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2026 David Berrio; La Casita, Surprise Encore - Colombia — supplied coffee image 1
Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 David Berrio; La Casita, Surprise Encore - Colombia; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 David Berrio; La Casita, Surprise Encore - Colombia; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 David Berrio; La Casita, Surprise Encore - Colombia; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇨🇴Colombia · Antioquia

2026 David Berrio; La Casita, Surprise Encore - Colombia

TRADITIONAL PROCESS
🇨🇴ColombiaWashedChiroso
Roaster website
Country
🇨🇴Colombia
Region
Antioquia
Town
Urrao
Farm / Station
Farmer / Producer
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Specialty
Variety
Process
Roast
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Tasting notes
Peach, Melon, Red tea, Floral
Fermentation
Held in cherry for 24 hours, then depulped and fermented underwater in stainless steel tanks using the cochadas method; coffee was added through the week and washed together on Monday.
Drying
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Product page
Date reviewed
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Why some details are blank
  • drying methodSEY states only that the coffee dried to 10.5% moisture; it does not publish the drying surface, equipment, or duration.
  • availabilityThe official page still shows stale future-release wording after the stated date and exposes no current order controls, so availability remains Unknown.
  • roast levelSEY does not publish a conventional light-to-dark roast level for this release.
  • roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is published for this release.
The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    2026 David Berrio; La Casita, Surprise Encore - Colombia
  2. 02
    The brand
  3. 03
    The roaster
  4. 04
    The variety
  5. 05
    The farm
  6. 06
    The farmer
  7. 07
    The region
  8. 08
From the producer

David Berrio is a second-generation producer who manages the remote 1.5-hectare La Casita farm in Urrao with his family.

From the roaster

SEY lists peach, melon, red tea and floral notes for this July 2026 washed Chiroso harvest.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This release documents a remote high-elevation Chiroso lot and its unusual cochadas workflow in detail. The current product page has stale availability messaging, so availability is not inferred.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Picking

Cherries were hand-picked at peak ripeness and floated.

02
Holding and transport

The coffee was held in cherry for 24 hours, then moved by horse and car from the remote farm.

03
Fermentation

After depulping, the coffee fermented underwater in stainless steel tanks using the cochadas method. Coffee was added through the week and washed together on Monday.

04
Drying endpoint

SEY reports drying until the coffee reached 10.5 percent moisture, but does not name the physical drying structure on this page.

What was added?

No fruit, spice or other flavoring ingredient is disclosed.

What wasn't added?

The page does not describe a co-ferment or flavored process.

Why it matters

The staged cochadas method is the key processing detail for this lot. It should not be simplified into a fixed five-day fermentation because the page describes coffee being added through the week.

What you might taste

SEY lists peach, melon, red tea and floral character.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2026-david-berrio-la-casita-surprise-encore-colombia
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-26) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

Exact retailer and catalog pages were used only to verify release identity, price and package. Cherrybook's evidence-quality index, generic roaster sentiment and non-scored catalog listings were excluded from public sentiment.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

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Other roasters, same producer.

These coffees come from the same producer or farm, offered by other roasters. We never automatically declare two offerings the exact same coffee — a match requires lot, harvest and traceability details. Even a true same-lot pair can taste different: roast approach, freshness, rest and brewing all reshape the cup.

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