Black Tusk (Rum Barrel-Aged)
Corporate Ladder Brewing Company

Rum Barrel-Aged Imperial Sweet Stout with Black Ivory Coffee & Comoros Vanilla Beans.

Black Ivory Coffee is among the world's most expensive coffees at over 1k per pound. An average of 300 pounds of coffee is produced every year. Black Ivory Coffee is consumed by elephants in Thailand and collected from their waste. The taste of Black Ivory coffee is influenced by the elephants' digestive enzymes, which ferments the cherries. The supply of Black Ivory coffee depends on the availability of coffee cherries, the appetite of the elephants, the number of beans destroyed through chewing of the beans and the ability of the mahouts and their wives to recover intact beans. The high price of the product is largely due to the large number of coffee cherries needed to produce the finished product: 72 pounds of raw coffee cherries results in two pound of finished product. A portion of Black Ivory Coffee Company sales are donated to the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation, which is used to fund the elephants' health care. The consumption of the coffee cherries does not adversely affect the elephants, and veterinary tests concluded that caffeine is not absorbed from the coffee cherries they consume.
Production of Black Ivory Coffee also provides valuable income generation for elephant care-giving families as well as students of the local high school who are taught how to wash and dry our coffee.