Kurasu, Kyoto: Start of my tryst with Specialty Coffee
Japanese Minimalism in every inch of design
Getting ready for a nice weekend and can’t think of anything better than this!
Kurasu comes from the Japanese word “to live” or “lifestyle.” Starting from a small online homeware shop back in 2013, they now run physical and online shops to deliver quality specialty coffee roasted in Nishijin Roastery and Japanese brewing equipment to the world.
Kurasu provides high-quality coffee from Kyoto and advocates for Japanese coffee culture, coffee community, and homebrew.
Founded by Yozo Otsuki, who quit job as at a reputed Investment Bank, Kurasu wanted not just to be a provider of Japanese coffee equipment, but to focus on the education of the Japanese way of home brew, the Japanese coffee culture and the art of coffee itself.
With the third wave coffee movement taking the world by storm, they saw how it was rooted from the Japanese coffee scene. The craft, care, and mentality the Japanese put into coffee parallel no other.
Kurasu opened its first overseas shop in Singapore in July 2017, partnering with co-working space The Company in Odeon Towers. I visited this place back in January 2019 and my myths about Japan being a Tea drinking nation got busted there. When Japanese get to anything special, it better be 100%+ They shifted the flagship store to 261 Waterloo Street recently, which I visited last month.
Kurasu, Sinagpore serves the same line up of coffees as Kyoto, Japan.
My Coffee Experience: Honduras Claudia Murcia (Light Roast), which is COE – Cup of Excellence Winner and is indeed a Limited Edition of Beans.
· Country: Honduras
· Region: El Buen Sambador, Las Penitas, Santa Barbara
· Process: Honey
· Variety : Parainema
· Altitude : 1450 masl
· Flavour Notes: Orange, Lemon, Tamarind, Grape, Sparkling Wine, Green Tea
All smiles in my happy coffee space: 2022
Kurasu in 2019
2019 Wall
Super focused Kurasu Barista in 2019
Fast Forward to 2022
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