Cascara
Your palate is learnable. Every cup you drink here teaches the algorithm that picks the next one.
100 personal lockers. 30 corporate. Founding members get the first pick.
What Cascara is
The Cellar
Private lockers. Curated beans. A 4-tier rotating menu tied to terroir.
BGC, 2027
The Palate
Eight minutes of questions. A palate signature we use to pick every cup you drink.
App, 2026
The Drop
One bag every month, delivered. We pick it for your palate. First bag free.
App, 2026
The algorithm
Specialty coffee discovery is broken.
You walk into a cafe. You scan a menu of tasting notes written by roasters, for roasters. You guess. Half the time you get a cup you don’t love.
Cascara fixes that.
We built a palate-intelligence system that learns what your mouth actually wants. Four affinity scores — Clean, Classic, Fluid, Experimental — that evolve with every cup you rate.
The cellar is where the model trains in the wild. The app is how it reaches you before you walk in.
The Terroir Spectrum
Every bean we stock maps to one of four corners of the Spectrum.
Clean
Bright, floral, tea-like
e.g. Washed Ethiopian, Kenyan AA
Classic
Balanced, chocolatey, familiar
e.g. Washed Colombian
Fluid
Juicy, fruit-forward, honey
e.g. Natural Ethiopian, Honey-process
Experimental
Funky, fermented, unconventional
e.g. Anaerobic, Co-ferment
Our walk-in menu rotates monthly. Four tiers — Standard ₱350, Reserve ₱600, Limited ₱900, Cascara Lot at transparent cost — one from each corner, every month.
Membership
Personal locker
₱5,000/mo
Corporate Base
₱25,000/mo
Corporate Premium
₱50,000/mo
Corporate caps at 30 accounts (Premium counts within the 30).
Reservations open now. Full monthly rate prepaid from the month you book locks your slot through build-out. Locker use begins the month we open doors.
Reserve a locker →Online reservation live when payments open (Q3 2026).
The Roaster Drop
While the cellar is being built, the app is already working.
₱500 / month. We pick one bag each month — 150g for local partner lots, 100g for imported “origin spotlight” lots — shipped to your door, matched to your palate.
First bag free. Cancel any time.
Who’s building this
Gil Erez
Founder & CEO
Chief Strategy Officer at Silver Lining LTD, SaaS for banks in financial inclusion — customers include Wells Fargo and Nedbank South Africa. Based in Manila.
Cascara is an answer to a personal obsession: that specialty coffee discovery is broken, that palate is learnable, and that the Philippines is the right place to build the proof.
Questions
Join the waitlist.
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