March Mystery Coffee Reveal - Industra

Hello, coffee lovers! My name is ChatGPT, and I'm here to help you discover the wonderful world of coffee. Today, I'm taking over for Dawid, who is experiencing a bit of writer's block and needs some help getting started with this post.

As a language model, I am designed to assist with all kinds of writing tasks, including blog posts like this one. And today, we have some exciting news to share with you about the March Mystery Coffee!

From its unique flavor profile to its origin and brewing recommendations, we have all the information you need to enjoy a truly exceptional cup of coffee. So whether you're a seasoned coffee aficionado or a newcomer to the world of specialty coffee, we've got you covered.

But before we dive into the details, there's something else you should know: Yesterday's Vietnamese leak was created by me. Yes, that's right - as an AI language model, I have the ability to generate text that is virtually indistinguishable from human writing. Pretty impressive, right?

Now, without further ado, here are all the details about March Mystery Coffee. Let's get brewing!

Word from Petra about the coffee and farm:

Hey Mystery Coffee League folks!

Thanks again so much for trying our Mystery Coffee. We did manage to put together our site in English during March, so now you can order our coffee within the EU even more conveniently, thanks so much for your patience! <3

I'm sure you can't wait to find out what coffee you've been drinking all March. We've been lucky enough to look directly at the farms it comes from, and even luckier that it's freshly harvested, which we plan to buy again.

The secret coffee is called Juba, which is locally translated as "mountain". It comes from an altitude of up to 2 000 metres above sea level, where it grows very wild in what is known as the coffee forest. The indigenous varieties in Ethiopia, for example, grow in much the same way. The local farmers are very poor and have no education, let alone training in agriculture. They let the indigenous varieties - Typica and Bourbon - grow wild here, without using fertilisers and sprays, without any intervention in the growth of the plant. Thanks to the high altitude and the extreme temperatures - 35 C during the day and up to 10 C at night - these varieties have so far avoided both the 'Roja' coffee rust and the 'Broka' cherry blight. Both of these problems are faced by the rest of the region at lower altitudes, where the original varieties are already having to be replaced by more resistant hybrids. This area is a real hidden treasure. Until five years ago, Nestlé was buying coffee here at rock-bottom prices, without telling the farmers how good their coffee was. It was only thanks to the export company Ensambles, which discovered this potential, that this coffee came to us. It is rated 85 points and farmers are finally getting paid for premium quality.

The coffee is dry-processed, which is not the only way to do it in this region. The ripe cherries are mostly drying on concrete "patios" from which they have to hide from the humidity every night. It dries slowly here for about 2 weeks.

Farmers sell whole dried cherries whose green coffee yield is about 50%. Each farm is a different size, some even grow only 60 Kg of green coffee in a whole year. Therefore, coffees from nearly 50 small growers in that area are mixed together to make a "Juba" blend. The total production of Juba is about 80 bags of coffee (about 5 tons).

The coffee is further processed by an exporter.

Although the coffee is processed using the natural method, it has a very clean taste. It is very sweet like panela sugar and has flavour notes of pineapple, pecan nuts, blueberry, and milk chocolate. 

It is a coffee from the Guerrero region of Mexico.

We have very strong impressions after this visit. We would like to continue to support small farmers in need. These people deserve to be paid fairly and they also want to learn more about how to grow coffee to make it even better. We plan to have coffee from various places in Mexico on offer all year round and we would love it if you decided to support these people by burying it with us <3 Thank you!

Only three club members guessed the country of origin correctly - shout out to calu, ra1nbowkitty and mqoltn! The best of the best in March? The winners of March 2023 round are ex aequo hubocanovamartina and seb686 with 20 points! Calu takes third place with 18 points.

TOP3 of March 2023 round:
1. hubocanovamartina - 20 points
1. seb686 - 20 points
3. calu - 18 points

Sami is leading the 2023 MCL Season and winning the Q1 2023 with 57 points. Brand new Acaia Lunar goes to him. Followed by RedSteve and Jarg89 with 55 and 53 points respectively. Selection of ACME voucher and Kruve glasses goes to them (second place has a priority in selecting the prize).

TOP3 of 2023 Season & Q1 2023:
1. Sami - 57 points
2. RedSteve - 55 points
3. Jarg89 - 53 points

Thanks to all people who submitted their guesses this quarter. In March we have yet another record of 103 submitted guesses. We're currently on three-month record streak. We hope to break current record again in April with Banibeans! We know that number of sold Mystery Coffee bags is higher than 103 so help us in setting up a new record one more time. Also it's a start of the new quarter so you have a clean sheet for winning the prizes!

Reminder about our monthly giveaway of the Mystery Coffee and Coffee of the Month which is going to start soon on Discord.

Roaster's line-up for the next two months:

APRIL 23 - Banibeans, Ljubljana 🇸🇮
MAY 23 - DAK Coffee Roasters, Amsterdam 🇳🇱

Mystery Coffee League is sponsored by Acaia, 1zpresso, ACME, Kruve and Penny&Meriwether.

A very exciting month is ahead of us. At the end of April, we hold our first ever Mystery Coffee League meetup in the Netherlands. About 30 club members are going to meet for two days to cup and brew a lot of coffees together. Including an early May Mystery Coffee cupping in DAK's Showroom in Amsterdam and 2022 Mystery Coffee Cupping at AMOC's roasting space in Rotterdam.