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1. Coffee
Cherries
Kopi luwak begins life as does any
other coffee, as plump red berries
on a coffee tree. |
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2. The
Luwak
For reasons known only to the luwak
the cherry is selected and then eaten. |
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3. Natural
Kopi Luwak
Once the cherries have been digested
they come out looking like this! |
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4. Parchment
At Animalcoffee the kopi luwak is
broken down into individual beans
that still retain the parchment. |
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5. Drying
The beans are then laid out on canvas
in the sun and dried for approximately
one week. |
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6. Dried
Beans
Once dry the papery parchment cracks
and the coffee beans shrink. |
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7. Pounding
Next, the dried coffee beans are pounded
causing the brittle parchment to fragment
and fall apart. |
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8. Winnowing
The parchment has broken down into
dust and chaff which is easily removed
through winnowing. |
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9. Green
Beans
Some beans still have a thin fibrous
coating that is more difficult to
completely remove. |
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10. Sorting
The final step is manual sorting,
a process that is both time consuming
and labour intensive. |
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