Origin: Colombia, Cauca

Farmer: Finca Juan Martin

Roast: Light roast

Profile: Filter

Variety: Geisha, Microlot Variety Select

Processing  method: Washed

Altitude: 2050 m

SCA: 90 ponts

Fun Fact: This coffee comes with a sonic experience. 

Tasting notes: From sweet, fruity rhythms to gentle green-tea harmonies — let the melody of this cup sweep you away.

We recommend this coffee for those who truly savour the moment.

Boogie Beans is the latest addition to the Hi New Beans! Limited Art & Coffee Series, where the art of coffee meets the art of music. This lot was inspired by the harmony between sound and flavor: we created a four-minute sonic journey that guides the drinker through the coffee’s aromas and tasting notes.

he music for this coffee was composed by Tamás Rochlitz (Monkeyneck), while the visual experience is brought to life through a painting by artist Alíz Vojnits, on display at Edison & Jupiter Café until December 31, 2025.
The unique 31×31 cm vinyl packaging was designed by Péter Vágvölgyi, including a color wheel illustrating the flavors and aromas and providing insight into the project.

About the Coffee
Boogie Beans is built on the legendary Geisha variety, cultivated at the experimental and innovative Finca Juan Martin in Colombia’s Cauca region. Originally from Ethiopia, Geisha has become an icon in the world of specialty coffee over the past decades. Its uniqueness lies in its complex floral and fruity profile, with origins tracing back to 1930s Ethiopia, and it remains a favorite at the world’s most prestigious coffee competitions.

In the cup, you’ll find notes of panela, fresh elderflower, and toffee, accompanied by subtle green-tea undertones. The Boogie Beans blend was created in collaboration with the Cracker Jack team from Pécs, Hungary,, with flawless roasting by master roaster Balázs Hajdú.

Cauca region in Colombia
Cauca is renowned not only for its coffee but also for its rich cultural heritage and natural beauty. The volcanic soils provide nutrients that enrich the coffee plants, while the combination of cool days and cold nights creates ideal conditions for slow cherry maturation, producing a rich, sweet flavor profile.

Over 90,000 families work in coffee production in the region, many of them indigenous. Coffee cultivation here is more than a livelihood; it’s a tool for preserving community identity and traditions. The Cauca River, Colombia’s second-longest, runs through the region, playing a vital role in local ecosystems and the economy.

Beyond coffee, Cauca is home to a rich and diverse birdlife, including numerous rare and endemic species, thanks to its varied habitats.

Music & Coffee — in Harmony
The idea of connecting music and coffee was central to the project. Locating the right artists, roasters, consultants, and green beans took ten months of dedicated work.

Creative Brief: Compose a sensory-rich music piece that complements the ritual of enjoying Geisha coffee, creating an uplifting, present-moment experience with a positive emotional tone.

In food science, auditory perception is often overlooked in cross-modal sensory studies, yet most people rarely consume food or drink in silence. Background sound strongly influences preferences, consumption speed, flavor recognition, and overall enjoyment.

In Fiegel’s study, participants sampled emotional foods (e.g., milk chocolate) and non-emotional foods (e.g., bell peppers) while listening to four genres: classical, jazz, hip-hop, and rock. For milk chocolate, the overall impression was significantly higher when participants listened to jazz compared to hip-hop (Fiegel, A., Meullenet, J.-F., Harrington, R. J., Humble, M., & Seo, H.-S., 2014).

Music Enhances Enjoyment
Our emotions and mood states influence taste perception. Blood and Zatorre (2001) showed that pleasant music increases cerebral blood flow in areas linked to reward and motivation, whereas unpleasant or dissonant sounds trigger negative emotional responses. In their study, milk chocolate paired with positive music not only altered taste perception but also enhanced enjoyment and satisfaction.

Tempo & Sonic Seasoning
Music tempo affects the coffee-drinking experience: slow tempos encourage relaxed, mindful tasting, while fast tempos create energetic, lively consumption. This is a key aspect of sonic seasoning, where auditory cues subtly modulate flavor perception.

Certain pitch ranges and musical styles correspond to specific tastes: bitter pairs with low, slow, legato music; salty with short, staccato melodies; sour with high-pitched, fast, slightly dissonant tones; and sweet with slow, soft, consonant music (Spence, C., 2013).

Boogie Beans Music
For us, a balanced cup carries sweet, acidic, and bitter notes, so the composition was designed to showcase all three sequentially. The goal was to maintain a positive mood, using house-jazz as a foundation with live instrumental overdubs. Tempo was set at a moderate pace to sustain excitement without rushing the tasting.

Encoding Music and Self-Observation
Sweet Profile: – Piano and saxophone solos in the music.
Pleasant, harmonious music, such as piano, strings, and flute, with consonance and a gentle tempo, enhances the perception of sweetness.

Sour Profile: – Tempo and soprano female voice in the music.
High-pitched, fast-tempo, clear tones, such as staccato piano and flute with slight dissonance, amplify the perception of sourness.

Bitter Profile: – Bridge sections located in the middle and towards the end of the music.
Deep, textured tones, such as distorted synthesizers and ambient drones, with slow tempo and dissonance, enhance the perception of bitterness. (Crisinel & Spence, 2012)