Coffee,
calibrated.
Five minutes. Eleven questions. Your palate at the end — free, no commitment. Every cup you log teaches the algorithm what your mouth actually wants.
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Every bean we stock leans toward one of four corners. Our walk-in menu rotates monthly — four tiers, Standard, Reserve, Limited, and Cascara Lot at transparent cost — one from each corner, every month. Every brew you log recalibrates your profile; the cellar learns what you taste, not what you browse.
The Cellar
Private lockers. Picked beans. A 4-tier rotating menu tied to process.
BGC, 2027
The Palate
Five minutes of questions. A Cellar Identity we use to suggest what you might like to drink.
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The Drop
At least one bag every month, delivered. We pick it for your palate.
Q3 2026
Specialty coffee discovery is broken.
You walk into a cafe. You scan a menu of tasting notes written by roasters, for roasters. You guess. Half the time you get a cup you don’t love.
Cascara fixes that.
We built a palate-intelligence system that learns what your mouth actually wants. Four affinity scores — Clean, Classic, Fluid, Experimental — that evolve with every cup you rate.
The cellar is where the model trains in the wild. The web app is how it reaches you before you walk in.
Origin · UnsplashWhile the cellar is being built, the web app is already working.
One bag every month, shipped to your door, matched to your palate. Sign up by the 25th for the next month’s drop. Cancel any time.
Subscriptions open Q3 2026. Calibrate now — your palate is what we use to pick your first bag.
Gil Erez
Founder & CEO
Gil has spent 15 years across Europe and Asia building SaaS fintech platforms and the teams behind them. Most recently Chief Strategy Officer at Silver Lining, overseeing company operations and Silver Lining Capital, a small-business loan fund.
Here’s the theory: specialty coffee discovery is broken, palate is learnable, and the Philippines is the right place to build the proof. Gil brings the operating discipline of a bootstrapped SaaS company, the capital-allocation instincts of a fund manager, and a handful of years of specialty-coffee practice at home — which is exactly why he needed Cascara. He wanted to sharpen his palate, but couldn’t say much more than “I like it” or “I don’t.” He knew he wasn’t alone. Cascara is both the question and the answer, with good coffee on the table while everyone works it out.
Newer to specialty? Read our guide to specialty coffee in the Philippines.
A specialty coffee cellar with a palate-intelligence algorithm.
Cascara is a Philippine specialty coffee company building two things in parallel. The first is a free web platform that learns what your mouth wants from coffee — eleven questions, five minutes, then a Cellar Identity that gets sharper every time you log a brew. The second, opening Q3 2026, is the Drop: a monthly specialty coffee subscription where each member’s bag is matched to their palate by an algorithm rather than picked by a curator-of-the-month.
We organize every coffee in the cellar against a four-corner framework called the Process Spectrum — Clean, Classic, Fluid, and Experimental — that captures how a coffee actually tastes more reliably than country, altitude, or varietal alone. The framework is built around processing, the biggest variable in how a cup tastes after terroir, and it’s what makes the palate model possible: once we know which corner your palate lives in, we can shortlist beans across hundreds of Philippine and international roasters in seconds.
For drinkers in Manila, the web app is a discovery tool — a curator-verified directory of specialty coffee roasters across Metro Manila, filterable by the palate corner each one tends toward. For drinkers across the Philippines, the directory extends to Baguio, Cebu, Davao, Cagayan de Oro, and beyond — see the full guide to specialty coffee in the Philippines. For people who want one good bag a month, calibrating now means you’re ready for the Cascara Drop the moment subscriptions open.
The whole system runs on tasting notes — but we don’t expect you to bring vocabulary to it. Most of the eleven calibration questions are about preferences you already have in wine, chocolate, fruit, and savory food, and the model translates those into coffee-specific palate axes. If you want to learn how tasting notes actually work, the guide is there. If you don’t, take the quiz and let the model do the work.
Cascara is independent and Philippine-built. The full editorial guide library is free to read.
Find your palate.
Five minutes, eleven questions. Free, no commitment. Your palate is yours from the moment you finish.
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