CoffeeIndonesian Civet Coffee
If we talk about coffee we should know that the origin of coffee is from Ethiopia, East of Africa. The people in Arab Peninsula at early time they knew coffee from the Ethiopian drink a coffee as a medicine. Nowadays many people drink coffee with many reasons. Every country has they own tradition.
If we go to Sydney, Australia, in the morning time in the Rock area we will see so many people went to the office with bringing a glass of coffee. In Spain or Italy we will found a small glass of delicious black coffee.
Anyway, coffee is a good business; according to a survey in Indonesia, a person of coffee drinker has consumption at least 0.6 kg of coffee a years. In Scandinavia 20 times than that; and in Australia nearly a quarter of total population drink coffee.
Starbucks Coffee, The Coffee Beans are an example of a business enterprise that success internationally and has a good income from coffee business. At some places drink coffee also as a life style, like at the developing country, the people visit a famous coffee shop just for prestige, not for a coffee itself. Visiting famous coffee shops become one of hedonism life style.
There is no documentation about the history of when exactly human starting drunk coffee. Some historian said that the coffee become famous during the period of 800 BC when some trader across Red Sea from Africa to Yemen. Another historian said that the coffee become famous when the Ethiopian expansion to Arabian Peninsula on year 525.
Ethiopian capturing Yemen for nearly 50 years, the behavior of drinking coffee of Ethiopian then follows by the Arabian Peninsula people. Coffee origin is a red beans become a life styles by some Yemenis, and there are many plantation in Yemen during 6th century.
From Arab Peninsula the coffee beans bringing to India by Baba Budan, around year 1650 he was planting coffee at his hometown at Chickmaglur, Southern of India. According to William Ukers on his encyclopedia write on 1928, the coffee plant of Budan still found at the forest of Chickmaglur, but now there is no coffee plat anymore in there.
During the Colonial era, some European trader from French, Dutch and Portugal taking an interest with coffee, they bough a coffee beans from India and sell it to Europe. A Dutch trader then bringing coffee beans (Baba Budan coffee) from India to Sri Lanka and Java Island.
During the 18th century some Dutch trader has a good profit from coffee business. The history said that the King Louis XVI of French imported a coffee plant from Yemen, and then he instruct his botanical expert to maintain the plant, later on the first glass house has made to keep that plant.
Coffee plant goes to Martinique Island in Caribbean Islands around 1720, bringing by Chevalier Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu. Fifty years later that plant spread out to Haiti, Mexico and, others Caribbean Islands. There is a famous type of coffee there; among others are Santos coffee from Brazil and Oaxaca from Mexico.
In Indonesia there are many of type of coffee; Kopi Sumatra, Kopi Toraja, Kopi Jawa and Kopi Luwak.
Kopi Luwak or cat poop coffee is one of the most expensive coffee in the world. At $50 a cup, kopi luwak is said to be the most expensive coffee in the world, but it may be best not to think about where it came from.
Kopi Luwak or Luwak coffee had the texture of the feeling that was soft with the strong bitter feeling but somewhat veiled, not until disrupted the sense on tongue. His aroma was then very fragrant. However that most became the Luwak Coffee expertise was after taste available his match.
The method was most appropriate to enjoy this civet coffee was like enjoyed a glass Wine best. Firstly inhaled previously fragrant his aroma, afterwards the slow gulp, little by little while being tasted several times. Let the Luwak coffee-flavoured sensation fill the cavity in the mouth, after that let after taste Luwak Coffee remained in the mouth. After taste Luwak Coffee could remain for several hours. According to them who had enjoyed him, After Taste Kopi Luwak remained between 4-6 hours.
To be able to enjoy the feeling and the Luwak Coffee aroma optimally and maximally, really was suggested to not mix him with milk. The increase in sugar or the sweetener was then suggested by just a few then. When necessary without sugar or the sweetener completely.
Even some people believe that coffee drink has a side effect for health, but it still one of choose to drink. Enjoy it.