[CUPPING TOUR] 4 Sep, Niigata, Days Coffee Roaster: The Lot We Made Together, and All Nine Lots

This event has ended. A report on the day will follow.

We met Mr Shirai at Tokyo Coffee Festival in the winter of 2025, and two months later he was at our farm in northern Laos. Days Coffee Roaster is the kind of roaster that really does come all the way to the farm to make its own original lot. The beans we set up together, from picking through processing, arrived in Japan this summer.

Same generation, and they move fast. This time we bring the season's lots to their shop in Niigata.

Details

• Date: Friday 4 September 2026, from 18:30
• Venue: Days Coffee Roaster (NEST Meike-Shinmei 104, 3-14-4 Meike-Shinmei, Chuo-ku, Niigata)

Lots on the table

• Geisha: Natural / Honey / Lime Natural / Strawberry Natural
• Yellow Caturra: Natural / Honey
• Typica: Washed / Natural
• Catimor: Anaerobic Natural

And of course the lot we made together. What we were thinking on the farm when we chose this processing: we hope to tell it from both the maker's side and the roaster's.

Continue reading

For the steps we worked through together see The four stages of fermentation and Managing fermentation by numbers. For numbers per lot, What is the Data Bank. Also on the same tour: 1 Sep Nagoya and 2 Sep Matsumoto.