.

For you coffee lovers certainly no stranger to hear Luwak coffee or Civet coffee that cost could reach hundreds dollar in only 1 kilogram of course, luwak coffee or civet coffee is coffee beans in meals by local civet from Sumatra but only the flesh is digested, the epidermis and beans is still intact and not undigested. According to history, coffee at the meal by a this local civet one of which is imported arabica coffee seeds from Yemen by Dutch colonizers. Civet coffee beans is the most expensive in the world, reaching $ 100 per 450 grams.

Coffee bean in civet droppings are then taken, washed, roasted, crushed, then brewed with hot water, it creates a civet coffee that taste completely different (unique) and special among the fans and coffee lovers.
Luwak coffee is produced on the island of Sumatra, Bali, Sulawesi and other islands of Indonesia, luwak coffee is also produced in the Philippines and East timor.