貴過貓屎咖啡 象屎咖啡一杯370蚊

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「象屎咖啡」一杯370港元(互聯網)  

「貓屎咖啡」(又稱麝香貓咖啡)被一些愛好咖啡的人士稱為上品，但據說泰北金三角地區出產的「象屎咖啡」，比「貓屎咖啡」更香濃柔順，真是一山還有一山高，一屎還有一屎香。

「象屎咖啡」又稱為「黑象牙咖啡」，號稱是全世界最貴的咖啡，一杯價格約為370港元，是加拿大咖啡商人丁金(Blake Dinkin)的研究成果。該種咖啡只在泰北金三角地區的安納塔拉大象營地及度假村(Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort)出產。據咖啡專家研究，咖啡豆通過動物腸胃後，其蛋白質會經過酵素分解，苦味變得沒那麼強。為了製作「象屎咖啡」，度假村內的大象日常食物裡面包含了咖啡豆，在他們消化後，排泄物迅速被收集，再揀出咖啡豆進行焙製。該度假村更推出「早上騎大象、下午喝象屎咖啡」的行程，愛好咖啡和冒險的人士或可考慮參加。

資料來源：澳洲Courier Mail/東森新聞 / 蘋果日報（27 December 2014）


Mahout's wives pick out coffee beans from elephant dung at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort on Dec. 10, 2012, in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand. Black Ivory Coffee, started by Canadian coffee expert Blake Dinkin, is made from Thai arabica hand picked beans. The coffee is created from a process whereby coffee beans are naturally refined by a Thai elephant. It takes about 15-30 hours for the elephant to digest the beans, and later they are plucked from their dung and washed and roasted. Approximately 10,000 beans are picked to produce 1kg of roasted coffee. At $1,100 per kilogram or $500 per pound, the cost per serving of the elephant coffee equals about $50, making the exotic new brew the world's priciest. It takes 33 kilograms of raw coffee cherries to produce 1 kilo of Black Ivory Coffee.

Source: http://goldentriangle.anantara.com/elephantcamp.aspx