A perfect launch for the lunar new year

A perfect gift during the lunar new year for the modern generation of coffee drinkers. A coffee with a chinese origin! Yunnan's coffee have been in recent years known to have fertile highlands and have produced excellent coffee crops - we definitely recommend this one! 

We worked with Liat who is a Singaporean who co-owns this farm to bring in these beans direct from the farm. Liat bought the land a few years ago before the area was even growing coffees and works with the local coffee communities in areas of coffee cultivation, education and health, with the aim of improving lifelihoods of the farmers and their families. Liat sells their locally roasted beans in China and their nitro-flushed convenience brew bags in Singapore through the brand Yorz. They have come a long way since then to see the industry bloom and for their coffees now to be showcased worldwide.

Purchase it with us here.

These beans have been very well received among the roasters in London, South Korea, Canada, and Singapore and have won awards at the Australian International Coffee Awards in 2020 and 2022. These beans have been showcased on the coffee menus of Square Mile Coffee Roasters, London, IndoChina Coffee, London, Kiss the Hippo, London, and locally, Foreward Coffee Roaster, Singapore.

We found that for these beans, it can be roasted both ways and still tastes great! Choose either roast for a perfect brew.

We found that for these beans, it can be roasted both ways and still tastes great! Choose either roast for a perfect brew.

Roasted for: Filter
Body: Light
Roast level: Light-Medium
Tasting notes: Sweet acidity, strawberry jam, red wine, pink florals, red tea.

Roasted for: Espresso
Body: Light-Medium
Roast level: Medium
Tasting notes: Sweet acidity, stewed berries, red wine, red tea, cocoa nibs, almonds. 

*Espresso beans can be brewed for filter with a heavier body. Filter roast has a more tea-like body and mouthfeel. 

About the beans

Farmer: Ou Yang
Region: Pu’ er Jiangcheng
Varietal: Catimor
Process: Natural
Altitude: 900 - 1300 masl

Cherries are picked at the perfect point of ripeness. They are put to dry on raised covered beds for about three weeks to allow the seed to soak all the natural sugars in its cherry. This fermentation process draws out wildly rich flavours and aromas ranging from lychee to a strawberry jam in the beans.

About the Farmer

David Ouyang runs the Chiliarch Coffee Estate in southern Yunnan and this is the beans they call "Ou Yang", named after the farmer himself. Ou Yang sees coffee farming and the prices he can access by producing high-quality beans as a way for him to help lift the members of the local hill tribes he works with out of poverty.