Elephants refine coffee beans

Black Ivory is the most expensive coffee in the world / connoisseurs appreciate the smooth taste

Chiang Mai. Refine coffee (Extract and more information on the book "coffee"), which can not only legendary civets in Java, but also some 30 elephants from the Anantara Golden Triangle Resort & Spa (excerpt and more information on the book "Spa") in northern Thailand. They are heavily involved in the rarest and also curious coffee in the world, the "Black Ivory Coffee", which has recently been sold exclusively at the Anantara Resorts in Thailand and the Maldives, and a price of 1100 U.S. dollars per kilogram on the world market traded.

The procedure is as simple as effective: the elephants eat the coffee cherries. By the digestive juices that are refined in a natural way. Enzymes act on the caffeine proteins and neutralize them largely, and the coffee will taste less bitter, is mild, without sacrificing flavor. The rest is for the mahouts and their families who collect the excreted beans and let them dry in the sun.
Basis for the rarity is a selection of Thai Arabica beans, which are harvested in 1500 meters. For a cup of Black Ivory to have the elephants and their owners to have the goods. To obtain 1 kg of roasted coffee, some 10,000 beans are needed that the elephant went to the heart - the equivalent of 33 pounds of coffee cherries.
But the effort is worth it - not only for the coffee connoisseur, but also for the producers: For 8 percent of the sale proceeds will benefit the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation, a foundation that was established by Anantara in life and under whose auspices the project stands. With the money earned so far succeeded, 30 elephants and their owners to provide a reliable livelihood.