Luwak Coffee and Bali Coffee

BALI COFFEE

Bali Coffee well grows at highland. It is supposed that Indonesia introduced coffee when Dutch Colonization started in Indonesia. They might had brought the seed from Malabar Coast on West India. Some coffee estates opened during Dutch Colonization are still exist until now for example coffee planttion in West Java, and Kali Klatak East Java, Pabatu coffee plantation in North Sumatra, and in Tabek Fatah, Bukit Tinggi West Sumatra, and Lampung, South Sumatera. After Indonesian independence a big estate again developed in Padamaran area, Toraja, a joint with Japanese business organization, this product is famous in Japan as one of the best coffee products.Coffee estates are now managed by government as state's corporation. While privately owned coffee plantations are spreading out from west to east Indonesia. If we visit a shop here in Denpasar, a collection of coffee found from Lampung, Bukit Tinggi, Toraja, Bali and others. If the process is pure without any combination of other agricultural materials each of the area has it's specific taste. In big cities of Indonesia, especially in Denpasar combined coffee with other materials are more popular then pure coffee. In Bali, normally in the villages people still drink pure coffee while in the cities they choose to drink combined coffee. In Indonesia one famous combined coffee producer is Indo-Cafe with export quality. While in Bali there is combined coffee producer with export quality, and 1 pure coffee producer with export quality in Singaraja. This pure coffee people say has strong taste and is not suitable to drink if you have problem with high blood pressure or hypertension, and is good for those who has low blood pressure.

Coffee species with places of it lives

Bali coffee is one of the best coffee product you can drink in Bali, served hot with strong aroma. Bali coffee was planted since 19 century during the golden era of Klungkung kingdom. On that time, the land of Northern and Western part of this island was cultivated with many kind of agricultural products and coffee was one of it. The area of this plantation mainly covering 3 regencies in Bali, start from Tabanan, Singaraja and Bangli regency. We have two kind of coffee species growing : Robusta is one of coffee species grows in the highland and lives for many years with physical characters :

* Grow big and high, wide leaves, small round fruits, fragrant flower, many branches and can reach 5-7 meters height from the land.
* Favorable land for planting is cool climate, terraced land, 700-1000 above sea level.

Arabica is one of coffee species grows also in Bali. This species normally is productive between 5-15 years old. Physical characteristic of this species :

* Small t

runks, long and narrow leaves, the fruits bigger than Robusta, limited and short branches, can reach 1-2,5 meters height from the land.
* Suitable planting area at volcanic area with cool climate between 600-1000 above sea level.

HARVESTING TIME

Harvesting time is twice a year between July - August and February - March. Usually the farmer harvest their coffee when the coffee skin become yellow to red color. The best quality coffee prod

uced when coffee seeds taken from well mature fruits (red color skin). De

licious taste and strong aroma spread out in the air if the seed is already mature.

COFFEE PROCESS

* Drying system. Com

mon

people in Bali dries coffee seed

traditionally by exposing out the seed on cement floor in open area, then the sun dries it naturally. The drying process takes aro

und 1-2 weeks until the

seed is considered well dried.
* Storing. We need a year to store coffee seed if we want to get the best quality.
* Roasting. It takes around 20-30 minutes to roast until the

seed become brown to black color. In this process we don't use any kind

of flavor or chemical.
* Pounding. For export quality product, we use machine to found it until we get the best coffee powder.

What is Kopi Luwak or Luwak Coffee?

Kopi is the Ind onesian w ord for COFFEE. Luwak is a local name of the Asian palm civet in Sumatra. Kopi Luwak or civet coffee, is coffee made from the beans of coffee berries

which have been eaten by the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) and other related civets, then passed through its digestive tract. A civet eats the berries for their fleshy pulp. In its stomach, proteolytic enzymes seep into the beans, making shorter peptides and more free amino acids. Civets also eat small vertebrates, insects, ripe fruits and seeds. Passing through a civet's intestines the beans are then defecated, having kept their shape. After gathering, thorough washing, sun drying, light roasting and brewing, these beans yield an aromatic coffee with much less bitterness, widely noted as the most expensive coffee in the world. Kopi Luwak is produced mainly on the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago. Kopi luwak is a name for many specific cultivars and blends of arabica, robusta, liberica, excelsa or other beans eaten by asian Palm civets (LUWAK), hence the taste can vary greatly. Nonetheless, kopi luwak coffees have a shared aroma profile and flavor characteristics, along with their lack of bitterness. Kopi luwak tastes unlike heavy roasted coffees, since roasting levels range only from cinnamon color to medium, with little or no caramelization of sugars within the beans as happens with heavy roasting. Moreover, kopi luwak which have very smooth profiles are most often given a lighter roast. Iced kopi luwak brews may bring out some flavors not found in other coffees.

PACKAGING

To promote Balinese Coffee, the wholesalers use special packaging by showing Balinese special identification. The cover of packaging made from paper bag with nice color and Balinese picture on both bag side, easy brought for souvenir one.und in other coffees