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About the year before last, the so-called world's most expensive coffee was exposed in the media, and many people thought it was a joke; when talking to people in the fine coffee industry, most of them sneered,"Hey! gimmick嘢啫。”When I came to the five-star elephant camp in the Golden Triangle of northern Thailand, founder Blake Dinkin repeatedly said that this coffee brand, which cost him three million yuan in ten years, could not be just for gimmick. His vision is definitely larger than coffee_"I pay several times more than the market price for coffee workers; 8% of sales, I give back to the elephant garden." In other words, drink elephant shit coffee to save the elephant? "I dare say that Elephant poop coffee is ethical. Cat poop coffee may not be."

■ The Golden Triangle Elephant Garden has good food and accommodation, and there are special personnel to serve, which is why Blake chose this place.

Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp& Resort, a luxury resort in northern Thailand, is atmospheric, quiet and sunny. Blake, a Canadian, talks as soon as he appears: "You wait for that car, we go to see the elephants. They are generally very obedient, but you still have to be careful and safe." Say see you, he jumped on his bike and stepped forward skillfully--the elephant camp in this area was an important base for his research and development of elephant shit coffee.

Ten years ago, Blake, who was originally doing cat excrement coffee business in Ethiopia, deeply realized the dark side of the industry."Cruelty to civets is one of them. The other problem is counterfeiting. In 2003, SARS and civets were considered to be one of the sources. China has killed them. After that, how much cat excrement coffee is real, you can imagine." Frustrated with the industry, but by animal digestive system to ferment coffee beans this technology, he does not want to give up,"animals in the digestive process, will release enzymes, enzymes can crack coffee beans protein, and protein is the source of coffee bitter taste, so this is the ideal way for coffee to bitter."

Victory in humanity

To continue to develop, he began to look for alternatives to civet cats, which is not just feeding an animal to eat coffee beans to shit,"I need animals, it is best to eat coffee beans naturally, and herbivorous animals digestive system fermentation time is longer, the effect will be better than omnivorous." Among herbivores, giraffes and cattle have more than one stomach, coffee beans are in and out, and cannot be used. All the above, only elephants are suitable." After traveling to more than 30 elephant farms in Indonesia, Laos and Thailand, Blake finally chose to settle in the Golden Triangle of Northern Thailand, in cooperation with the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation, because of its good sanitation and medical conditions, and there are Arabica coffee plantations nearby. After ten years of training, the first cup of coffee was introduced at the Anantara Hotel in late 2012.

The English name of elephant shit coffee is Black Ivory Coffee, which means coffee is as expensive as ivory. Blake also packaged it as a high-end consumer product. Now if you want to drink a cup of coffee like shit, you can't buy it online or find it in a coffee shop. You have to go to a designated five-star hotel to call it, and there are no more than 20 hotels in the world. Take Anantara, the Golden Triangle we are in. A 35-gram serving of elephant dung coffee beans costs 1,700 baht, or about HK$425, for four cups of Espresso. "Tang drink" words, the hotel is also a portion of the sale, do not set a single cup, in other words, the minimum consumption of 425 yuan per person, more people are more cost-effective. It wasn't a sky-high price, but it was a bit more expensive than cat feces coffee, which had an average of more than 100 yuan and had a flexible sales method.

But most importantly, Blake doesn't want coffee to become another animal cruelty tragedy by making workers earn enough. Blake pays 100 baht (about HK$25) and ensures that workers earn at least 300 baht (about HK$75) a day."45 minutes here, you earn a day's salary outside. If the worker is in a good mood, he will be good to the elephant." At the same time, in order to ensure that elephants are healthy and healthy, he donated 8% of the sales of elephant feces coffee to the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation to support medical and experimental expenses."8% is sales, not profits." Blake emphasized. "After the cat poop coffee, I know everyone is concerned about whether this kind of thing is humane, and I can assure you, this is ethical." Further, we are helping working families and elephant conservation." Poor people spend money on food and drink, rich people spend money on meaning.

Black Ivory Coffee is expensive worldwide ■ The minimum cost of tasting elephant shit coffee is about HK$425, and the serving size is about four cups. There is no single cup sale.

■ The minimum cost for a coffee tasting is about HK$425. The serving size is about 4 cups. There is no single cup sale.

Blake is certainly good at brewing coffee, and he has to personally train employees to make coffee for guests in hotels.

Elephants are not poisoned ■ Elephants eat coffee nuts will be caffeine poison? The answer is no. Coffee fruit shell has a protective effect, in addition to caffeine to be released by high temperature, coffee fruit for food will not be harmful to the object.

Elephants are not poisoned.

Can elephants get caffeine poisoning from eating coffee nuts? The answer is no. Coffee fruit shell has a protective effect, in addition to caffeine to be released by high temperature, coffee fruit for food will not be harmful to the object.

Black Ivory Coffee

33 kilograms of coffee berries to make a kilogram of coffee

Blake said that if you want to take it naturally, the cost will not come down. His principle is that everything is good, and elephants cannot be forced; coffee berries are picked from trees, mixed with bananas to make food, and elephants eat them if they want. If you are lucky, wait 15 hours, coffee beans will follow the stool discharge, by the special person responsible for selecting which can be used; but more often, big ivory marks bite coffee fruit to crush, or in the process of swimming shower gold, Blake lost money,"The current ratio is, 33 kilograms of coffee fruit, only to achieve a kilogram of elephant feces coffee." Cost effectiveness is extremely low.

Elephant shit coffee special grain: North Thailand 1,500 Michael original Arabica coffee fruit, fresh bananas.

■ Cat poop is thin, and elephant poop is always a big lump. It is easy to leak eyes and relatively difficult to find "gold" from poop.

Blake thinks this Austrian-style siphoning pot, designed in 1840, is the one that smells best like poop coffee.

Go to Macau for a kiss

Knowing that Elephant Shit Coffee had just gone to Macau, I immediately jumped aboard the boat and kissed the sea. Blake, the founder, even came to Macau to demonstrate in person this time, bringing me the best balancing Syphone for brewing coffee. Before he started, he explained to me the ins and outs of this in detail.

If you have research on coffee, you must know that in addition to coffee beans, factors such as roasting, grinding and brewing will affect the taste of coffee. To taste a cup of high-quality coffee, you must use your hand to enjoy its most authentic taste. "Sighing coffee is not only about the standard of that cup of coffee, but also about the environment, decoration and mood. It is a total experience." Blake said that the degree of roasting directly affects the taste of coffee. Blue Mountain coffee is moderately roasted, cat feces coffee is deeply roasted, but brewing elephant feces coffee can only be lightly roasted to make the aroma emanate. He said he tried many different forms of brewing and found that only the "siphon pot" designed in Austria in 1840 was the best. "Of course, beauty is very important to me. The appearance of this coffee pot is very beautiful. It is like a scale. When the iron pot is heated to 93 ° C, the hot water will flow into the glass pot under pressure. However, when the glass pot is heavier, the coffee liquid will naturally flow back into the iron pot. Because elephant feces coffee is different from cat feces coffee, once it is deeply roasted, the coffee flavor will be completely lost. Therefore, only the iron of this 'ancient coffee machine' can control the temperature of the coffee liquid. To brew its flavor.”

Slightly nutty and cranberry

After the coffee beans are discharged from the elephant, they must be washed manually and then roasted at a high temperature of more than 200℃. The whole process will be carried out in Thailand. At present, only 10 five-star hotels in Thailand and 3 in Maldives can enjoy it. Only MGM Macau Hotel in Greater China can taste it. Like Thailand, the hotel will cook elephant dung coffee in a siphon pot in front of guests. During this period, it communicates with guests that elephant dung coffee has the best flavor for about 45 seconds. It is recommended that guests smell it first and drink it directly without sugar milk. After drinking, they can smell the fragrance like perfume in the cup. As for the coffee taste, it is left to the guests to evaluate, some people say there is chocolate flavor, also say with caramel flavor; and I think this coffee smells first has a strong aroma, aroma like milk chocolate, drink up with a slight nutty, spicy and cranberry flavor, feel the coffee sweet fragrance first scattered to the cheeks, taste lighter than ordinary coffee, very easy to enter; like the long lasting taste of feces coffee, an hour later, swallow saliva, can still feel a light sweet back.

Each serving of Elephant Shite Coffee contains 35 grams of coffee beans and can brew 4 cups of Expresso coffee. 488 (approximately HK$474) per copy.

Vacuum brewed elephant shit coffee

1. Put the ground coffee into a glass pot, pour hot water into an iron pot and boil over high heat.

2. The water in the iron pot on the right flows into the glass pot from the iron pipe through vapor pressure, and the temperature at the beginning is about 93℃.

3. The glass pot cools to a vacuum, and the coffee liquid flows back into the iron pot.

Sky Cafe

MGM Grand Hotel, Sun Yat-sen Avenue, New Reclamation Area, Outer Harbour, Macau

The most expensive coffee beans in the world

Ordinary coffee beans cost about HK$100 per pound, but Thai elephant dung costs US$682 (about HK$5,320) per pound, a difference of dozens of times. It involves origin, output, production process and even vanity. The price of coffee is not worth it, depending on what angle you use.

1. Thailand elephant shit

Origin: Thailand Golden Triangle

Price: about HK$5,320 per pound

Features: low yield, light taste, aroma like milk chocolate, drink up with nuts, spices and cranberry flavor.

2. Indonesian cat shit

Origin: Indonesia

Price: about HK$1,248 per pound

Features: low output, uneven quality of incoming goods, thick and mellow taste, with a unique flavor.

3. Panama Emerald Estate Geisha

Origin: Panama

Price: about HK$811 per pound

Features: Geisha has been C.O.E. since 2003. Top of the Cup of Excellence ranking, status, coffee has an unusual jasmine aroma, nutty aroma.

4. St. Helena

Origin: Atlantic British St. Helena Island

Price: about HK$616 per pound

Characteristics: Cultivated on St. Helena Island from 1730 until Napoleon was exiled, it is known for its strong appreciation of coffee, its taste with core fruit and light tea aroma.

5. Guatemala El Injerto

Origin: Guatemala

Price: about HK$390 per pound

Characteristics: El Injerto has won the championship of Guatemala C.O.E. many times. The taste is complex, and the aftertaste is varied, detailed and persistent.