Sinister Cascara “Tea”
Now Available at the Saturday PSU Farmers Market
Typically a compostable bi-product of the coffee cultivation process, cascara the lesser known part of the coffee plant, makes for a truly outstanding beverage! At Sinister Coffee and Creamery we are excited to offer this unique drink as our slow brewed “tea” option!
What is Cascara
Cascara, the fruit of the coffee plant, is typically considered a disposable or compostable by-product of the coffee bean cultivation process. Ironically coffee farmers have saved the Cascara cherries to make caffeinated drink infusions for years, in fact centuries for some in Yemen and Ethiopia. So while making Cascara beverages may predate coffee beverages, it is not as well known worldwide as coffee and presents a very different caffeine and flavor experience. Known as coffee cherry tea, cascara is neither tea nor coffee.
How Cascara is Made
Cascara roughly translates to husk or skin, and is sun-dried before shipping and storing for future use as a brewed beverage. Cascara falls somewhere between coffee and tea in the drink world. With deeper dark fruit flavors and less caffeine than coffee, this drink doesn’t fit into other categories such as tea or tisanes particularly either. Needless to say, this drink is worth you trying!
Buy Cascara Coffee Tea
At Sinister Coffee and Creamery, we start with organic Cascara cherries that we use to make cold brew infusions for our customers! We sell our Cascara “Tea” over ice or as a Nitro beverage for onsite consumption at the Portland Farmers Market at PSU campus. Watch the video of us making a Nitro Cascara beverage and come check us out Saturdays on the PSU campus park blocks in downtown Portland Oregon!