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Students create civet coffee without cages

A group of college students produced coffee by imitatingthe natural fermentation that makes kopi luwak or civet coffee

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Bandar Lampung
Thu, February 13, 2014 Published on Feb. 13, 2014 Published on 2014-02-13T06:15:47+07:00

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A group of college students produced coffee by imitating the natural fermentation that makes kopi luwak or civet coffee.

'€œThis is a solution for coffee farmers in Lampung who have experienced a decrease in orders [for civet coffee],'€ Suroyo Roy, a student at  Darmajaya Informatics and Business Institute and one of the initiators of the project said Wednesday.

Roy claimed the artificial process of fermentation and enzyme reaction was the same as happened through digestion. '€œThe taste is the same as coffee beans digested by civets.'€

Earlier, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) organized a boycott of the country'€™s popular commodity kopi luwak due to the abuse of civets.

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