Mostra Coffee

Mostra has been bringing specialty-grade Philippine coffee to market since 2015 and now calls itself the largest importer of it, a narrow origin for an entire coffee company to stake its identity on. Roast magazine named it Micro Roaster of the Year in 2020, so the roasting has kept up with the sourcing.

Filter is a daily batch and the house cold brew is slow dripped from Brazil, with the rest of the board running espresso off a Mavam, on coffee the company roasts itself. The retail bags carry what the drink board does not: the Colombia is a Caturra from Fabian Acevedo's family farm in Providencia de Geshua, up in Huila at roughly 1,750 meters, through 24 hours of oxidation, 36 hours of fermentation and about fifteen days drying on raised beds.

The room is new construction, ground-floor retail inside the 82-apartment building that went up at Normal and Harvey Milk Streets, so the shell went up with the block instead of coming out of somebody else's old lease. Nobody has been credited for the interior, which for a company this careful about its coffee is a curious thing to leave unsaid.