Elephant coffee $50 a cup: Feces produces exotic brew

This is crazy.

Elephant coffee for $50 a cup sounds not only strange, but expensive. That's because it's actually both. According to a Dec. 7 NBC News report, the feces of elephants in Golden Triangle, Thailand help produce this exotic brew.

Turns out the Thai elephants eat beans and coffee makers have discovered that a gut reaction happens within the elephant before they defecate their dung. After the elephants excrete their waste, the digested beans are plucked out of their feces. Does that sound like something that you would spend $50 a cup on in coffee?

The elephant drink is called Black Ivory Coffee and mostly sold to only the wealthy. It was introduced in November to a few luxury hotels in various parts of the world and is now in Maldives and Abu Dhabi.

Blake Dinkin invested $300,000 into creating this $50 a cup coffee produced by elephants.

"When an elephant eats coffee, its stomach acid breaks down the protein found in coffee, which is a key factor in bitterness," said Dinkin. "You end up with a cup that's very smooth without the bitterness of regular coffee."

Does the elephant coffee sound intriguing to you?