不得不說做生意的人果然不是一般人啊，這種辦法都能想的出來。確實，大象自己吃的食物消化不完，拉出來也是完整的，拿來再次利用也是極好的，而且野生大象其實是很乾淨的，所以這種用動物糞便制出來的酒雖然聽著不好聽，很有可能喝起來獨有一番風味呢～
It’s hard to believe that elephant dung could be the main ingredient of a premium spirit drink, but it’s true. South African gin Indlovu is made with botanicals harvested from the pachyderm poop.
真的很難相信大象糞便中的提取物竟然是高級烈酒中的主要成分，但這是真的。南非的杜松子酒Indlovu就有厚皮動物的糞便提取物成分。
Paula and Les Ansley, both former professors in different fields of biology, decided to moved from the UK to South Africa, after retiring, and come up with a way to contribute to conservation efforts in the region and support the local community.
Paula和Les Ansley是生物學不同分支的兩位退休教授，他們退休後想要為保護和支持非洲作出一份貢獻，於是決定從英國搬到非洲。
Neither of them had any idea that elephant dung would play such a big part in their plan, it just sort of happened. Today they run a distillery that uses 「botanicals foraged by elephants」 and harvested from their poop to create Indlovu gin, a unique spirit that doesn’t taste anything like you』d imagine.
兩個人怎麼也沒想到大象的糞便會在他們的工作中扮演如此重要的角色，但確實如此。如今，他們經營著一家酒廠，從大象的糞便中提取出大象之前採食的植物成分，進而生產出一種獨特的英德洛夫金酒，這種酒的味道和大家想像的完全不同。
The Ansleys came up with the idea of their unique spirit a few years back, while visiting an animal reserve in South Africa. A game ranger was explaining to them how elephants are very particular about the food they forage, but absorb less than half of what they eat, with the other half of their plant diet remaining intact in their dung.
Ansleys幾年前在參觀非洲的一個動物保護區時，想到了這個主意。一位獵場管理員向他們解釋說，大象覓食是非常挑剔的，但它們的身體只能吸收掉一半的食物，所以它們食入的另一半植物性食物可以完好無損地保存在它們的糞便中。
Les, a gin lover, asked himself why not let elephants collect the best natural ingredients, and use them to flavor a unique gin?
Les非常愛杜松子酒，於是就問管理員為什麼不讓大象去搜集最好的自然成分，然後用這些成分來做一種風味獨特的杜松子酒呢？
Although neither of them had any distilling experience, the two came up with a plan to source and use elephant dung to make a high-quality spirit, and in 2018 they founded Indlovu Gin.
儘管他們兩人都沒有任何蒸餾經驗，但兩人還是想出了一個計劃，即從大象糞便中尋找可以利用的自然資源來釀造高品質的烈酒，最後他們於2018年成立了英德洛夫金酒公司。
「We contacted Botlierskop [Game Reserve in the Western Cape] and we said, do you think you could send us some elephant dung?」 Les Ansley told the journalist. 「They said, yeah sure, no problem, and they mailed us some elephant dung and we started looking at how to prepare it.」
「我們聯繫了Botleerskop（西開普省的野生動物保護區），我們說，你能給我們寄些大象糞便嗎？Les Ansley告訴記者。「他們說，當然可以，沒問題，於是便給我們寄了一些大象糞便，接著我們就開始研究如何準備製酒了。」
First, the dung is dried and then goes through a sterilization process. It is then rinsed and dried again, and finally infused into the gin. Apart from the classic gin ingredients, like juniper and coriander, Indlovu also gets its flavor from extracts of the elephants』 diet of roots, grasses, fruit and bark, including aloe and acacia.
首先，將糞便烘乾，然後進行消毒處理。然後再次衝洗和乾燥，最後注入杜松子酒中。除了經典的杜松子酒成分，如杜松子和胡荽，英德洛夫酒裡還包含了從大象的糞便中的根類，草，水果和樹皮，以及蘆薈和阿拉伯膠樹的殘餘物中提取出的成分。
Every bottle of Indlovu features the GPS coordinates of where the dung was collected from, as well as the date it was collected on. 「Depending on where we collect the botanicals or which elephants we collect botanicals from, the gin flavor is going to change slightly,」 Les Ansley said.
每一瓶英德洛夫都有收集糞便的GPS坐標以及收集日期。Les Ansley說：「根據我們從哪裡獲得這些植物提取成分或從哪頭大象那裡獲取到的植物提取成分，杜松子酒的味道會略有變化。」。
「It’s got an earthy, grassy-type flavor,」 Les Ansley said. 「We were very aware that if we are making a gin from dung, we have to make a good gin.」
Les Ansley說：「酒裡有一種泥土和青草的味道。我們很清楚，如果要用糞便釀造杜松子酒，就必須釀造出好的杜松子酒。」
The Andleys』 distillery donated 15% of its profits to the Africa Foundation to support the conservation of elephants.
Ansley夫婦將其收益的15%直接捐獻給了非洲基金會，用來支持保護非洲大象。
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