Film director, Orson Welles, once said, there are three things in life that one cannot tolerate: cold coffee, champagne gone warm and a woman who is overly excited. A soft gulp of coffee can enlighten one’s liveness, creativity and attitude towards an ever-lasting work day.

The world has produced some strange coffee, including the legendary Kopi Luwak (Civet Coffee), that uses a fermentation process through feline intestines. Thailand, recently, has invented a coffee, handpicked from cow’s dung. The coffee is said to be minimally acidic and bitter, but pricey, as it sells at US $300 per kg.

It might take some nerves to try this new coffee. According to online magazine, Taiguo, inspiration of the coffee came from the originality of Kopi Luwak at the Thailand Chiang Rai Agricultural College. First, healthy coffee beans are mixed with fruits of the Rain Tree, which are fed to a herd of cows. Farmers then regather the fermented coffee beans from the dung at a ‘suitable spot’, washed and stored for a year before it is roasted and sold. The complicated process is to increase the richness and aroma of the beans.

Those who had the nerves to try the coffee described the taste as slightly bitter and slightly acidic, before those flavors disappear into a fragrant wave of sweetness.

Since the Kopi Luwak craze began a decade ago, coffee connoisseurs have sought unusual ways to perfect a coffee brew, including the invention of Thailand’s Handpicked Elephant-Dung Coffee, Black Ivory, sold at US $250 per 100g, making it the most expensive coffee in the world.

Source: China Times