In the early 2000s, Henrique Sloper de Aráujo, a farmer in Brazil, discovered that Jacu birds were causing serious damage to his coffee plantation.

Instead of trying to chase them away, he decided to make use of what the Jacu birds had left behind in their waste. He noticed that there were many coffee beans in this waste.

After recalling the famous weasel dung coffee in Indonesia, he came up with the idea of using Jacu bird droppings to produce special coffee.

He had difficulty convincing coffee pickers to harvest guano instead of coffee cherries. However, he succeeded and began the process of making coffee from Jacu bird droppings.

The process of making coffee from bird droppings is not easy. Coffee cherries from bird droppings need to be washed, peeled and roasted.

The result is a unique coffee with a fruitier and more sour flavor than other coffees. Its smell is described as that of anise.

Henrique Sloper de Aráujo’s plantation became the only place to produce coffee from Jacu guano.

With its uniqueness and rarity, this coffee has become a sought-after commodity in many countries such as France, Japan and England.

The price of this type of coffee is also very high, up to 1,700 USD/kg, considered the most expensive in the world.

After more than 10 years of business, coffee from Jacu bird droppings has become the most precious and expensive specialty in the world.