For the first round of the Q4 2022, we decided to revisit a roaster from Czech Republic who back in 2021 provided our first ever Coffee of the Month. Back then, Father's didn't have a chance to provide their Mystery Coffee pick because Mystery Coffee League wasn't even born yet. 2022 is the whole other story and now it's time to learn the details about another record breaking MCL round.
Here are all the details about October Mystery Coffee:
🇨🇴 Colombia Guapacha Estandar
Variety: Castillo
Processing: Natural
Altitude: +1800 m.a.s.l.
Tasting notes: apple, blackberry, caramel (caramelised)
Harvest: Winter 2021/2022
Score: 87The Story of the Coffee from Father's
About the cooperative:
Anserma is located in the western area of the department of Caldas. It is an agricultural center where the cultivation of coffee stands out. The cooperative started operating in 1967. It has an extensive knowledge and experience in the commercialization of coffee, and the support of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia and the Departmental Committee of Coffee Growers of Caldas. It operates in the municipalities of: Anserma, Risaralda, San José, Belalcázar and Viterbo. Its main purpose is the commercialization of coffee and other agricultural products seeking to promote and improve the economic, social, technical and cultural conditions of the associates, as long as as these are linked to the agricultural activity and especially to the production of coffee in all its areas. The cooperative has 2,083 associated coffee growers who cultivate excellent quality coffee with dedication and passion. Amongst coffee they also grow crops like sugarcane and bananas to sell for income.
About the coffee and processing:
The Cooperative with the new General Manager Luis Miguel have looked to embrace technology and teh shift towards specialty coffee production. They have been building temperature controlled areas in the warehouse for looking after the micro lots that the producers deliver. As well as this at the coopertive they have started to experiment with producing naturals for the first time without putting the risk on the producer.
The coopertive invested in a Nuna Coffee drying box that can regulate the temperature and the humidity too dry the coffee. These boxes were pioneered in Colombia to try and combat the extremely challenging in the ever changing daily climates in the Colombian Andes. To start this project they selected a few local producers who are known for quality to buy cherry from over the regular market price. From here that the cooperative they then set up a sorting station to pick the ripest cherry and create uniformity.
The varietal used in this lot is Castillo. After picking and separation the coffee is then put in the drying box where it is dried at 35 - 40 centigrade for 100-120 hours. This is the first steps and initial trial which they hope to expand and improve the capacity at the Cooperative and involve more producers in this program.
Record breaking 73 club members decided to submit their guesses in October! This number is still lower than overall number of sold Mystery Coffee bags so next month we encourage even more people to submit their guesses! All answers score some points!
We also have quite a few of the first time guessers this month, welcome to the Mystery Coffee League!
Winners of October 2022 round are RaulPerezP and lauuuuuuurah with 19 points. Third place goes tto bikepop who also scored 19 points but wasn't right about the altitude.
TOP3 of October 2022 round
1. RaulPerezP - 19 points
1. lauuuuuuurah - 19 points
3. bikepop - 19 points
Here's how our 2022 season TOP3 looks like after the September round:
TOP3 of 2022
1. Dawid - 161 points
2. KafCafQaf - 146 points
3. yerahi - 144 points
You can find full standings on our Standings subpage.
Mystery Coffee League is sponsored by Acaia, Kruve, Sibarist and Penny & Meriwether.
Time for last regular round of the year. You still have a chance to get MOK 🇧🇪 Mystery Coffee for the next couple of days. You can find more details here.
As already announced few weeks ago, pre-order for our Advent Calendar with AMOC from Rotterdam 🇳🇱 are open. In December, we're coming back with quadruple Mystery Coffee League round. 4 coffees for each week of Advent in 100g tins. This year only premium, rare and unique beans. Pre-orders for our Mystery Advent Calendar with early discounts end in late-November. Discount code can be found on our Discord server. AMOC is not making any profit on our Mystery Coffee Advent Calendar, all money goes into beans and packaging. Really unique opportunity to try some top-notch beans during Christmas period!
