brewed coffee

a beauty of being in the highlands is having great access to coffee, not the instant kind but the freshly picked, roasted and ground beans.. i always buy my coffee in Garcia's Pure Coffee at the baguio public market, the friendly lady at the counter (manang to me) is expert at her beans i say, have been in the business for long they were one of the originals in the market. you can also buy brown sugar or muscovado from them, which is the perfect sweetener for that freshly brewed cup. Garcia's  brew good coffee is an institution for Baguio settlers. Manang confirmed even that a well known uber expensive coffee shop buy beans from them! why? because our home grown arabica beans taste way better than their imported ones! reminding me not to spend my money on that coffeeshop again, i can make my own cup of brew at the comfort of my home

..my sister now based in South Korea brought with her kilos of coffee as pasalubong and how her in-laws loved it! now she misses them!! one of the things she misses about Baguio.

indonesia also has great coffee selections, me and hubby always look forward to a bag or two of their brews whenever my sis-in-law comes home for a visit.. here is a variety which is a mix of arabica and robusta varieties, from Singa Coffee.. tastes so good i can have two full cups for the day and not be jittery..good cup of brew.. :)

afternoon coffee..

made a visit to my hubby's office last week for a change, the kids paid a visit to their grandparents' house thus had the afternoon off from them..while hubby was clicking away at work, i was trying to finish off a paperwork that needed to be given elsewhere. Then 'twas coffee break, nice time for a hot cup of coffee..hmmm..so where might there be a good one? then he remembered of a coffee brand that was inside the university marketing center. So we walked over and lo and behold! it was the Rocky Mountain Cafe that i was reading all about in the news! for a coffee lover like me, it was a happy moment! so there i was all eager to have a cup of their brew, and another cup of latte, wouldn't want to miss the flavor! funny thing he never mentioned that they had set up shop inside the university. When i asked the crew since when they started, they said January of this year.. oh my here i am so excited about a coffee find when it was right under my nose all these days..oh well, i say better be late than never to have tasted such a good and fresh brew!