How Elephant Coffee and Monkey Coffee are made the price of Elephant Coffee

Although Kopi Luwak Indonesian Kopi Luwak is one of the most popular poop coffee, it is not the only one. Elephant poop coffee, produced by Black Ivory Coffee Company in Chiang Sing, northern Thailand, is made in a way similar to Kopi Luwak. It's just that elephant coffee makes poop coffee easier to swallow.

How is it made? Compared with masked palm civet coffee, elephant poop coffee has experienced a controlled and morally conscious process. It begins with Arabica cherries, which grow 1500 meters above sea level. High altitude means that coffee beans are already of high quality.

Cherries are picked and brought to elephants. Unlike masked palm civet, elephants still maintain a healthy and diverse diet to ensure that coffee is mixed with other foods. After the digestion process, farmers then collect beans from feces and then process them further.

In any case, this is not an effective process, and it takes as many as 33 pounds of beans to make one pound of black ivory coffee, making it one of the rarest coffees, costing about $1000 a pound. Coffee is most common in five-star luxury hotels in Asia and the Middle East, and its profits are used for elephant protection.

What's that smell?

This expensive coffee extracted from elephant droppings has floral and chocolate flavors with hints of malt, spices, leather, cherries and even grass. Coffee is soft and mellow, more like tea, without any pungent bitterness.

Although it is often compared to masked palm civet coffee, the farmers who make black ivory coffee claim it is better. They attribute it mainly to the fact that, unlike masked palm civet, elephants are herbivores, and the vegetables in their diet help with the fermentation process, making the coffee smoother and removing all bitterness.

Monkey poop coffee

Another exotic coffee processed with the help of animal digestion is monkey coffee produced by Chikmagalur in India. The climate in the area is pleasant and coffee production is booming. Rhesus monkeys are species that live near plantations, and like other animals on the list, they like to eat juicy coffee cherries.

How is it made?

Although it is often called monkey poop coffee, this time, no feces are involved in the production process. finally! In this case, monkeys chew cherries and spit them out, so they are partially digested by saliva.

Like masked palm civet coffee, monkeys also choose the most mature, sweetest and best cherries, which is why the coffee quality is so good. After harvest, beans go through the routine process of washing, processing and drying. Interestingly, the beans partially digested by the monkeys turned gray instead of the usual green.

What's that smell?

Coffee processed with monkey saliva is full-bodied with pleasant acidity and less bitterness. These beans have very varied flavors, with citrus, nut, chocolate and prominent vanilla flavors. These exquisite flavors are most suitable for use in dumping or Philharmonic presses.

More affordable, at $320 a pound, the coffee is still so rare that less than 100 pounds are available for purchase throughout the year. This explains why a cup can cost you about $10.