Like my friends experience who’s just bought kopi luwak coffee at Semarang Airport. The price was quite expensive for me ($50 for 100 gr). But when he tried at his home, he found that the coffee’s taste is stale, just as same as ordinary cheap coffee which sold at mini-stores nearby. That damn experience which I wish will not happen to you.
The characteristic you must know about how to differentiate authentic and fake kopi luwak coffee / civet coffee are below:
- First, you should know that to experience best kopi luwak coffee is by drinking it by yourself and compare with other ordinary coffee. Hence you will find the difference taste of kopi luwak coffee and ordinary black coffee. The taste is definitely better.
- The color of green bean kopi luwak coffee is different from ordinary. Green bean of civet coffee is full uniformity of yellowish green, while the color of ordinary green bean is oldies green.
- Kopi luwak coffee smells different neither smells in green bean or roasted bean. It’s definitely that kopi luwak has more fragrant aroma. Kopi luwak green bean smells like pandan leaves fragrant. While the regular coffee, smells rather stale a bit like the smell of rice. Meanwhile, after kopi luwak green bean roasted, the smell of civet coffee could fill one house since the fragrant smell was very strong, while ordinary coffee aroma is only filling one room. Regarding to this issue, for giving you only the best kopi luwak in the world, at ORIGANO we have after-nose test as our standard of procedure before packing.
- Still about the green bean of kopi luwak, it doesn’t have black spots on its surface micro seeds while ordinary coffee has. But this circumstances only can be seen using microscopes.
- There’s more. Cuticle of kopi luwak green bean can be easily dislodged. While the ordinary coffee is pretty difficult to be removed.
- The taste of kopi luwak coffee is well suited for those who’s frequently drinking mix coffee. The bitter is reduced, richer flavor, with caramel flavor, thick like syrup, and full body. While this maximum taste can be reached with right portion and condition which can you explore here. At ORIGANO, we always have a cup of kopi luwak coffee to taste as a sample. This is another of our standard of procedure before packing. It’s just to ensure us that only the best kopi luwak coffee we offer to you.
- One more thing. Usually after drinking ordinary coffee people used to get urinate or poop. But it won’t happen with 100% real kopi luwak except you’ve just drank million litter of water.
- Feel sore stomach after drinking kopi luwak coffee? Well, it’s definitely false kopi luwak coffee you have.
