Elephant dung coffee costs over a million VND/cup, the most expensive quintessential drink in the world

According to Dailymail, this new type of coffee is produced in the mountainous region of Chiang Rai province, Northern Thailand. The new product quickly "overtook" the world's most expensive coffee from civet coffee when it was sold for $2,000/kg (compared to the price of about $1,000/kg for civet coffee).

There are about 20 elephants who eat and excrete coffee beans here. Blake Dinkin, the creator of this strange coffee, said that the acid in the elephant's intestines will remove the protein in the coffee beans (which is the cause of the bitter taste), thereby creating a special flavor, no longer bitter like regular coffee.

"The natural fermentation process in the elephant's intestines will create a coffee flavor that is definitely not possible with other types," Blake shared. He spent $300,000 to turn his idea into reality.

Not only that, the coffee excreted by elephants also has a fruity taste because it is digested along with bananas, sugarcane and some other things, and it takes 15 to 30 hours from the time the elephant eats the seeds until the "finished product". During the digestion process, many seeds are chewed, broken or disappear before being excreted, so about 33kg of seeds are used to obtain one kg of raw Black Ivory.

This is also part of the reason why the price of this coffee is so high. Initially, only a few luxury hotels in Thailand sold it, now the Republic of Maldives and the emirate of Abu Dhabi also sell it. The price of each cup of Black Ivory coffee is up to 50 USD (about more than one million VND).

Black Ivory also provides jobs for the wives of local elephant handlers, whose job is to dig through piles of elephant dung, pick out the undamaged coffee beans, then wash and sort them before sending them to roasters in Bangkok.

According to Dailymail

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