A Canadian inventor in Thailand is betting a small fortune that his brew made from elephant dung, the world's most expensive cup of joe, is the next big thing in the world of coffee.

“When an elephant eats coffee, its stomach acid breaks down the protein found in coffee, which is a key factor in bitterness,” said Blake Dinkin, who has spent $300,000 developing the coffee.

In the lush, green hills of northern Thailand, a woman painstakingly picks coffee beans out of a pile of elephant dung, an essential part of making one the world’s most expensive beverages. June ...

"When an elephant eats coffee, its stomach acid breaks down the protein found in coffee, which is a key factor in bitterness," said Blake Dinkin, who has spent $300,000 developing the coffee.

The elephant dung coffee is made from beans eaten and digested by elephants living on a reserve in Thailand. When animals pass the beans in their excrement, they are harvested, cleaned up and ...

Share this article! AP: A herd of 20 elephants in Thailand eats coffee beans and then the beans are collected from their dung to make an exotic brew. Stomach turning or oddly alluring, this is not ...

Black Ivory Coffee is made from pure Arabica beans hand-picked by hill-tribe women from a small mountain estate, then eaten by Thai elephants and plucked a day later from their dung, then ...

In this Dec. 4, 2012 photo, a Thai mahout's wife jokingly poses with a plastic basket containing coffee beans freshly cleaned from elephant dung below the tail of an elephant in Chiang Rai ...