PHILIPPINE COFFEE BOARD HOLDS 5TH ANNUAL COFFEE BREAK FESTIVAL
The Philippine Coffee Board (PCB) in cooperation with Ayala Center and Makati Business Club will host the 5th Coffee Break Festival 2006 on October 2-15, 2006 at the ground floor of the Glorietta 4 in Ayala Center, Makati City. Entitled “Coffee & Conversation”, this festival will showcase coffee merchants from all over the Philippines and highlight the best Philippine coffees.

Nicholas Matti, Co-Chair of the Philippine Coffee Board said, “The 5th Annual Coffee Break Festival presents a great opportunity to promote Philippine coffee and a good venue for coffee growers and millers to come together and interact with our consumers.” He adds, “This year’s Coffee Break Festival also aims to show that coffee is best over good conversation”.

Visitors can taste free coffee samples from Batangas Harvest Coffee, Boyd’s Coffee, Café Amadeo, Café Barako de Lipa, Coffee Dream, Cordillera Coffee, Dunkin Donut, Figaro Coffee, Gourmet’s Coffee, Mocha Blends, Monk’s Blend, Montanosa Coffee and Siete Baracos Coffee.

Other highlights of this festival include live performances by Jacqui Magno, Julia Duncan, Dawn and other famous jazz and bossa nova artists, the Sustainable Coffee Farming course which will cover field preparation, planting, and coffee tree care in a sustainable, organic farming context and the Coffee 101 course that will show the basics of coffee, kinds of beans, roasting and grinding, coffee-making equipment, how to brew the perfect cup of coffee, and factors affecting coffee quality. For more information on these courses, please call the Philippine Coffee Board Secretariat at 751-1137.

This year’s Coffee Break 2006 sponsors are Coffee-Mate, Nescafe, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Equal, Filtra Furniture, Y&R Philippines, Globequest, HSBC and radio station, Crossover 101.5.

The Coffee Break Festival is the biggest annual event organized by the Philippine Coffee Board (formerly National Coffee Development Board) whose objective is to encourage coffee drinkers to drink Philippine coffee and show where coffee is grown.

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COFFEE SEMINARS BY PHILIPPINE COFFEE BOARD ARE BACK
The Philippine Coffee Board announces that the much-awaited Coffee 101 and Sustainable Coffee Farming courses will be held next month.

Coffee 101 will be held at the Home Buddies section, fourth floor of Glorietta 4, Ayala Center, Makati City on October 13 at 2:00 to 5:00 by Robert Francisco, President & CEO of Boyd Coffee Company (Phils) Inc.

This course will demonstrate the intricacies of brewing coffee – from roasting to grinding, how to make the perfect cup of coffee, factors affecting coffee quality, to the proper use of coffee equipment.

The Sustainable Coffee Farming course will cover field preparation, planting, and coffee tree care in a sustainable, organic farming context. Course facilitator is Joel Lumagbas, Assistant Vice President, Agricultural Services Department of Nestle Philippines, Inc.

For more information on these courses, fees and registration, please call the Philippine Coffee Board Secretariat at 751-1137.

The Philippine Coffee Board is a private sector-led group established in May 2002 as the National Coffee Development Board. The goal of the Coffee Board is to develop and promote the Philippine coffee industry through technical assistance and credit programs for coffee farms; and through marketing and promotions of coffee for domestic and export markets.