What's the difference between Kopi Luwak and Elephant shit coffee? The process of making coffee like shit is actually not cruel.

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Cat poop coffee is made from the droppings of Indonesian coconut cats (a kind of civet cats) as raw materials, while poop coffee is produced by the same principle, using elephant droppings as raw materials to produce coffee.

In fact, shit Coffee was founded by a Canadian living in Thailand, Blake Dinkin, inspired by Kopi Luwak, because he knew that Kopi Luwak actually trapped the civet in a cage, and then forcibly fed him coffee beans to produce such precious Kopi Luwak, he thought this method was too inhumane, so Blake wanted to produce a special coffee that is environmentally friendly and does no harm to animals. Hence the so-called "black ivory coffee" (Black Ivory Coffee), commonly known as "elephant shit coffee".

Blake Dinkin works with hotels in northern Thailand, where they feed 20 elephants, let them move freely, and extract coffee from their feces.

First of all, we have to pick fresh coffee beans by hand.

Bury the rice, bananas and coffee beans together.

And then feed it to the elephant.

Follow the elephant and walk around freely. It is said that the reason why poop coffee is so good is that coffee beans are naturally fermented in the elephant's stomach, and elephant stomach enzymes can remove the bitterness of coffee beans, so the brewed coffee has not only natural grass aroma and fruit aroma, but almost no bitterness.

After about 17 hours, the elephant will poop.

And the collector has to take the coffee fruit out of the elephant dung.

Then wash and extract to get the last coffee beans.

If you follow, you can make the most expensive coffee in the world-"like shit coffee".

In fact, the reason why shit coffee is so expensive is that in order to produce one kilogram of shit coffee, elephants have to eat 33 kilograms of coffee beans, and sometimes elephants defecate where people can't hold coffee beans, so it's not easy to get each one.