2025-01-01

December Mystery Coffee Reveal - Banibeans

December Mystery Coffee was the first one from 2024/25 harvest. Shipped directly from the farm just for us. Here are all the details:

🇪🇨 Ecuador Cruz Loma

Farmer: Galo and Alexandra Morales
Region: San Jose de Minas, Pichincha
Variety: Geisha
Processing: Natural
Altitude: 1450 masl
Tasting notes: orange, raspberry, jasmine
Harvest: Autumn 2024

About the farm:

Cruz Loma is a family run, award winning farm which has been producing coffee for over 20 years. It is only in the last 6 years that it started focusing on specialty coffee. Galo Morales is a former technician for Caravela where he gained much valued experience. He now focuses all this experience on his farm. Along with his wife, Maria Alexandra, they run a pioneering farm in the country that has won various prizes in the last few years.

Galo and Alexandra also run their own dry mill in the centre of Quito, here they also have a laboratory where all their quality control happens before exporting the coffee.

Their business focuses on the improvement of knowledge and skills in their workers, giving them free training and funding careers in aspects like farming, processing, roasting, cup tasting and commerce.

Stats

Congratulations to Robbo_123, Khers, and Moo for winning the December round! Each of them scored 23 points.

TOP2 of December round:
1. Khers - 23 points
1. moo - 23 points
1. Robbo_123 - 23 points

It’s time to hand out the final prizes of the 2024 season! The choice of an Option-O voucher or an Acaia Lunar goes to Khers, who performed the best in Q4 2024. Be sure to keep an eye on our server for announcements about additional prize giveaways. Anyone with a 3/3 participation rate is eligible to participate in the Q4 2024 giveaways.

TOP3 of Q3 2024:
1. Khers - 88 points
2. AprilApril - 87 points
2. Kaps - 87 points

The 2024 Mystery Coffee League season is officially over. This was our fourth season, and once again, we had over 200 active participants. This year, we featured 17 different Mystery Coffees, including three special edition ones. The selection included coffees from Panama, Ethiopia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and even Australia, showcasing all possible processing combinations and a diverse range of varietals: Geisha, Mejorado, Sidra, F1 Hybrids, Pink Bourbon, Typica, Geisha 1931, Batian, Catuai, and Maragesha.

We hope to break some records next year during our fifth season. The 2024 MCL champion is Jarg89, with 232 points. Second place goes to Edut, and third place goes to Raul. Congrats!

TOP3 of 2024 Season:
1. Jarg89 - 232 points
2. Edu - 225 points
3. Raul - 212 points

Roaster's line-up for the next few months:
JANUARY 25 - Kawa from Paris 🇫🇷

FEBRUARY 25 - Rozali from Berlin

Mystery Coffee League is sponsored by Acaia, Option-O, April, Graycano and Kruve. Thanks for supporting us!

Thanks for the pics Herman!