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🇨🇴Colombia · Nariño

Decaf K’uychi

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsColombia Nariño Washed Light roast Cherry Molasses Arabica Single origin K’uychi K'uychi producers Counter Culture Coffee Independent

🇨🇴ColombiaWashedField BlendLight roast

Brand

Counter Culture Coffee

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇨🇴Colombia

Region

Nariño

Town

Samaniego

Farm / Station

K’uychi

Farmer / Producer

K'uychi producers

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Field Blend

Process

Roast

Light

Tasting notes

black cherry, dried date, molasses

Fermentation

—

Drying

—

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

—

Why some details are blank

individual farms and contributorsThe coffee is documented at the Samaniego-area collective level; individual contributing farms or farmers are not named.
exact scalar elevationThe source publishes a 1,700–1,800 m range, so the range is preserved in text rather than converted to an invented point value.
cultivar proportionsCastillo and Colombia are verified, but their proportions are not published.
origin processing protocolThe coffee is identified as washed, but fermentation time, washing sequence, drying surface, and drying duration are not disclosed.
decaffeination parametersDESCAFECOL and sugarcane-derived ethyl acetate are verified, but the exact solvent-contact, steaming, and drying parameters are not published for this lot.
consumer price and currencyThe archive publishes a green-coffee FOB price, not the retail bag price or consumer currency configuration.
numeric public sentiment ratingThe one qualifying independent exact-name source is qualitative and too small a sample to support a numeric average.

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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.

01
The name on the bag
Decaf K’uychi
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Counter Culture Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Field Blend
Documented
05
The farm
K’uychi
Named on the bag
06
The farmer
K'uychi producers
Documented
07
The region
Nariño
Documented
08
The country
🇨🇴Colombia
Documented

From the producer

K'uychi is a collective brand for smallholder producers in the Samaniego area of Nariño, not a single farm.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a specialty roaster focused on sustainable and transparent sourcing, providing detailed information about their coffee origins and partnerships.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The coffee was decaffeinated in Colombia by Descafecol using ethyl acetate derived from sugarcane, preserving a traceable origin and a distinct light-roast profile.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Built the missing editorial profile

Added four sections covering the collective origin, variety mix, origin processing, DESCAFECOL decaffeination, price transparency, taste, and public evidence.

Connected the mixed-variety record

Linked the existing Field Blend record for the verified Castillo and Colombia mix; no new variety or farm was created.

Separated process stages

Kept the washed origin process distinct from the later sugarcane-derived ethyl acetate decaffeination step.

Added bounded public sentiment

Recorded one exact-name independent qualitative comment with its URL and method, while leaving the numeric rating and average blank.

What was added?

Editorial narrative, unknown-field explanations, the existing Field Blend relationship, $4.50/lb FOB context, and one transparent qualitative public-sentiment source.

What wasn't added?

No individual farm, contributor list, cultivar proportions, detailed fermentation/drying or decaffeination parameters, retail price, or numeric public sentiment rating was inferred.

Why it matters

The page now distinguishes the coffee’s farm-level processing from its Colombian decaffeination step and makes the very small sentiment sample explicit.

What you might taste

Black cherry, dried date, and molasses, based on Counter Culture’s tasting notes.

Sources for these process claims

· https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/decaf-k-uychi
· https://www.reddit.com/r/Coffee/comments/1cxwjqh/mod_the_daily_question_thread/

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

What the internet is saying

WE FOUND 1 RELEVANT PUBLIC SOURCES

AI-synthesized from publicly available information retrieved 2026-10-12. This is research, not our original tasting review.

What the sources say

One independent exact-name tasting comment was positive, but the sample is too small for a representative rating.

What people love

The commenter called Decaf K’uychi good and preferred it to Counter Culture’s Slow Motion decaf.

Flavors people keep mentioning

goodpreferred to Slow Motion decaf

Internet sentiment

A qualitative summary of public sources, including context. Not a coffee score.

Limited positive signal

The sources

Public discussion
Reddit r/Coffee
A commenter who had tried Decaf K’uychi called it good and preferred it to Counter Culture’s Slow Motion decaf.
Source

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

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