Philippine Coffee Board
Philippine Coffee Board Holds 5th Annual
Coffee Break festival

25 September 2006 - The Philippine Coffee Board, in cooperation with Ayala Center and the 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, which 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 the courses, please call the Philippine Coffee Board Secretariat at 751-1137.

This year’s Coffee Break Festival 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 the National Coffee Development Board), whose objective is to encourage coffee drinkers to drink Philippine coffee and show where coffee is grown.