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The big farm producing
the famed weasel coffee in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has
opened its door for visitors to see the entire process of making the coffee
with the help of domesticated animals.
Location & Area of weasel coffee farm
The two-hectare farm at
135E Hoang Hoa Tham Street, Da Lat city, is keeping as many as 120 weasels (a
type of civet) with the permission of the local forest management agency, and
can produce an average of 500 kilograms of weasel coffee every year.
The place for tourists
are interested in coffee
Visitors to the farm can see the entire process of
making the coffee with the help of the domesticated animals which are under
supervision of the local forest management agency.
Meeting the owner of farm
“For every coffee crop, the weasels, a type of
civet, are fed with highest quality Arabica coffee berries. The coffee beans
which are relatively undigested and intact in their droppings were then
collected, cleaned and processed for sale,” the farm’s owner Mr. Nguyen Quoc
Minh said.
Experts say the enzymes inside weasels’ stomach give
the undigested coffee beans delightful taste and distinctive aroma. Mr.
Minh said, the coffee has been checked and recognised by the Pasteur Institute
of Da Lat and the Nuclear Research Institute for good quality and hygiene.
The publicizing of weasel coffee production process
at the farm contributes to popularising the quality and trademark of Vietnamese
coffee, as well as creating a new sight-seeing spot for tourists in Da Lat city.
ABOUT WEASEL COFFEE –
CIVET COFFEE
Weasel coffee is the name of a special coffee, the
rarest drink in the world. This kind of coffee exists only in the Central
Highlands of Vietnam. It is collected from coffee farms, which is the feces
discarded by wild weasels after eating mature coffee beans. Thus, it is really
rare.
Trai Ham Weasel Coffee is produced under closed
process. Clean Moka coffee farm and Weasel farm. Weasels eat mature coffee
beans and discard feces, then people collect it and process.
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In Indonesia, the word Kopi Luwak is used
to refer to this Weasel Coffee. However, the material of Moka coffee from Cau
Dat, Trai Ham in Dalat with the height of over 1500m is the best.
In Weasel’s digestive system, with the
fermentation of enzymes in stomach, the taste of this coffee is changed and
becomes more tasteful mixed with the smell of mold. John Cleese, a Bristish
actor stated: “It has the buttery taste of soil, immature taste of mold, solf
sweet, also like the taste of syrup, like that it brings the harmony of jungle
and chocolate”.
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