The Cherry Project

#15/100 coffee note.

I knew I should have updated with all those amazing coffees that I’ve been drinking recently.

Coffee 15/100 featuring Bolivia Takes Gesha roasted by Coffee Collective. I always enjoy coffee from Bolivia very much, high altitude which gives the coffee beautiful acidity with good sweetness which are so unique from this region.

Coffee in the sky. That’s how we called them.

#13/100 coffee note.

I love grocery shopping and it’s always fun to check out what’s new on the shelf in the instant coffee world. I used to have this pride of being in specialty coffee and turn my nose up on commercial coffee or chain stores, having this thought that they are both very different world. What a silly me. Perhaps they’re still in two different world, the world of coffee or caffeine, but what’s coffee without caffeine? It’s like drinking wine. You’re tasting the flavour and enjoying the tipsiness in a glass, or else you’d just go for some juices if you’re not into the benefit of alcohol.

Talking about the lazy days… when you ran out of your coffee beans, or lazy to work on your hand grinder, or craving for a quick coffee rush. I can’t deny how approachable are instant coffee nowadays which allow you to bring the cafe's coffee experience back home. I do have a range of instant coffee sitting on my kitchen rack (my husband still enjoy instant coffee sometimes while working from home, because he often finished my freshly brewed coffee too fast to avoid missing the best experience, or he just can’t help to finish it too quickly without noticing. Instant coffee will allow him to have better control of speed on his caffeine intake. Too complicated yes I know.)

Coffee #13/100 featuring coffees from We Are Little's. Trying their Italian Rich Roast blend and Colombia Excelso Antioquia, freeze-dried arabica coffee, the cup quality is pretty impressive for instant coffee. The Italian rich roast is definitely great for milk coffee, suitable people love to make a black coffee with a dash of milk, enough boldness to balance up with milk but not too roasty. The Colombian was surprising good for a lazy black. I was surprised to taste some decent acidity and sweetness which I won’t expect in instant coffee.

Would love to check out their other coffee and chocolate offerings too!

The transparency is playing a big part in sustainable coffee chain. How transparent can your business go? Here's another yearly report from a roastery based in Germany. Cheers!

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#10/100 coffee note.

Surprised Christmas coffee box gift sent by my secret Santa from home! Always fancy about good packaging and great branding story…they’ve been doing great and looking good, so here we are!

Coffee 10/100 featuring El Salvador Finca La Montañita roasted by Cloud Picker Coffee Roasters. To be honest I was looking forward to this coffee as it’s their special pick for this Christmas season, and it was good! This is a medium roast washed processed pacas & Pacamara, with tasting notes of roast chestnut, chocolate truffle, nougat…definitely a warm and sweet coffee for this cold winter!

Always being delighted with how much effort that people would dedicate into making their goods looking good and tasting great!

I've been asking what's the impact of climate change in specialty coffee or the coffee industry as a whole. Other than affecting the coffee production which translate to less profitable for farmer...not even cover the cost, the most heartache part is we gonna miss way lots of coffee varietals/ coffee flavours which still waiting to be discovered. Some might say it's not affecting much for specialty grade coffee as they're usually required to grow at high altitude. We have a choice of what we want to drink, but not all coffee farmers has a choice of what they can grow.

The global coffee crisis is coming It's becoming harder and harder to grow. Sources and Additional Reading:Andres Guhl http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0003960/guhl_a.pdfhttps://revistas.uniandes.edu...