Move aside cat poo kopi!!

[Jman888]

drinking sh!t is becoming expensive nowadays [laugh]

 

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Elephant poo coffee: The new world's most expensive coffee

October 15, 2012

 

Move aside civets, here comes another animal that is now making the most expensive coffee in the world - the Thai elephants.

 

The original 'poo coffee', kopi luwat or civet coffee, is produced by feeding the small cat-like creatures coffee fruits that are digested and excreted in droppings, and are then washed, dried and ground into coffee. Its digestion process gives the famed flavour of luwak.

 

Anantara Resorts in Thailand and Maldives are among the first hotels in the world to serve the new 'poo coffee', Black Ivory Coffee, which is created from a process where the coffee beans are digested and naturally refined by Thai elephants.

 

The gentle creatures are fed only Thai Arabica coffee beans grown at an altitude of 1,500 metres.

 

The enzymes of the elephant supposedly breaks down the coffee protein and since protein is one of the main factors responsible for bitterness in coffee, less protein means almost no bitterness in the coffee.

 

After the beans are ingested and excreted, as nature dictates, the individual beans are handpicked by elephant trainers and their wives, and are then dried in the sun.

 

Now, how expensive is Black Ivory Coffee? It retails at approximately US$1,100 (S$1,345) per kg, making it one of the most expensive and exclusive in the world along with civet coffee, which costs about US$600 per kg.

 

This would mean that a single cup can cost around US$50.

 

Only 50kg of Black Ivory Coffee are currently available for sale. Stock is limited and dependant on the elephants' efficiency, which is rather lacking - in order to produce just 1kg of Black Ivory Coffee, they must eat more than 33,000 beans.

 

In order to demonstrate the freshness while serving, the coffee is ground by hand at the table and brewed using technology developed in 1840 in Austria.

 

A consistent 93-degree Celsius temperature is required and the contact time between water and bean must be timely in order for a clean and flavourful taste.

 

If you're worried about the state of the elephants at the plantation, Anantara says part of the money paid for Black Ivory Coffee goes to helping the elephants rescued at its foundation, the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation, which has rescued 30 street elephants so far.

 

Eight per cent of all coffee sales will be donated to help fund a specialist elephant veterinarian, as well as to purchase medicine and build a new laboratory.

 

klim@sph.com.sg

[The_Bear]

I wonder what happens if we feed the elephants milo & ccf

[Shull]

drinking sh*t is getting more and more common.. no wonder everyone's shitty nowadays.. [laugh]

[Jman888]

  On 10/16/2012 at 2:12 AM, Bavarian said:

I wonder what happens if we feed the elephants milo & ccf

 

 

please dun, that is the cheapest food i can get to survive till 80 years old

[Enye]

i wonder how much will polar bear's poo kopi costs?

 

[Jman888]

  On 10/16/2012 at 2:14 AM, Enye said:

i wonder how much will polar bear's poo kopi costs?

 

 

 

priceless, you can't even get near one, unless they start a cafe on their own [laugh]

Edited October 16, 2012 by Jman888

[PorkChong]

  On 10/16/2012 at 2:14 AM, Enye said:

i wonder how much will polar bear's poo kopi costs?

 

 

that would be ice cold coffee.

[Tayspiderx]

Feel sorry for the elephant having to take in the coffee bean so that the shitty bean can come out...

 

...may be night safari has been doing it all along to keep their elephant up at night

[LeftRighty]

This sounds very contrived. The civets are not force fed the beans. One of the reason why Luwak is so good is because the civets will only pick and eat the most fragrant kopi beans. Don't think the taste of the Black Ivory Coffee can justify the cost.

[Mockngbrd]

next time will have chio bu poo coffee

[Gitanic]

Why nobody open shop sell pure poo?

[Ahseng]

so expensive "SAI" kopi. Me peon just have to stick to my good old 2-1 KOPI-O for daily dose of caffeine.

[Jman888]

  On 10/16/2012 at 2:49 AM, Ahseng said:

so expensive "SAI" kopi. Me peon just have to stick to my good old 2-1 KOPI-O for daily dose of caffeine.

 

 

expected cos you are ah seng [laugh]

[The_Bear]

  On 10/16/2012 at 2:14 AM, Enye said:

i wonder how much will polar bear's poo kopi costs?

 

 

Ice blended and full of $hit.

[Watwheels]

Someone should try to give a horse some little blue pill and sell the cum.

[Jman888]

  On 10/16/2012 at 2:59 AM, Watwheels said:

Someone should try to give a horse some little blue pill and sell the cum.

 

 

i think you probably end up selling more horse meat instead

[Mazdaowner]

Worlds apart between this and luwak.

I'm still staying with luwak being the best beans picked

and Blue Jamaica.

[Lilymak]

Haha i am a hardcore coffee fan, but that's a line I won't cross.

Wonder how people come up with these things???