Press and facts

A factual sheet for editors, writers, and anyone who reads labels. Everything here is verifiable. Quote freely.

What Blaq is

Blaq Coffee is an organic specialty coffee roaster in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur. Single-origin coffees, roasted in-house, tested for mycotoxins on the green bean before roasting. Online at blaqcoffee.com.

The positioning, in one line

Specialty coffee that is mycotoxin-tested, organic, and traceable to the farm. Sold in Malaysia and across Southeast Asia.

What is verifiable

• The lab. Mycotoxin testing is carried out by Eurofins Sac Ky Hai Dang, an independent laboratory accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 under VILAS 238.
• What is tested. The green, unroasted bean, before roasting.
• What the reports show. Not detected for ochratoxin A, aflatoxin B1, and total aflatoxins, reported against the laboratory's limit of detection.
• Where to find them. A report is linked on each coffee's product page.
• Roasting. In-house, in Kuala Lumpur. Roasting is known to further reduce ochratoxin A.
• Organic status. The Arabica range is certified organic. The Malaysian Liberica is organic by practice, grown without synthetic inputs, and not certified. We state the difference plainly and do not blur the two.

What we do not claim

No health benefits. No suggestion that other coffee is unsafe. Our own framing is the whole of it. We prefer to know rather than assume.

The coffees

Eight single origins, across Ethiopia, Peru, Colombia, Panama, and Malaysia, including two Malaysian Liberica lots. Each one is grown, processed, and tested before it reaches the bag. Origin, process, and the test report for each coffee sit on its own product page.

Subscription

The Standing Arrangement. Coffee on a rhythm you set, at the same price as buying it bag by bag. No discount. The only thing it saves you is running out.

Showroom

Cheras, Kuala Lumpur. Open Monday to Saturday, 11am to 3pm.

Markets

Malaysia & Singapore next. Then further in Asia.

A note on the founder

Blaq Coffee does not publicly name its founder. The brand is built on one principle. The person behind it will not sell coffee they would not drink themselves. Please do not attribute a founder name. None is on record.

Lines you may quote

• Blaq Coffee is a Kuala Lumpur roaster of organic, single-origin specialty coffee, tested for mycotoxins on the green bean by an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited lab.
• A Malaysian specialty roaster that publishes a third-party mycotoxin report for every coffee it sells.

How to credit

Blaq Coffee. blaqcoffee.com. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.