August Mystery Coffee Reveal - Schoen

Chepsangor Hills is located in Nandi County in western Kenya. The farm is owned by Dr. Rosebella Langat and her husband Sammy. They grow their own coffee and also buy from small farmers in the surrounding area to find the best beans available. They started growing coffee in 2016 and took it to the Kabsaos cooperative for pulping. Chepsangor Hills is currently one of the most professional projects in the region. This is because it promotes the sustainable growth of coffee through environmentally friendly and agricultural practices.

Rosebella's vision is to help local communities, especially women, achieve sustainable social, environmental, and economic empowerment. They have a compost project for organic fertilizer. They also use a greenhouse with multi-layered sun drying beds so that the naturals can be dried faster and independently of rain. The coffee is imported in 30 kg jute bags or even vacuum-packed. One more note. When we visited the farm ourselves in 2023, Sammy explained to us that they wait until the cherries are almost overripe before harvesting them in order to achieve maximum sweetness. They even measured the Brix value for this. We didn't see this at any other farm we visited.

Note from Daniel:

I have to say that the Mystery Coffee unfortunately fell a little short of my expectations. I had hoped for a little more. I really liked it when I cupped it back then, and it was also great when I cupped it freshly roasted. But somehow it didn't develop as I had hoped. Not quite as ‘special’ as I had hoped. If I had received the coffee a little earlier and had more time, I might have decided on Villa Flor as MC after all. I hope the Mystery League was still able to make something of it...

Congratulations to moger roore for winning June round with the score of 20.6 points. Followed by philou5817 with 20.05 points and PaD with 17.85 points.

TOP3 of August round:
1. moger roore - 20.6 points
2. philou5817 - 20.05 points
3. PaD - 17.85 points

We also have a new game for 2025 season - the Coffee Guesser. Our members need to select the exact location of Mystery Coffee farm on the map. Whoever is the closest, is winning a free Mystery Coffee bag in the following month! Our August winner is Max with the impressive score of 26km!

TOP3 of 2025 Season:
1. R - 134.6 points
2. sebo_m - 131.05 points
3. Jarg89 - 130.15 points

Roaster's line-up for the next few months:
SEPTEMBER 25 - Friedhats from Amsterdam, Netherlands
OCTOBER 25 - Replica from Leuven, Belgium

Thanks for the pics Herman!