2," "Good to the last dropping" - Dinkin has heard them all.Īnd while he's a good sport about it, it's clear he's tired of them, too. Let's just dispense with the jokes here and now, shall we? "I wouldn't spend 10 years and put my life savings on this if I didn't think it's for real, or I thought it was just going to be an overnight gag." "There's easier ways to make money," he says. But he insists there's nothing fake - or frivolous - about Black Ivory Coffee. He knows Kopi Luwak's image has been trashed because of concerns over counterfeiting, disease and animal abuse. Here's the catch: Hisīlack Ivory Coffee is made by passing coffee beans through the not insubstantial stomachs of elephants and then picking the beans out of, well, yeah, that.Ĭivet coffee that was all the rage a few years back Dinkin has just supersized the idea. Thailand's Golden Triangle, a region better known for another high-priced, if illegal, export: opium.Ĭanadian entrepreneur Blake Dinkin, 44, is betting his life savings that he can turn his idea into, well, gold. I s#&% you not: The world's most expensive coffee is now being produced in
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