Philocoffea was founded by co-founder Tetsuka Kaji and Masami Kaji. Tetsu Kasutani is the first Asian to win the World Coffee Brewing Championship. Tetsu Megu selects and purchases green coffee beans, creates roasting profiles, and controls quality. He understands the taste of black coffee better than anyone.
Taste is subjective, so there is no right or wrong. However, Philocoffea believes that cleanliness is the key to creating complex flavors, pleasant acidity and a long-lasting sweet finish in specialty coffee. As a result, Philocoffea has a "clean" character throughout, from light roasts to dark roasts, and provides a pleasant and long-lasting aftertaste.
Specialty coffee as defined by Philocoffea must meet four key criteria: location, cultivation, hand-picking and sustainability. This means you can trace your coffee directly back to the farm where the beans were grown. Their extraction process is handled with the utmost care and sustainability. So when Tetsu Kasutani discovers a coffee he believes in, he buys it directly from the farm. Having seen firsthand how they work and live, he values relationships built on trust. After interacting with locals and experiencing their culture first-hand, Tetsu Kasutani was inspired to sell their coffee.
The Philocoffea store is equipped with the best Loring roasters in the world. It is also a roasting station and sacred laboratory for exploring new and unique ways of coffee beans. Tetsu Kasutani creates and manages all roasting configurations himself. When new green coffee beans arrive, Tetsu's expertise iteratively hypothesizes, tests, and develops roasting configurations to create the best possible product.
