A Thai elephant and a mahout (the keeper and rider of an elephant) walk along the field at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort on Dec. 10, 2012 in Golden Triangle, northern Thailand. The resort is the production site for Black Ivory Coffee, a brew made from beans plucked from elephant dung.

A mahout's wives pick out coffee beans from elephant dung at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort on Dec. 9.

A mahout's wives pick out coffee beans from elephant dung at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort on Dec. 10.

Thai elephants head to the river for an early morning bath at an elephant camp at the Anantara Golden Triangle resort on Dec. 10.

A girl looks at a coffee grain-made paint, competing for a Guinness book record, in central Moscow on June 26. One painter and his five assistants made a 30 square meters mural within twelve days.

An artist assistant sticks coffee beans on a mural while completing the creation after more than ten days of work at the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure in Moscow, on June 26. According to participants and event organizers, the artwork that occupies an area of about 30 square meters has been considered the biggest picture in history made of coffee beans. Its creators intend to send an application to get the artwork to be registered in the Guinness World Records book.

A worker selects coffee beans from coffee plants during a harvest at a farm in Esp'rito Santo do Pinhal, Brazil. Brazil's coffee crop faces a smaller risk of frost this year, forecasters said, lowering chances that the world's biggest producer will suffer freezes that contributed to 34-year high in prices last year.

A worker selects coffee beans from coffee plants.

A tractor loaded with coffee beans drives through a coffee field.

A worker rakes coffee beans to dry during.

Workers unload coffee beans from a tractor.

Workers pick coffee beans from coffee plants.

A worker stands next to a sacks of coffee beans at Sumatra factory.

A worker carries a sack of coffee beans at Sumatra factory.

Cups of latte are seen on display following the Coffee Fest New York Latte Art Championships at the Javits Center in New York, March 11.

Yeung Yiu-fai, from Hong Kong was the overall winner of the Coffee Fest New York Latte Art Championships at the Javits Center in New York, March 11.

Men drink chai tea on the platform prior to departing from the Nizamuddin Railway Station in New Delhi on Feb. 7, 2012.

People drink tea from a roadside tea stall in New Delhi, India, on Feb. 5, 2012. There are numerous tea vendors who set up shop under a tree or on the streets in India, but the quality of chai they offer for five rupees (10 cents) is often suspect.

Customers at a premium Cafe Coffee Day outlet in Bangalore on Jan. 31, 2012.

A contestant pours coffee for the judges during the World Barista Coffee Championship in Bogota on June 2, 2011. The competition is taking place, for the first time, in a major coffee producing country, hosted by the Colombian Coffee Federation and the Speciality Coffee Association of Colombia and held within the 4th Annual Expoespeciales trade show.

Pilly Pollen, a barista from Australia, prepares coffee during an exhibition as a part of the World Baristas Championship in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, June 2, 2011.

A four month old Luwak is tempted by some red coffee beans at the BAS Coffee plantation on Jan. 20, 2011, in Tapaksiring, Bali, Indonesia. The Luwak is an Asian palm civet, which looks like a cross between a cat and a ferret.

A Luwak snacks on coffee berries inside its cage on Jan. 16 in Bali, Indonesia. The civet climbs coffee trees to find the best berries, eats them, and eventually the coffee beans come out in its stools as a complete bean.

Wayan Dira collects the Luwak stool under their cage on Jan. 20 in Pupuan village, Bali, Indonesia. The stool is collected once a day for processing. Sari and her husband Wayan Dira have had a small coffee business for the last two years in the coffee region of western Bali. They own nine Luwaks and are now producing the expensive coffee hoping to cash in on the desire for the rare beans. Luwak coffee is produced mainly on the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, and also in the Philippines.

Sari grinds Luwak beans in an old rusted grinder Jan. 20 in Pupuan village, Bali, Indonesia. The Luwak coffee is known as the most expensive coffee in the world because of the way the beans are processed and the limited supply. Luwak coffee is produced mainly on the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, and also in the Philippines.