Thanks to the refined production process and the most delicious taste, weasel coffee has become a coffee line that is sought after by the whole world. But why is weasel coffee so expensive, even in countries that can produce it?

"Coffee - weasel" is a seemingly impossible duo. Unlike other brands, coffee and weasel are completely in two different fields, one side is animals - the other is plants, weasel does not have any impact in the growth and development of coffee and coffee opposite. So, to answer the question of why weasel coffee is so expensive and rare, let's find out with Huongmai Cafe through the following article.

What is weasel coffee?     

As the name implies, weasel coffee is made from coffee beans and mink dung. The ferrets when eating coffee berries only swallow the flesh and seeds inside and release the outer shell. However, because ferrets cannot digest coffee beans, they will excrete them.

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The unique thing here is that the coffee beans that weasel eat, under the action of digestive enzymes in the weasel stomach, change the protein structure in the coffee beans, causing some acid to be removed. As a result, the taste of weasel coffee becomes more special, more delicious than regular coffee, and the sour taste of the coffee beans is also much lighter than the original beans.

History of weasel coffee

Starting from the 16th - 18th centuries, the concept of "weasel coffee" was known among the nobility in the colonial countries of Southeast Asia. Started in Indonesia, then spread to the surrounding island countries and stopped in Vietnam. According to the story, coffee plantation farmers often exploit this type of agricultural product but do not have enough money to enjoy, so they noticed that coffee was mixed in the waste of wild weasel (civet) so they brought it home to make coffee. Thoroughly clean, roast and use. Unexpectedly, the coffee has an unexpectedly delicious and unique taste. The Dutch and French knew and raised "weasel coffee" into an expensive drink, only for the upper class because of the expensive price.

Referring to weasel coffee, it is impossible to ignore the importance of mountain mink (civet). Mink's musk gland is very strong, so in addition to using that musk for perfume distillation, ordinary people rarely like weasels because their smell is extremely heavy. Weasel are very picky eaters, they often eat fruits with skin, sweet and clean such as coffee, litchi, bananas... With coffee, weasel eats only red, smooth seeds, absolutely do not touch the ripe seeds old, rotten. Weasels also only give birth to 1-2 litters a year, the pregnancy rate is low, they live in areas with their own soil, so the number becomes even rarer. From there it can be seen, why weasel coffee is expensive is not unreasonable, when the price of 1 kg of weasel coffee can be 10, even a hundred times higher than normal coffee.

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What is weasel coffee made from?   

For coffee lovers, weasel coffee is an interesting story. Ordinary people are only curious to taste the "unique" taste, but may not know the arduous process of making weasel coffee, how rigorous the process is.

Why is weasel coffee so expensive? Weasel coffee is made up of coffee beans selected by our "little friend", weasel is a picky eater, so even if pressed, they only choose the best quality coffee beans. Assuming a full meal, each night weasel can only excrete about 100 grams of raw waste. Therefore, if you're lucky, a weasel can provide 5-6kg of coffee. If harvested from the wild, the number may be even lower than that.

Not to mention currently in the world, there are only a few rare countries that can produce this item, typically Indonesia, Ethiopia, Vietnam... with a total output of only 200-300kg globally. In our country, weasel coffee is produced mainly in the Central Highlands (Dak Lak, Cau Dat - Da Lat and some farms in Binh Phuoc).

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Above, Huongmai Cafe explained why weasel coffee is so expensive. Stay tuned for more information that we will provide in the next article here. Hope this article is really useful to you.

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