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The State of Philippine Specialty Coffee 2026

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Gil Erez · Cascara Editorial

· 8 min read

Nobody measures the Philippine specialty coffee market. Cascara does — bean by bean, in the cellar. This report reads the catalog as of October 2026: 191 contributing roasters, 3,458 verified beans, 34 origin countries. Of those, 1088 beans are sold by the 91 Philippine roasters in the catalog — the shelf this report is about. On that shelf the market has already made its choices. Natural process outnumbers washed. One bean in four is fermented. And the largest single origin is the Philippines itself.

Beans tracked

3,458

Jun: 1,598Jul: 2,115Aug: 2,289Sep: 3,111Oct: 3,458

Verified and listed in the cellar+347 since Sep

Roasters

191

91 Philippine · 100 international+5 since Sep

Origins

34

Jun: 36Jul: 34Aug: 34Sep: 34Oct: 34

Countries of origin in the catalogheld since Jul

Stocked, Philippine shelves

1,088

Live beans from Philippine roasters — the series this report trends

Buyable today

515

Listed and re-checked within 45 days · 47.3% of stocked

Philippines, of buyable

35.07%

32% of stocked · the largest origin either way

5 readings. The shape holds.

The catalog has been read 5 times since June. The counts climb because the cellar keeps ingesting lineups; the shares barely move. On Philippine shelves the same origin has led every reading, the same three processes hold the same order, and gesha sits at roughly one cultivar-named bean in five each time.

Verified beans

3,458

Jun: 1,598Jul: 2,115Aug: 2,289Sep: 3,111Oct: 3,458
JunOct

+1,860 since Jun · 5 readings

Beans on Philippine roasters' shelves

1,088

Jun: 626Jul: 792Aug: 819Sep: 956Oct: 1,088
JunOct

+462 since Jun · 5 readings

Philippine shelves, reading by reading

MeasureJulAugSepOctNet
Philippines, share of origin-stated beans33.8%33%31.5%32%−1.8pp
Natural process38.3%38.6%38.4%38.5%+0.2pp
Washed process29.1%29.1%28.5%27.7%−1.4pp
Anaerobic or fermented24.4%24.4%25%26.2%+1.8pp
Gesha, of beans naming a cultivar18.8%18.4%18.6%17.9%−0.9pp
Buyable today, of stockedlisted and checked within 45 days––48.7%47.3%–
Philippine roasters with a live bean84868991+7
Philippine-grown lots238241269312+74

4 readings use the current method. June measured the whole catalog and is not comparable. Each column above is one comparable reading.

Process mix, each reading

JulJuly 2026 · Natural: 248 beans, 38.3%July 2026 · Washed: 188 beans, 29.1%July 2026 · Ferment-forward: 158 beans, 24.4%July 2026 · Honey: 39 beans, 6%July 2026 · Decaf: 14 beans, 2.2%
AugAugust 2026 · Natural: 260 beans, 38.6%August 2026 · Washed: 196 beans, 29.1%August 2026 · Ferment-forward: 164 beans, 24.4%August 2026 · Honey: 39 beans, 5.8%August 2026 · Decaf: 14 beans, 2.1%
SepSeptember 2026 · Natural: 306 beans, 38.4%September 2026 · Washed: 227 beans, 28.5%September 2026 · Ferment-forward: 199 beans, 25%September 2026 · Honey: 46 beans, 5.8%September 2026 · Decaf: 18 beans, 2.3%
OctOctober 2026 · Natural: 349 beans, 38.5%October 2026 · Washed: 251 beans, 27.7%October 2026 · Ferment-forward: 237 beans, 26.2%October 2026 · Honey: 51 beans, 5.6%October 2026 · Decaf: 18 beans, 2%
Natural 38.5%Washed 27.7%Ferment-forward 26.2%Honey 5.6%Decaf 2%

Shares of beans that state a process. Similar bars show how little the process mix changed across readings.

Origin rank on Philippine shelves

1Philippines313held
2Ethiopia191held
3Colombia148held
4Panama82held
5Brazil52held
6Indonesia32held
7Kenya26held
8Costa Rica18held

Bars are the October 2026 count. The last column reads the rank across all 4 readings; hover for each.

Gesha, who holds it

One roaster: 42 of 124 gesha lots, 33.9%Next two: 32 of 124 gesha lots, 25.8%28 others: 50 of 124 gesha lots, 40.3%
One roaster 42 · 33.9%Next two 32 · 25.8%28 others 50 · 40.3%
Roasters carrying any gesha31 of 78

The headline share is a shelf a few roasters built. The median Philippine roaster sells no gesha at all. Aggregate only; no roaster is named.

Natural has overtaken washed.

The defining fact of this market: washed coffee — the historical default of specialty — is now the second process on Philippine shelves. Of the beans Philippine roasters sell, 38.5% are natural, 27.7% washed, and 26.2% anaerobic or otherwise fermented. Natural and fermented together account for 64.7% of that shelf.

Read across Cascara's entire catalog — which is majority roasters based abroad — the order reverses and washed leads at 36.4%. That is a fact about the catalog, not about this market. Earlier editions of this report published the catalog figure under a Philippine headline; see revisions.

Philippine roasters' shelves

Natural349 · 38.5%
Washed251 · 27.7%
Ferment-forward237 · 26.2%
Honey51 · 5.6%
Decaf18 · 2%

Beans whose roaster publishes no process at all are excluded from these shares rather than guessed at — a transparency gap, not a category.

The roaster landscape

The catalog tracks 191 roasters with at least one live bean, across 28 countries. 91 are Philippine — 47.6% of the field — and they account for 1088 of the 3,555 live beans. The other 100 roast abroad and reach Philippine drinkers through importers, cafes, and direct shipping. Japan sends more roasters into this market than any other country.

Philippine vs international roasters91 : 100
Japan15
United States10
Hong Kong8
Australia7
China7
South Korea6
Thailand5
United Kingdom5
Indonesia4
Sweden4
France3
Singapore3
Taiwan3
Vietnam3
Canada2
Malaysia2
Netherlands2
Norway2
United Arab Emirates2
Denmark1
India1
Ireland1
Italy1
Mexico1
South Africa1

What each process does to the cup, measured.

Every bean in the cellar carries a sensory profile on four axes — acidity, body, sweetness, and funk — scored 0 to 1. Averaged across 3,458 beans, the axes show what the process labels actually mean in the cup. Washed coffee runs bright and light: the highest acidity of any process and the lowest funk, at 0.13. Anaerobic and fermented lots sit at 0.75 — a sixfold gap on the same scale. Natural is where the market's sweetness lives: 0.92, the highest of any process.

ACIDITY1.0BODY1.0SWEETNESS1.0FUNK1.0Anaerobic / fermented (n = 716)Anaerobic / fermented · Acidity: 0.77 (n = 716)Anaerobic / fermented · Body: 0.66 (n = 716)Anaerobic / fermented · Sweetness: 0.85 (n = 716)Anaerobic / fermented · Funk: 0.75 (n = 716)ANAEROBIC / FERMENTED · 0.75Honey (n = 194)Honey · Acidity: 0.76 (n = 194)Honey · Body: 0.61 (n = 194)Honey · Sweetness: 0.89 (n = 194)Honey · Funk: 0.30 (n = 194)HONEY · 0.30Washed (n = 1172)Washed · Acidity: 0.87 (n = 1172)Washed · Body: 0.48 (n = 1172)Washed · Sweetness: 0.69 (n = 1172)Washed · Funk: 0.13 (n = 1172)WASHED · 0.13Natural (n = 1035)Natural · Acidity: 0.66 (n = 1035)Natural · Body: 0.72 (n = 1035)Natural · Sweetness: 0.92 (n = 1035)Natural · Funk: 0.27 (n = 1035)NATURAL · 0.27

Each line is one process family across the four axes, 0 to 1. The label carries the funk value, where the families separate most. Hover any point for the figure and the count behind it.

Anaerobic / fermentedn = 716
Acidity0.77
Body0.66
Sweetness0.85
Funk0.75
Honeyn = 194
Acidity0.76
Body0.61
Sweetness0.89
Funk0.30
Washedn = 1172
Acidity0.87
Body0.48
Sweetness0.69
Funk0.13
Naturaln = 1035
Acidity0.66
Body0.72
Sweetness0.92
Funk0.27

Where the beans come from

Across Cascara's whole catalog, 2,984 beans are imported single origins drawn from 34 countries. Colombia and Ethiopia lead, as they do in most specialty markets, and Panama sits third with 542 beans, 454 of them gesha.

That ranking describes the catalog, not this market. Narrow it to what Philippine roasters actually stock and the shape changes: the Philippines is the largest origin at 32%, ahead of Ethiopia and Colombia.

Colombia677 · 19.6%
Ethiopia648 · 18.7%
Panama542 · 15.7%
Philippines313 · 9.1%
Kenya167 · 4.8%
Brazil132 · 3.8%
Peru126 · 3.6%
Indonesia97 · 2.8%
Ecuador87 · 2.5%
Costa Rica79 · 2.3%
Guatemala63 · 1.8%

Catalog-wide, blends account for a further 212 beans and 46 list no origin; both are excluded from origin shares rather than bucketed.

The largest origin on Philippine shelves is home.

313 of the 977 beans Philippine roasters sell that state a country were grown here — 32%, the largest single origin, ahead of every import. Across Cascara's full catalog the same 313 lots read as just 9.5% and rank 4th, because two thirds of that catalog is shelves abroad that stock no Philippine coffee at all. Both numbers are true. Only one of them is about this market.

The local lots follow the wider tilt: natural process leads (120 of 312), with washed and fermented behind it.

On the Process Spectrum, Philippine-grown coffee is Fluid-dominant: 156 of 312 lots, 50%, against 39.4% across the catalog. The Clean corner is the smallest at 44 lots; the washed, high-grown clarity that wins the national quality competitions is still the exception, not the rule.

The market on the Process Spectrum

Cascara reads every coffee against a four-corner Process Spectrum and assigns each bean one identity. Across the catalog, Fluid is the largest corner at 39.4%, with Clean behind it. For a market this young the spread is the story — no single corner owns it, and Experimental is already comparable to Classic.

Philippine shelves

Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Clean: 203 beans, 18.7%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Classic: 185 beans, 17%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Fluid: 467 beans, 42.9%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%Experimental: 233 beans, 21.4%
Clean 19%Classic 17%Fluid 43%Experimental 21%

Whole catalog

Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Clean: 1,051 beans, 29.6%Classic: 392 beans, 11%Classic: 392 beans, 11%Classic: 392 beans, 11%Classic: 392 beans, 11%Classic: 392 beans, 11%Classic: 392 beans, 11%Classic: 392 beans, 11%Classic: 392 beans, 11%Classic: 392 beans, 11%Classic: 392 beans, 11%Classic: 392 beans, 11%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Fluid: 1,400 beans, 39.4%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%Experimental: 712 beans, 20%
Clean 30%Classic 11%Fluid 39%Experimental 20%
Clean
1051 · 29.6%

Clarity, bright acidity, clean finish.

Classic
392 · 11%

Warmth, body, ripe fruit.

Fluid
1400 · 39.4%

Balance, range, adapts to context.

Experimental
712 · 20%

Edge, ferment, wine notes.

October 2026 · what changed

What moved since September 2026.

Between the September 2026 and October 2026 readings the cellar ingested 347 more verified beans, 132 of them on Philippine roasters' shelves. Most of what follows is that growth in coverage. The shape of the market barely moved, which is itself the finding.

Coverage

Verified beans3,111 → 3,458+347
Beans on Philippine roasters' shelves956 → 1,088+132
Philippine roasters89 → 91+2
Philippine-grown lots269 → 312+43

Philippine roasters' shelves

Philippines as share of origin-stated beans31.5% → 32%
Natural process38.4% → 38.5%
Washed process28.5% → 27.7%
Ferment-forward process25% → 26.2%
Gesha, of beans that name a cultivar18.6% → 17.9%
Most-used tasting wordhoney → caramel
Origins that added the most beansPhilippines +43 · Ethiopia +19 · Colombia +14

Philippine-grown coffee stays Fluid-dominant at 50% of 312 lots. Shares are over beans that state the measure; a bean with no stated process or origin is excluded, not guessed. Coverage, not market movement: read a one-point swing as the cellar seeing more of the shelf.

This report is updated, not replaced.

Every edition stays published. When a figure changes, the change is recorded here with the reason — including when we get something wrong. The catalog grows as roasters' lineups are ingested, so a number moving between editions usually means the cellar is seeing more of the market, not that the market shifted.

Editions

October 20263,458 verified beansCurrent
September 20263,111 verified beansArchived
August 20262,289 verified beansArchived
July 20262,115 verified beansArchived
June 20261,598 verified beansArchived

Change since September 2026

Beans tracked (visible, verified)3,111 → 3,458
Beans from Philippine roasters956 → 1,088
Contributing roasters186 → 191

Coverage, not market movement. Measures whose definition changed between editions are deliberately not shown as a trend.

Revisions

  1. 2026-10-14

    October 2026 edition

    Refreshed from the October 2026 snapshot: 3,458 verified beans across 191 contributing roasters (was 3,111). Catalogue growth from ingestion, same methodology.

  2. 2026-09-19

    Shelf reported two ways: stocked and buyable

    The shelf figures count live beans: active, listed at some point, not retired. A reader can only buy the ones marked listed, and a listed bean also has to have been re-checked within 45 days of the snapshot to count as buyable. Roasters read from their shop every two days pass automatically; hand-typed and manually entered lineups age out until someone re-confirms them. Both readings now appear side by side. Nothing in the stocked series changed.

  3. 2026-08-01

    August 2026 edition

    Refreshed from the August 2026 snapshot: 2,289 verified beans across 155 contributing roasters (was 2,115). Catalogue growth from ingestion, same methodology.

  4. 2026-07-23

    Rescoped to Philippine roasters; catalogue refreshed

    The June edition computed its market figures over Cascara's entire catalogue, 63% of which is stocked by roasters outside the Philippines. It therefore reported the Philippines as the fourth-largest origin at 11%. Measured against what Philippine roasters actually sell, the Philippines is the LARGEST origin, at 33.8%. Origin, process, variety and flavour figures are now scoped to Philippine roasters, with catalogue-wide figures kept and labelled as such. Catalogue coverage also grew from 1,598 to 2,115 verified beans.

  5. 2026-07-23

    Flavour-cluster matching corrected

    Cascara's sensory taxonomy matched flavour keywords by substring, so 'pea' matched 'peach' and 'pear' and eight similar collisions fired the wrong categories. Word-boundary matching shipped as Sensory Derivation v6.3.0. The vegetal cluster in particular was overstated roughly sixfold. All flavour figures in this edition use the corrected taxonomy.

  6. 2026-06-11

    First edition published

    1,598 verified beans from 200 roaster records, snapshotted June 2026.

Methodology

All figures are aggregated from the Cascara catalog — 191 contributing roasters and 3,458 verified beans, snapshotted October 2026. Only verified beans are counted; pending submissions and retired lots are excluded. A roaster counts once it has at least one live bean, which is why the roaster figure is lower than the number of records in the catalog.

Figures described as this market are scoped to the 1088 beans sold by Philippine roasters. That is the stocked shelf: live beans, listed at some point, not retired. Beside it the report shows the buyable shelf — beans marked listed and re-checked within 45 days. Roasters read from their own shop every two days pass that test automatically; hand-entered lineups age out until someone re-confirms them. The stocked series is the one trended across editions. Figures described as the catalog cover all 3,555 live beans, including the 100 roasters based abroad whose coffee reaches Philippine drinkers. The two are different populations and are never mixed; where both are interesting, both are shown.

Process labels are taken from each roaster's own published description and grouped into five families; beans with no stated process are reported as unspecified, not guessed. Sensory axes and identity classifications follow the cellar's standard reading of each bean — the same profile members brew against. Origin reflects the green coffee's country of growth, not where it was roasted.

This report reads the supply side — what roasters sell. Its sibling, What Filipino coffee drinkers are drinking, reads the demand side from the brew log: what members actually brew, and whether the bag's tasting notes hold up in the cup.

Cite freely with attribution and a link to this page. For the underlying aggregates or questions about the data, write to the cellar.

3,458 beans. Four corners. One is yours.

This report describes the market. Calibration describes you — five questions, and the cellar reads your palate against the same spectrum every bean above is measured on.

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Common questions

How many specialty coffee roasters are there in the Philippines?

The Cascara catalog tracks 91 Philippine specialty roasters with at least one live bean as of October 2026, alongside 100 international roasters whose beans circulate here. This is a catalog count, not a census — it covers roasters whose lineups are listed and verified in the cellar.

What is the most common coffee process in the Philippines?

Natural. Of the beans Philippine roasters sell, 38.5% are natural process against 27.7% washed, and 26.2% are anaerobic or otherwise fermented. Natural and fermented together account for most of what is on Philippine shelves — washed coffee is no longer the default here. Across Cascara's whole catalog, which includes roasters abroad, washed still leads.

Where do the beans in the Philippine market come from?

On Philippine roasters' shelves the Philippines itself is the largest origin — 313 of the 977 beans that state a country, 32%. Ethiopia, Colombia, Panama follow. Measured across Cascara's entire catalog, which is majority non-Philippine roasters, the ranking is different: Colombia and Ethiopia lead and the Philippines places 4th. The distinction matters, and earlier editions of this report conflated the two.

How much Philippine-grown coffee is in the specialty market?

32% of what Philippine roasters sell is grown in the Philippines — 313 lots. Across Cascara's full catalog, including roasters abroad who stock no Philippine coffee at all, the same 313 lots are 9.5%. Local lots lean natural process, and more of them read Fluid — balance and range — than any other corner of the Process Spectrum.

What are the four coffee identities?

Cascara reads every coffee against a four-corner Process Spectrum. Clean: clarity, bright acidity, a clean finish. Classic: warmth, body, ripe fruit. Fluid: balance and range. Experimental: edge, ferment, wine notes. Every bean in the catalog carries one.

Where does this data come from?

All figures are aggregated from the Cascara catalog: 191 contributing roasters and 3,458 verified beans, snapshotted October 2026. Pending or unverified submissions are excluded. Figures about the Philippine market are scoped to beans sold by Philippine roasters; catalog-wide figures are labelled as such. Every past edition and every correction is published on this page.

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Author · Gil Erez, Founder of Cascara · Published 11 June 2026 · Updated 14 October 2026