Kyoto | TYPICA Lab

Bolivia day3

kuroki — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 11:19:00 +0000

It’s third morning in Bolivia☺️

Two days have flown by since we arrived here.

I harvested and processed beautiful coffee cherries yesterday.

It was hard to figure out which cherries are ripe and which ones are not.

Though I only scratched the surface of it, I learned how difficult it is to pick coffees.

I’m looking forward to seeing what today holds in store for me!!

Exciting Time Awaits🥰

watanabe — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0000

Coffee for me is a delicious, comforting drink, a great drink that connects me with someone else.

Through coffee, I’ve had many exciting encounters.
Encounters with people coming to drink coffee at our shop,
a circle of friendships forged between customers,
and encounters with colorful, exceptionally tasty coffees!

When so-called third-wave coffees started to emerge, I began to visit coffee shops and drink various coffees.
I was first surprised by how fruity coffee can be, and how different it was from the bitter drink I’d been drinking.
So this is supposed to be tasty, I wondered.
It was a mystery how coffee, the same drink, can leave such different impressions.

After I joined LATTEST, I was first drawn into latte art, how difficult it is and how fun it it.
Later, our shop started to roast beans in-house, and I would often get exhausted from the difficulty of roasting and a sense of tension. But the tastes of coffee were so rich, varying from one coffee to another.
The more I learned, the more fun it became.
I started to think that fruity coffee is also delicious.

After I got into roasting, I started to see photos of farms and producers and read about them more often.

I realized anew that so many people are involved in a single cup of coffee.

I started to get a vague desire to visit coffee farms one day and meet producers.

To know (that coffee beans are actually seeds of a fruit) and to experience (drinking fruity, colorful and delicious coffee) changed my range of taste and added to the emotional experience.

To share this touching experience with people who come to LATTEST, I chat with customers every day.

But I can’t wait to share more exciting stories and ideas with coffee drinkers after I visit farms, feel the air of a coffee origin in my own body and see coffee farms firsthand, that country’s culture, lifestyles and landscapes.

I’m very much looking forward to sharing these moments with other roasters taking part in TYPICA Lab, instead of going alone.

I’m sure TYPICA Lab will be an exciting time for me.

I’m looking forward to seeing how I will change, and how LATTEST will change, after I receive many inspirations and return from this trip.

What coffee means to us

watanabe — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0000

08-23-2022

What coffee means to us

Coffee has shaped my life in so many different ways. It has created an opportunity for me to start a business in my hometown, Kyoto, to build an amazing team of 40 globally and a community of thousands we have fostered a relationship with through our shops and online store.

What coffee means to the people who drink it and myself.

Do the producers appreciate and know the significance of what their fruit has brought us? Even if they did, it would not be enough. Let us take part in sharing our experience and gratitude. What you have produced has ultimately created us. We are the fruits of your labor.

New Beginning

watanabe — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0000

08-23-2022

New Beginning

Rather than finding a special taste,

I want to share special moments.