Delicious Decaf Light

Finally, a delicious taste...

Unprecedented aroma and flavor! A fragrant, fruity, and rich taste!!

A taste so incredibly good, it's hard to believe it's decaf. Our focus on deliciousness has been pursued through 0566 Coffee Factory's original hybrid coffee technology.

Two types are available in the lineup.

《DECAF LIGHT》

Fruity aroma and acidity, refreshing and mellow flavor. Based on red wine with added yuzu and lemon, to bring out clean acidity and fruit sweetness.

AROMA／GRAPE.CITRUS.FLOWER

What is the ultimate "DECAF" created by 0566 Coffee Factory?

"If I drink coffee, I can't sleep at night."

"I'm pregnant, so I can't drink coffee with stimulating caffeine."

"I'm allergic to caffeine, and my face swells up when I drink coffee."

For various reasons, there are many people who love coffee but cannot drink it. So, they turn to decaf, but the common belief is that "no matter which decaf you drink, it's not delicious."

"Decaf" refers to coffee with the caffeine removed, also known as caffeine-free. While decaf is refined through various methods, all of them extract the coffee's own aroma, bitterness, richness, and even umami at the same time as caffeine, which halves its deliciousness. Although a delicious decaf would solve the problem, such a convenient thing couldn't possibly exist...

Then why not create it? With the knowledge of 0566 Coffee Factory's hybrid coffee technology, we should be able to revive the lost umami. So, we created a delicious decaf! Moreover, a new world of decaf was born, with such wonderful aroma, acidity, and richness that people would say, "Is this really caffeine-free?"

Manufacturing Process

The decaf from 0566 Coffee Factory uses raw beans from Guatemala that undergo the water process, a water-soluble method where caffeine is dissolved and extracted using natural water. The water process safely removes over 97% of caffeine without using chemicals. However, when caffeine is extracted, other umami components of the coffee also disappear. Therefore, 0566 Coffee Factory implemented its hybrid coffee production technology, blending and soaking the beans in alcoholic beverages and fruit juices, followed by a drying process and special roasting. This process allows the lost umami to be reborn in a new, upgraded version.

Why we created delicious decaf

～DECAF DELICIOUS STORY～

It all started with a casual conversation with a regular customer who said, "My daughter can't have caffeine; if she drinks coffee or green tea, she can't sleep."

"But she loves coffee and drinks decaf from various places, but none of them are delicious."

Until then, 0566 Coffee Factory had not handled decaf. The reason was that it wasn't delicious. We didn't want to sell something we didn't think was tasty. However, it seems we had a slight misunderstanding. We thought people seeking decaf were those who wanted to avoid "ingesting stimulants like caffeine," but there were surprisingly many people who wanted to drink coffee but couldn't because it contained caffeine.

As a coffee shop, it's unbearable to hear that people who love coffee can't drink it. Then it hit me: "Why don't we just create delicious decaf!" After all, we are a coffee shop that developed hybrid coffee. With that expertise, we should definitely be able to make delicious decaf. For people who love coffee but can't drink it, whether due to caffeine intolerance or pregnancy. If they love coffee, we want to help! That's when the "Delicious Decaf Production Project" began.

Using water-soluble Guatemalan beans

We immediately ordered many types of decaffeinated green beans and began test roasting.

We needed to check two points:

"What are the negative and lacking flavors in decaf?"

"Which beans are most compatible with hybrid processing?"

After numerous roasts and accumulating data, we chose water-soluble Guatemalan beans with a caffeine removal rate of over 97%. The reason for this choice was their adaptability to external liquid elements and their ability to preserve the inherent deliciousness of the beans themselves.

Our goal was "decaf for everyday drinking, enjoyable daily."

We infuse umami into these Guatemalan decaffeinated green beans using hybrid coffee technology.

The key was "not to overdo it." In other words, if we went too far with unique flavors, it would become self-satisfaction for the creator, distorting the intended direction. Although we use alcohol, we tried to keep the alcohol flavor as subtle as possible to bring out the inherent deliciousness of the coffee.

Decaf, by nature, is coffee from which caffeine has been artificially removed. Our idea was to compensate for the removed umami using hybrid coffee techniques. As a partner for our hybrid, we focused on "citrus" (mandarins, lemons, etc.), which we have been researching for a long time, aiming to create a fruity and sweet hybrid decaf coffee. In fact, I've been exploring citrus-based hybrids for a long time, so various plans were swirling in my mind.

From this point, much is proprietary, but we madly continued the process of soaking raw beans in alcohol and fruit juice, followed by roasting. No, this is the true essence of 0566 Coffee Factory. Once we start, we can't stop!

The difficulty lay in the special nature of decaffeinated green beans. Infusing anything would cause them to absorb it like a black hole, clouding the flavor. We carefully blended, being extremely cautious not to overdo it while still bringing out a robust richness, constantly engaging in endless "addition," "subtraction," and "multiplication."

Ultimately, it was completed in just three months after 40 different roasts. As a result, the hybrid partners infused into the coffee beans were:

DECAF LIGHT - Fruit wine, Yuzu, Lemon

DECAF RICH - Blend of several distilled spirits

We served the finished decaf to our regular customers and received their feedback. Here are some of their comments:

"Is this really caffeine-free?" (Woman, 20s)

"This is the most delicious decaf I've ever had!" (Woman, 30s)

"If it's this delicious, we don't even need caffeine in the first place." (Man, 50s)

"It's better than regular coffee." (Woman, 40s)

"It has a really solid flavor." (Man, 40s)

and so on.

We received wonderful feedback from coffee lovers who previously could only drink decaf. This marked the completion of 0566 Coffee Factory's "Delicious Decaf Production Project."

Please enjoy our delicious decaf without any worries. We promise you a comfortable sleep.

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