Elephant dung coffee

Replace Kopi Luwak to become an upstart elephant dung coffee is sought after

Indonesia's "Kopi Luwak" was once the world's most expensive coffee, but the name has been replaced by Thailand's Golden Triangle "Elephant dung Coffee" as a new favorite of coffee families.

Elephant dung coffee means that after the elephant eats the coffee beans and excretes them through the digestive system, the staff collects the coffee beans from the elephant dung, cleans them and then processes them, and then becomes a delicious elephant dung coffee. Elephant dung coffee, which tastes like milk chocolate, nuts, spices and cranberries, costs $1100 (about 5378 ringgit) per kilogram.

Elephant dung coffee beans are extracted from the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Base, which is located in the Golden Triangle Resort of Anatala, Chiang Rai, Thailand.

According to the Anattara Hotel in Thailand, in the Chiang Rai Golden Triangle Resort, the Anattara Hotel has its own large elephant camp, and their coffee beans are extracted from this. Studies have shown that enzymes in elephants destroy coffee protein, because protein is one of the most important factors contributing to coffee bitterness, so less protein means coffee has almost no bitterness.

Elephant dung coffee beans are extracted from the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Base.

Elephant dung coffee beans are extracted from the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Base, which is located in the Golden Triangle Resort of Anatala, Chiang Rai, Thailand.

According to the Anattara Hotel in Thailand, in the Chiang Rai Golden Triangle Resort, the Anattara Hotel has its own large elephant camp, and their coffee beans are extracted from this. Studies have shown that enzymes in elephants destroy coffee protein, because protein is one of the most important factors contributing to coffee bitterness, so less protein means coffee has little bitterness.

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But coffee without bitterness has its price. Ivory dung coffee, known as black ivory, retails for $1100 a kilogram, or $50 a cup. This price makes it one of the most expensive coffee in the world.

Cat dung coffee, by contrast, has the same concept: animals drink coffee and destroy protein through digestion. Cat dung coffee retails for about $500 to $600 per kilogram, or we can say $30 a cup.

Today, with the exception of the group Golden Triangle Resort in northern Thailand, black ivory coffee is available only in four resorts in Anattara, Maldives.

A selection of coffee beans from elephant dung

A selection of coffee beans from elephant dung

In Anattara, customers who buy black ivory coffee always watch coffee beans made by hand milling and using the traditional siphon coffee horizontal method.

Anattara Hotel said: first go to the height of 1500 meters above sea level to pick Thai Arabica coffee cherries, beans hidden inside. After eating the beans, the elephant is digested and excreted. All this is just as nature instructs it to do.

The elephant husbands and their wives in the camp carefully selected the beans and dried them in the sun.

The Anatalakin Triangle Asian Elephant Base is located in the Golden Triangle Resort, where coffee is extracted.

So far, the base has rescued 30 stray elephants and saved the elephant husbands and their families. 8% of coffee sales will be given to the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Base.