Elegance in Motion

Posted on by Diana Johnston Ledezma

Some Geshas shout. This one unfolds.
Not with volume or force, but with quiet radiance and a movement that feels as if the cup is taking a breath before it begins to open. This is the newest Mythic Microraptor of Roastersaurus, a coffee shaped not by intensity, but by grace. It is washed yet moves like a honey, silky and composed. It is floral yet steady, bright yet serene. It is a Mythic defined by stillness in motion, a rare moment of elegance that glows rather than erupts.

Arlam’s Gesha is also the first release to reveal Swoop, one of the movement types in the Roastersaurus world. Some coffees carry force, others carry precision. This one carries choice.

The Cup in Motion

From the highlands of Huehuetenango, this Gesha expresses the new moment emerging from Guatemala. Over the past two years, the region has begun producing Gesha lots that show refinement and clarity without relying on fermentation for drama. Instead of intensity, they offer sweetness through terroir, elegance through process, and depth through restraint.

Arlam’s Gesha moves in exactly this way. It does not force its character. It unfolds. Stonefruit and lychee rise first, carrying jasmine-pearl texture. Then the cup deepens into bergamot, peach, orange blossom and lemongrass over a soft milk oolong texture. The finish lingers with floral lift and honey-like glow. Everything is balanced. Everything is deliberate.

The Art

Illustrated by @kitsukaizen with original creature design by @killbeef, the Microraptor glides across the terraces of Huehuetenango. Feathers drift softly around her, light gathering along the wings as she circles in a quiet arc. This is the motion of Swoop, held in illustration before it lands in gameplay.

The drifting feathers mirror something that happens with Arlam’s roast itself. When ground, a fine gold-tinted chaff rises briefly and hangs in the air before settling. A gentle bloom, weightless and luminous. The artwork holds both moments at once: the glide of Swoop and the shimmer that lifts from the cup before flavour begins to unfold.

This release also marks the first gold foil Roastersaurus card, a Mythic in both character and form.

The Producer and the Farm

Arlam Aguirre and his partner Yoesmi are members of ASIAST, a smallholder cooperative in San Antonio Huista dedicated to ecological farming and long-term soil health. Arlam is an agronomical engineer and former Anacafé technician, bringing deep technical knowledge to cultivation and processing. His brother Klisman manages drying with equal care.

Their farm, El Aguacate, sits at 1,750 masl in Agua Dulce. Shade trees slow ripening. Terracing protects soil. Shrubs planted between rows help retain moisture in a climate that shifts quickly between dry and cool. Each detail is intentional, each decision shaped by observation.

The result is a cup that feels calm, balanced and luminous. A washed Gesha that behaves like a honey, carrying sweetness and clarity in equal measure.

Movement in the Roastersaurus World

Every Roastersaurus coffee carries a movement — the way its flavour, structure and energy behave in the cup. These movements come from the coffee itself, shaped by processing, terroir and roasting choices. While some dinosaur classes often lean toward certain instincts, the movement always belongs to the cup.

There are three movements in the Roastersaurus world:

Stomp
A grounded movement of weight and force. Cups with depth, mass and heavy sweetness often carry the Stomp instinct.

Stealth
A precise movement, clean and controlled. Washed coffees and structured naturals that strike with clarity often express Stealth.

Swoop
A movement defined by glide and intention. Fruit-forward or creamy cups with balance and softness, coffees that move between lift and depth, often reveal Swoop.

Each movement will be explored in more detail later this month as the game begins to unravel.

Swoop Revealed

Swoop is the only movement shaped by choice.
Where Stomp commits to force and Stealth commits to precision, Swoop pauses for a breath, letting the player decide how the moment will land. A cleaner strike or a deeper one, never both at once. It is a movement of intention rather than instinct.

Arlam’s Gesha carries Swoop perfectly. It can glow lightly or settle sweetly. It can lift or deepen depending on how it is brewed. It chooses its moment, unfolding rather than erupting.

How Arlam Moves When Brewed

This coffee is highly soluble and lightly roasted, which means it responds immediately to small shifts in brewing.

A gentle taper after first crack keeps the roast luminous, preserving jasmine-pearl aromatics while allowing a thin ribbon of nectarine sweetness to settle. The curve stays calm and controlled, giving the coffee the glide that defines Swoop.

Kalita Wave Filters, on Origami (4:00 drawdown)
Slow and steady, it lands with oolong-like texture and deeper peach sweetness.
A heavier, more grounded expression.

Sibarist or Meteor fast filter, on Origami (2:10 brew)
The cup lifts into peach and orange, with jasmine pearl brightness shimmering at the top.
A clean and precise expression.

Immersion
A deeper glide: nectarine, orange blossom, warm honey.
Soft, sweet, flowing.

Espresso (18g in, 45g out, 23 seconds)
Radiant and surprisingly citrus-heavy.
Bright orange, glowing sweetness, incredible for an espresso tonic.

This range of expression is exactly why Arlam moves with Swoop.
The cup can land clean or land deep, depending on intention.

Cup Character

Floral, silky, luminous.
Peach, lychee and orange with jasmine and bergamot lift, settling into a milk oolong finish with quiet radiance. Elegant, balanced and serene.

Collect and Discover

Each pack includes the first gold foil Microraptor card and the first appearance of Swoop, a movement shaped by intention. With this release, the Roastersaurus world continues to open. The layers of the game are starting to reveal themselves slowly and with purpose, much like the coffees that inspire them.

The last release introduced the cup statistics and how they describe flavour and structure. This release brings the next pieces. The card’s QR code takes you to the lore page, and this is where the newest gameplay features are revealed. Arlam’s page introduces the first example of a skill that activates before attacks, offering a quiet glimpse into how timing will shape the flow of a turn.

Over the next blogs, more of the system will continue to unfold. The three attack types will be explored in a way that links cup character to in game movement, and the brand story will deepen to show how each coffee, creature and card fit together. These features are not arriving all at once. They appear piece by piece, keeping the world fun to explore and allowing the structure behind it to settle naturally.

Arlam is not a beginning or an ending. It is the next step in the reveal.
More movements, more gameplay hints and more of the Roastersaurus world will continue to open from here.

For now, grab your bag here.

Let’s Play: The Spark of Precision

Posted on by Diana Johnston Ledezma

Roastersaurus keeps growing alongside me, one coffee at a time. With each release, I find another piece of its world taking shape — another creature, another feeling, another story the cup wants to tell. None of it is planned in advance. The coffee leads, and I follow.

After the bright rebellion of Slipwing and the rare stillness of Mythic, this release brings something more deliberate. Quickfang carries a sharper kind of grace, all movement and intention. It’s a reminder that strength doesn’t always shout. Sometimes it’s found in clarity, in rhythm, in how gently something can strike.

Basha Bekele, Quickfang Raptor

The newest addition to Roastersaurus is Basha Bekele, representing the Quickfang class, the raptors of the cup. Quickfangs are sharp, agile and deliberate, defined by movement, control and clarity.

This lot from Basha’s Gonjobe site in Bensa, Sidamo, Ethiopia, shows the precision that defines his work. It is a natural process that behaves with the control of a washed, guided by slow shade-drying and exact sorting. The altitude keeps sweetness and clarity in balance, giving the cup high, sparkling acidity and clean structure.

Mandarin cuts through with focus and elegance, followed by guava, apricot and a lingering papaya finish. Floral, tropical and refined, it carries the sparkling bite we expect from a Quickfang — energy expressed through clarity and poise.

About the Producer

Basha Bekele is part of Ethiopia’s new generation of producers, known for his patience, structure and discipline. Working with Mecota Trading, he sources only ripe red cherries from farmers around his site in the highlands of Sidamo at 2,450 masl.

In 2024 he won first place in the Ethiopia Cup of Excellence. In 2025 he was nominated for Notable Coffee Producer at the Sprudgie Awards. His precision and transparency have influenced other farmers across the region, with many adopting his methods of slow drying and consistent sorting. His work shows how one producer’s focus can lift an entire community.

The Art

Illustrated by @kitsukaizen, as inspired by original @killbeef artwork + imagery of Bekele and the farm

The artwork shows the Quickfang Raptor beneath shade nets, a woven basket of flowers and ripe cherries in its claws, a straw hat shading its eyes. The pose is calm but alert, a quiet readiness.

When placed beside the photo of Basha Bekele, the translation becomes clear. The hat, the nets and his careful posture all appear in the design. The flowers nod to the cup’s floral undertones, while the raptor’s composure mirrors Basha’s own precision and care.

It is not a fantasy portrait, but a visual translation of his process and presence, reimagined through the Roastersaurus world.

From the Lore

Basha Bekele is the first Quickfang of Roastersaurus.
Quickfangs are built on definition and intent. They move with purpose, every strike measured, every sip clear.

What Quickfang Represents

If Slipwings are disruption and Mythics are rarity, Quickfangs are refinement.
They show that precision can be just as powerful as experimentation. A Quickfang does not shout. It cuts through the noise, reminding us that mastery often speaks quietly.

Skill: Floral Feint

His card skill, Floral Feint, reflects that same idea. When Agility exceeds an opponent’s, Quickfang avoids the next strike but loses one Power the following turn. In the cup, it appears as softness before impact, a floral veil before the bright mandarin edge. A moment of elegance before precision lands.

Attack Types: How Processing Becomes Play

This release marks the first time I am decoding Attack Types, the next layer in the Roastersaurus system.

Every card carries not only a class and stats, but an attack type that connects directly to how the coffee was processed. Processing shapes sweetness, clarity and body, and in the Roastersaurus world that becomes how a coffee moves and strikes.

For Quickfangs, that attack type is Stealth.

Stealth belongs to washed coffees and bright, controlled anaerobics, cups that move with precision instead of force. They don’t hit with weight; they strike through clarity and timing.

What makes Basha Bekele unique is that it is a natural coffee that behaves with Stealth precision. Naturals usually lean toward the Stomp type, heavy and layered, but this one is different. Its balance, structure and sparkling acidity give it the agility of a washed coffee without losing natural sweetness.

In the cup, that means brightness that does not shout, acidity that cuts cleanly, and a finish that lands before you even notice it has arrived. Focused, deliberate and alive. The calm before the strike.

A full decoding of Attack Types will come soon, exploring how each process, from natural to honey to washed, shapes both flavour and play.

The Stats Decoded

The Basha Bekele Quickfang card brings together Stealth and its stat build to form the Quickfang identity. This combination of movement, structure and clarity is what allows this coffee to take on the raptor form.

Each stat mirrors a real sensory quality from the cup, turning its flavour and texture into motion.

Agility 10 (Acidity) → Sparkling mandarin lift that defines its pace and clarity.
Bite 8 (Tactile Edge) → Wine-like tropical snap that adds sharp, clean energy.
Power 6 (Body Weight) → Light to medium texture, focused and refined.
Armour 4 (Structure) → A balanced frame that holds steady without heaviness.
Stamina 7 (Aftertaste) → Lingering papaya and florals that carry the flavour forward.
Charm 7 (Sweetness) → Brown-sugar depth and soft florals that round the brightness.

Together these stats shape the Quickfang’s nature: fast, agile and precise. They define how it moves in the game and why this particular cup, with its clarity and spark, could only become a Quickfang. Soon, these stats will come into gameplay, determining how each card performs, evolves and interacts within the Roastersaurus world.

Looking ahead

My hope has always been to keep unravelling this story, to build something that connects coffee, creativity and play in a way that keeps evolving. Each release adds another piece to the world and another way to share what we create together. It’s still growing, still changing, and that’s what I love most about it.

Roastersaurus isn’t just about flavour. It’s about what happens after, how the moment of tasting becomes memory, then story, and soon, play. Each card carries that continuation, holding a fragment of the cup that lives on long after the coffee is gone.

If you want to dive deeper into how these ideas began, you can read Decode the Cup: How Roastersaurus Stats Are Born. That post explores how the world started to form through flavour, movement and intent… and how all of that is represented by the stats on the card. And keep watching this space as I continue to tell you the story behind Roastersaurus, continue to decode the cards, and of course reveal how to play the game.

For now, enjoy the spark of Quickfang and the precision that makes it strike just right.
Pre-orders for Basha Bekele (Quickfang) are now live through Roastersaurus, available in small quantities for those who move fast.

Let’s play.




🦕 Decode the Cup: How Roastersaurus Stats Are Born

Posted on by Diana Johnston Ledezma

Every flavour tells a story.

From acidity and sweetness to agility and charm, this is how Roastersaurus brings the cup to life.

I created Roastersaurus to build a bridge between the way coffee feels and the way we talk about it.
After years of roasting, cupping, and competing, I wanted a new language, one that made tasting more intuitive and playful without losing depth.


Each coffee has a character, each character translated into a card, each sensory attribute a stat. What begins as acidity, sweetness, or structure turns into movement, tension, and endurance. It’s a way to explore a multi-sensory understanding through design and imagination, connecting the ritual of drinking coffee to the energy it holds.

Every Roastersaurus card begins with a cup of coffee.
Before there’s design, story, or gameplay, there’s taste.

When I built the stat system for Roastersaurus, I wanted every number to come from something real… something you can feel when you drink the coffee. These stats aren’t abstract; they’re sensory translations. They turn flavour and texture into motion, structure, and behaviour.

Each one comes from the same process I use when I roast or cup: looking at how the coffee moves, holds itself, and lingers. What starts as acidity, sweetness, or mouthfeel becomes agility, bite, or stamina once it enters the Roastersaurus world. And in fact the cup is what decides which class or dino the coffee will become in the first place (more on that in another post in the future).

For me, these cards are about more than collecting (although thats definitely on the cards 😂). They are about tapping into that inner child we all carry, the part of us that still lights up at something simple and playful. If my coffees and cards can give someone a moment of joy, a smile that lifts them out of the grind of daily life, then they are doing exactly what I hoped. If they can then share that moment with someone else through the soon to be revealed gameplay, even better.

⚡️Agility: Acidity & Movement

Agility describes how fast and vividly flavour moves.
A high-agility coffee feels bright, zesty, and quick to react. It sparks across the palate, lively and directed.
Lower agility brings calm and weight. The coffee feels steady, slower to rise, more composed.

💥 Power: Body & Weight

Power is presence.
A high-power coffee is dense, syrupy, and grounded. You feel its gravity.
Low-power cups are lighter, almost tea-like, moving through space instead of filling it.

🦷 Bite: Tactile Edge & Energy

Bite is the tactile tension between acidity and body.
It’s the snap, the grip, the sparkling edge that makes a coffee feel alive.
High bite gives that electric, effervescent quality.
Low bite glides instead of sparks, smooth and seamless.

🏋️ Stamina: Finish & Endurance

Stamina is time.
It’s how long flavour lingers and evolves after the sip.
High stamina coffees unfold slowly, changing as they fade.
Low stamina cups finish clean, quick, and clear.

✨ Charm: Sweetness & Appeal

Bite is the tactile tension between acidity and body.
It’s the snap, the grip, the sparkling edge that makes a coffee feel alive.
High bite gives that electric, effervescent quality.
Low bite glides instead of sparks, smooth and seamless.

🛡 Armour: Structure & Stability

Armour holds everything together.
It’s the structure that keeps flavour balanced and coherent.
High armour coffees are velvety and layered, with texture that stays cohesive.
Low armour is delicate and fleeting, flavour that collapses once the sip is gone.

Flavour Becomes Function

Every stat comes directly from the sensory world.
What you taste defines how each Roastersaurus card behaves later in play.

It is not just data. It is the bridge between cup and character, the point where sensory experience becomes story.

Looking Ahead

Roastersaurus has always been about connection, between taste and touch, between player and planet. The upcoming gameplay element builds on that same foundation.

Each card, each coffee, and each choice will shape how you engage with the world of Roastersaurus. It is designed to be interactive and sustainable, rewarding curiosity instead of consumption.

What starts as packaging becomes something that lives on. The coffee info card you receive with the bag is not waste; it is part of a growing game and a collector’s world. It carries memory, first of the coffee you tasted, then of the people you shared it with, or battled against.

It is a small act of transformation, turning what is usually discarded into something lasting. Even the Roastersaurus stickers can be easily peeled from the bags and placed wherever you like, on your water bottle, notebook, or laptop, small fragments of story that travel with you.

It is a system that celebrates flavour, creativity, and play while keeping materials in use and stories alive.

Roastersaurus is about tasting, collecting, remembering, and sometimes, winning.
And this is only the start. Every mark on each card holds intention, more layers of the world still waiting to be decoded.