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🇳🇮Nicaragua · Matagalpa

Finca Aurora – Anaerobic Java

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website

EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS

TagsNicaragua Matagalpa Java Anaerobic Light roast Apricot Honey flavor Black Tea Arabica Single origin Finca Aurora, Matagalpa Dr. Enrique Ferrufino Counter Culture Coffee Independent

🇳🇮NicaraguaAnaerobicJavaLight roast

Brand

Counter Culture Coffee

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇳🇮Nicaragua

Region

Matagalpa

Town

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Farm / Station

Finca Aurora, Matagalpa

Farmer / Producer

Dr. Enrique Ferrufino

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Java

Process

Roast

Light

Tasting notes

dried apricot, honey, tea-like

Fermentation

Ripe cherry was floated, depulped and fermented for 60 hours in sealed tanks.

Drying

African-style raised beds; Counter Culture does not publish a drying duration for this lot.

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

harvestNot published in the verified exact-release sources.
altitude mNot published in the verified exact-release sources.
drying durationAfrican-style raised-bed drying is documented, but its duration is not published.
roast dateNo bag-specific roast date was available.
gradeNo formal green-coffee grade was published for this release.

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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
Finca Aurora – Anaerobic Java
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Counter Culture Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Java
Documented
05
The farm
Finca Aurora, Matagalpa
Documented
06
The farmer
Dr. Enrique Ferrufino
Documented
07
The region
Matagalpa
Documented
08
The country
🇳🇮Nicaragua
Documented

From the producer

Dr. Enrique Ferrufino and the Ferrufino family have operated Finca Aurora near Matagalpa since acquiring it in 2004. The estate is carbon neutral, operates its own dry mill and maintains more than half its land as natural reserve.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a B Corp certified roaster known for its focus on transparency, sustainability, and direct relationships with coffee producers.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This release combines a named producer and exact Nicaraguan farm with a single Java variety, a documented 60-hour sealed-tank fermentation and raised-bed drying.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Reverified exact identity

Confirmed the Nicaraguan Finca Aurora, Ferrufino family, Java variety, and sold-out release.

Confirmed process detail

Documented flotation, depulping, 60 hours in sealed tanks, and African-style raised-bed drying from the official product page.

Added historical retail evidence

Coffee List, coffeeDB, and Cherrybook independently corroborate a $22 retail price; Coffee List and Cherrybook specify 12 oz/340 g.

Checked sentiment

Coffee List reports zero ratings; coffeeDB is catalog metadata; Cherrybook's 62 index is explicitly an evidence-of-quality composite, not a cup score.

What was added?

Verified historical $22/12 oz pricing and refreshed exact-release sourcing, process documentation, and evidence boundaries.

What wasn't added?

No altitude, harvest date, drying duration, Java subtype, public sentiment score, or owner tasting score was added because exact evidence does not support those fields.

Why it matters

The record now distinguishes the retail bag price from Counter Culture's $3.54/lb FOB green-coffee price and preserves the lot's exact Java identity without inferring Java Enano.

What you might taste

Counter Culture publishes dried apricot, honey, and a tea-like mouthfeel.

Sources for these process claims

· https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/finca-aurora-anaerobic-java
· https://www.coffeelist.co/b/counter-culture-coffee/finca-aurora-anaerobic-java
· https://www.coffeedb.pro/roasters/counter-culture-coffee
· https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/counter-culture-finca-aurora-anaerobic-java

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 2026-10-25) 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

Non-exact, seller, directory, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded. No qualifying independent exact-release review remains.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Finca Aurora, Matagalpa →Meet the farmer: Dr. Enrique Ferrufino →

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

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