April Special Edition Mystery Coffee Reveal - Audun

To celebrate our second ever Mystery Coffee League Meet-up, we decided to ask two roasters which are usually hard to get in Europe to send us some special edition Mystery Coffees. The first one comes from the World Roasting Champion Audun Sørbotten who's acting as head roaster and buyer for his Audun roastery based in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

About the coffee

Straight from Los Patios, in Gigante, Huila, we bring you Peach — The Coffee Quest's first successful Co-Fermentation process.

Developed by our Research & Development team, this lot aims to elevate the beautiful and delicate profile of Geisha, striking it with the sweet notes of peach.

We buy de-pulped cherries from various producers in the region, whose farms range from 1,600 – 1,900 m.a.s.l and are an average of 3 Ha in size. Before delivering the wet parchment to Los Patios, these producers handle the first stage of the processing with 12-hour aerobic fermentation in cherry.

Once at Los Patios, our R&D department adds the commercial peach concentrate, along with our own proprietary solution to the de-pulped coffee. There is an additional fermentation during this stage, but more so the focus is a transfer of the precursors available within our peach concentrate + proprietary solution.

About the processing

This fermentation and absorption phase lasts for 2 days until the coffee is drained and placed to dry at Los Patios for between 12 – 16 days, where it is monitored and rotated constantly to ensure an even drying.

At The Coffee Quest, cup quality is paramount, but bean quality is also of utmost importance, and embryo preservation was one of our key goals while developing processes.

We are thrilled to have found success again with Peach, while also preserving the physical quality of the beans.

We just score the meet-up rounds for fun. They won't be counted towards the season end standings. The winners of the Audun's round are yerahi, Sandy-Salamandy, kekstee and Judy with 23 of points.

TOP3 of the Audun's meet-up round:
1. yerahi - 23 points
1. Sandy-Salamandy - 23 points
1. kekstee - 23 points
1. Judy - 23 points

Roaster's line-up for the next five months:
APRIL - MAY 24 - Banibeans from Ljubljana 🇸🇮
APRIL - MAY 24 Meet-up special round, in person pickup only - Audun from Bydgoszcz 🇵🇱 and Rose from Zurich 🇨🇭
JUNE 24 - Three Marks Coffee from Barcelona 🇪🇸
JULY 24 - Nomad from Barcelona 🇪🇸
AUGUST 24 - Special Guests from London 🇬🇧
SEPTEMBER 24 - Nero Scuro 🇮🇹

You can still order Banibeans special edition Mystery Coffee set. If you would like to join MCL, order coffee here and join our Discord server. You can find extra discount on our server as well!

Mystery Coffee League is sponsored by Acaia, April, Graycano and Kruve.

Thanks for the pics Herman!

Reveal of our second meet-up Mystery Coffee from Rose in two weeks. Before that you can expect some blog post about our amazing meet-up which we hosted 2 weeks ago.