Barako, Liberica, and Excelsa coffee beans from Cuenca Batangas and my first home coffee cupping trial

Barako coffee is not a favorite. I associate it with sourness which I do not prefer in coffee. Hence, I have not tasted one in years. However, two weeks ago we went to Cuenca, Batangas at the invitation of my cousin. Whenever I would visit a town outside of Metro Manila I like to drop…

Trying out the Aeroprecipe app

So, one of the folks at Coffee Home Brewers shared this app called Aeroprecipe and I downloaded it. I looked it up – it is also a website collecting various ways to use the Aeropress!

Casualty of lockdown: vocal muscle and jaw strength decline

Last week I had my oral prophylaxis. It was a routine dental cleaning, but I hadn’t gone in over 18 months because of the lockdown. Two reasons I am writing about it: The first question the dentist asked me: do you drink a lot of coffee? Ha ha! Yeah my teeth were stained because of…