Coffee is called "black gold" for a reason, just look at Taiwan now whether convenience stores or supermarkets can buy coffee at any time you know the potential of "black gold", creating business opportunities to be scary.
But top coffee. Do you know how much you can get for a cup? The answer is $1500 a cup. Can you imagine yourself drinking a $1500 cup of coffee?
And the coffee beans in this cup were picked up from elephant dung? And why do coffee beans picked up from elephant poop make the best coffee?
"Elephant dung coffee" production process photo record
The official name of this coffee is actually Black Ivory Coffee, inspired by the premium civet coffee (also known as cat poop coffee) born from cat poop.
Blake Dinkin, the Canadian entrepreneur who invented the coffee, teamed up with hotels in northern Thailand to raise 20 elephants locally to produce the expensive coffee.
After picking the coffee fruit (two photos above), mix it with fruit and rice
This is the elephant's snack.
Watch the elephants enjoy their snacks
Watch the elephants enjoy their snacks
It is said that "elephant dung coffee" tastes good because coffee beans are naturally fermented in the elephant stomach, and the enzymes in the elephant stomach can remove the bitterness of coffee beans, so the coffee brewed not only has natural grass fragrance and fruit fragrance, but also has almost no bitterness.
When the elephants are full ~ let the elephants go to activities
15-30 Elephants will poop in 10 hours.
The workers at the elephant park will pick up the precious elephant dung
from which to extract the coffee fruit.
The disadvantage of elephant dung coffee is that it is not efficient. An elephant eats 33 kilograms of green coffee fruit, but it will only increase by 1 kilogram.
After that, the coffee beans are washed and extracted by local people.
And then boiled ~
That's the $1500 cup of Elephant Poop Coffee.
Elephant dung coffee is expensive, but 8% of the profits will be donated to local elephant rescue organizations to protect the lives of the elephant farmers in the elephant park.
So as long as you don't rush to improve efficiency and mass produce something, it should be a good deal for mutual benefit ~
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