What is Xiangshi coffee? The most expensive Xiangshi coffee in the world has attracted the attention of netizens. The production process of Xiangshi coffee can't bear to look straight! According to Western media, in the eyes of black & middot; Ding Jin, a Canadian entrepreneur, the road to find a recipe for making coffee is the longest and hardest road in the world. It took him 10 years to extract the world's most expensive dung coffee from the dung.
In an interview with the media, Ding Jin said that when he tasted the results of his first experiment in 2003, it was terrible. This first sip of coffee only tastes like an elephant. Although he has experienced failure again and again, Dingjin has not given up the pursuit of target coffee.
Dinkin has been devoted to the research of coffee all his life, and has participated in the cat excrement coffee project in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. He hoped to use his expertise to create a new sustainable coffee industry and create benefits for human society, so he began to try to use other animals to develop high-quality coffee.
Ding Jin said: 'I heard that in the dry season, elephants went out of the jungle to look for food in the coffee garden because of hunger and thirst, but it annoyed the coffee farmers. Many elephants were poisoned. 'after hearing this story, Ding Jin gave up the idea of using giraffes, zebras and lions to make coffee.
In the past 10 years, Ding Jin has traveled almost all over the world, and finally decided to take root in Thailand. He established his own brand, black ivory, in bandagarang, east of Sulin Prefecture.
Dingkin said he thought it was too simple at first: feed the elephant coffee beans, then collect feces and clean and dry them. But this is not the case, until 2011 he did not get satisfactory results. But he never gave up perfecting like shit coffee. Some people tried to imitate Ding Jin, but gave up in less than a few weeks.
Since 2012, Ding Jin has cooperated with the Golden Triangle Foundation in northern Thailand. The local elephants have been treated well, living conditions are very good, and the daily diet is very rich. So dinkin moved all his business to Surin in 2016.
There are more than 300 elephants living in Banda Garang, a poor area whose economy mainly depends on rice cultivation, which mainly serves local agriculture and tourism.
Dingjin signed an agreement with local poor households to develop elephant dung coffee with 27 elephants raised by them. Ding Jin's salary is not a small income for these poor families. These poor households pick out coffee beans from the dung of elephants one by one, and get 10 dollars per kilogram. Compared with the income in the coffee garden, this figure is quite considerable.
Ding Jin said elephants eat rice, fruits and vegetables mixed with coffee beans, and digestive enzymes in the gastric juice can remove the protein that causes coffee beans to suffer. The coffee beans immersed in juice and vegetable juice will be fermented in the elephant's stomach, thus producing a unique sweet fruit flavor.
One kilogram of elephant dung coffee can be produced for every 33 kilogram of coffee beans eaten by elephants, because most of the coffee is lost in the process of elephant walking or swimming.
Dingjin's black elephant toothed elephant dung coffee costs 180 euros per 100 grams (about 1386 yuan). In some five-star hotels or Michelin restaurants, a cup of brewed elephant dung coffee costs more than 60 dollars (about 414 yuan).
Ding Jin said: 'I'm not selling coffee, but a life experience. 'now the annual output of black elephant toothed elephant dung coffee can reach 150 kg, and he hopes to continue to expand business. He said: 'I will continue to make coffee like shit anyway. I love this animal, and I love my work more. '