Challenge the taste of elephant dung coffee

What is like dung coffee?

The official name of the dungeon coffee is “Black Ivory Coffee”, a coffee grounded with coffee beans digested and excreted by Thai elephants and produced at the Asian Elephant Base in the Golden Triangle. The enzyme in the elephant body breaks down the proteins in the beans during the digestion process, thus making it almost free of the bitter taste of ordinary coffee. The coffee is produced and distributed by Black Ivory Coffee. Due to the extremely limited supply, it is only sold in a few five-star hotels in the world, and it is expensive. In October 2012, this type of coffee was first introduced by Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas, for $25/cup, making it one of the most expensive coffees in the world.

Like manure coffee production process?

The production process of elephant dung coffee is also quite peculiar. First, elephants should be fed with Arabica coffee beans grown at an altitude of about 1,500 meters in the north of Thailand. After these coffee beans are digested in elephants, the excrement of elephants is excreted. This will contain the beans that are used to make manure-like coffee; it will be hand-picked and workers will pick up these undigested beans from the excrement of the elephant; then the beans will be cleaned, of course, to ensure that the beans are “Delicious food” generally requires that the carefully selected coffee beans be dried in the sun, and then baked, so that the peculiar coffee beans are initially completed. Finally, it is to brew like manure coffee. In order to ensure the freshness of the coffee and enhance the sensory experience of the customers, the staff will manually grind the coffee beans on site and then brewed using the traditional traditional siphon coffee balance method.

How is the smell of elephant dung coffee?

Like the smell of manure coffee milk chocolate, nuts, spices and berry flavor. Is it really delicious? The people who tasted dung-like coffee also commented on it. Some people said: "It smells like floral, chocolate, and earthy. It tastes like chocolate, nutty and a little bit spicy. It has a rich taste. There is a texture of tea." However, some people also commented: “It's really difficult to swallow like a manure coffee, it's a steamed bun and it's not worth spending money to buy smelly coffee.”

There are even cats coffee!

Coincidentally, the world still has "cat licking coffee," which uses coffee beans digested by civet cats. Really big in the world, there is no wonder! Only sigh that human taste buds are really rich!