Enjoy the Summer with Everyday Coffee Roasters x BPI

Pay using your BPI Online account when you shop on the Everyday Coffee PH website to get Php 100 off.

Promo Highlights

Get Php 100 discount when you shop on the Everyday Coffee PH website.

Promo Mechanics

1. The promo is exclusive to all BPI account holders* who are enrolled in BPI Online.
2. On the Everyday Coffee website, BPI account holders must shop a minimum of Php 1,000 and pay using their BPI Online account from April 18 to May 31, 2022 (11:59 PM Philippine Standard Time.).
3. The Php 100 discount is applied when you enter the promo code BPISummer2022 upon checkout and when BPI Online is selected as a payment option.
4. The discount can be availed multiple times during the promo period.
5. A BPI account holder can only receive the bonus credits once during the promo.
6. Promo prizes are non-transferable, non-cumulative, cannot be exchanged for cash or other products, and cannot be used in conjunction with any other discounts, promotions, or fixed price items, unless otherwise provided.

Sagada Arabica Coffee

Arabica coffee was introduced to Sagada in the late 1900s as the locals didn’t have much prior contact with the Spanish government not until the late 1850s. The coffee trees then said were spread to the northern areas by a Japanese immigrant who worked for the American missionaries in the village of Fidelisan.

Today, it is still rare to find Sagada arabica. Most of its production is only in the municipalities of Besao and Sagada in the Mount Province, mainly in the backyard and small-scale farms of the Sagada natives since the early 1900s, with some of its beans coming from century-old coffee trees.

AeroPress Coffee Maker

The Aeropress Coffee Maker gives you a great cup of coffee with every single brew. It utilizes total immersion and gentle pressure to produce a thick and luscious mixture that awakens. Each serving of coffee made with the Aeropress Coffee Maker provides you with a concentrated blend that you can take as is or add water, sugar, cream, or creamer – all according to your taste.

Halo Hartume is a community near Gedeb and Kochere, two coffee-famous districts in Ethiopia’s coveted Gedeo Zone. Gedeo, named after the Gedeo people indigenous to the area, is a narrow section of highland plateau dense with savvy farmers and fiercely competitive processors whose coffee is known the world over as “Yirgacheffe” after the zone’s most famous district and central town.

For decades, Yirgacheffe has been considered a benchmark for beauty and complexity in arabica coffee, known for being jasmine-like when thoroughly washed and punchy and sweet when sundried.

This coffee from a family-run independent washing station in Halo Hartume is no exception. It’s big and sweet, with layers of grapefruit and lavender-like floral tones. For its first few years, the station sold coffee the way most producers in the area did: through the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX), where government cuppers would grade and position the coffee for sale to exporters.

Today, Daniel Mijane runs most day-to-day operations at the family’s two private stations (the other is in Worka Sakaro, in the southeastern corner of Gedeb), the exporting itself, and the coffee has become his namesake. Halo Hartume’s contributing farmers number almost 400, and farm sizes range from 1 to 10 hectares. The Mijane family’s involvement with farmers begins long before harvest in harvest training and the establishment of seasonal collection sites—local delivery points that reduce overland travel for farmers and provide a quality inspection point for the washing station.

During harvest season, bulk deliveries come in from the collection sites around 6 pm. Halo Hartume conducts a final inspection for uniform ripeness, foreign matter, and overall quality before admitting cherry to the tables for drying. Once transported, the cherry will dry in the sun, continuously rotated, and aerated for 1-2 weeks. Naturals at Halo Hartume are typically covered during the hottest hours of the day, 11:00 am and 3:00 pm when the sun’s intensity risks creating mold or uneven humidity across even a single layer of cherry.

Private processors like Halo Hartume are a thing to behold. The sheer competition among washing stations tends to push cherry prices as high as double throughout a single harvest. Privates often don’t have the backing of a larger union to secure financing, regulate cherry prices, or bring export costs down with centralized milling and marketing. It’s a tricky business being a remote processor in Gedeo.

Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2

The B.1.1.529 variant was first reported to WHO from South Africa on 24 November 2021. The epidemiological situation in South Africa has been characterized by three distinct peaks in reported cases, the latest of which was predominantly the Delta variant. In recent weeks, infections have increased steeply, coinciding with the detection of B.1.1.529 variant. The first known confirmed B.1.1.529 infection was from a specimen collected on 9 November 2021.

This variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning. Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other VOCs. The number of cases of this variant appears to be increasing in almost all provinces in South Africa. Current SARS-CoV-2 PCR diagnostics continue to detect this variant. Several labs have indicated that for one widely used PCR test, one of the three target genes is not detected (called S gene dropout or S gene target failure) and this test can therefore be used as a marker for this variant, pending sequencing confirmation. Using this approach, this variant has been detected at faster rates than previous surges in infection, suggesting that this variant may have a growth advantage.

There are a number of studies underway and the TAG-VE will continue to evaluate this variant. WHO will communicate new findings with the Member States and to the public as needed.

Based on the evidence presented indicative of a detrimental change in COVID-19 epidemiology, the TAG-VE has advised WHO that this variant should be designated as a VOC, and the WHO has designated B.1.1.529 as a VOC (Variant of Concern), named Omicron.

Individuals are reminded to take measures to reduce their risk of COVID-19, including proven public health and social measures such as wearing well-fitting masks, hand hygiene, physical distancing, improving the ventilation of indoor spaces, avoiding crowded spaces, and getting vaccinated.

For reference, WHO has working definitions for SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Interest (VOI) and Variant of Concern (VOC).