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🇺🇬Uganda · Mount Elgon (Uganda)

Kabeywa

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website
TagsUgandaMount Elgon (Uganda)WashedLight roastArabicaSingle originMultiple farms in Kabeywa villageKawacomCounter Culture CoffeeIndependentSmallholder collective lotVariety undisclosed
🇺🇬UgandaWashedField BlendLight roast
Brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇺🇬Uganda
Region
Mount Elgon (Uganda)
Town
Kapchorwa
Farm / Station
Multiple farms in Kabeywa village
Farmer / Producer
Kawacom
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Field Blend
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
stone fruit, citrus, chocolate
Fermentation
18 hours dry fermentation after pulping, followed by a 48-hour water soak with an additional wash and water change after 24 hours
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • farmThis is a community lot from multiple farms in Kabeywa village; individual farms are not named.
  • altitude mThe source publishes a 1,800–1,900 m range, which cannot be represented honestly as one scalar altitude.
  • varietySL-14 and SL-28 are disclosed, but their proportions are not.
  • drying methodThe exact product page does not publish the drying method or duration.
  • price usdThe archived sold-out product page does not expose a verified retail price.
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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.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Kabeywa
  2. 02
    The brand
    Counter Culture Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Counter Culture Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Field Blend
  5. 05
    The farm
    Multiple farms in Kabeywa village
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Kawacom
  7. 07
    The region
    Mount Elgon (Uganda)
  8. 08
    The country
    🇺🇬Uganda
From the producer

Kawacom sourced this community lot from farms in Kabeywa and processed it at the company’s Mount Elgon washing station under quality manager Deus Nsubuga.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a specialty roaster focused on transparency and direct-trade relationships, providing detailed information about the origins and profiles of their coffees.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The product page documents a community-specific Kabeywa lot and a detailed extended washing protocol at Kawacom’s station.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Verified the exact release

Confirmed community identity, Kawacom station, harvest, altitude range, varieties, fermentation and soak sequence, roast, notes, certifications, and availability.

02
Connected the mixed-variety record

Linked the existing Field Blend record while retaining SL-14 and SL-28 in the release-specific text.

03
Rejected an ambiguous rating

Excluded a 4.5/5 Kabeywa review because it lacks a harvest or release identifier for this recurring coffee.

What was added?

Structured review sections, a Field Blend relationship, exact processing detail, explicit unknowns, and refreshed research metadata.

What wasn't added?

No individual farm or grower, cultivar percentage, scalar altitude, drying method, retail price, or sentiment score was inferred.

Why it matters

The profile now preserves a detailed community-lot process while keeping recurring-release sentiment and missing farm identities separate.

What you might taste

Stone fruit, citrus, and chocolate.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/kabeywa
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 2026-10-12) 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

CoffeeRoast.com lists one 4.5/5 review for Counter Culture Kabeywa with matching origin, varieties, process, and roast, but the review provides no harvest or release identifier for this recurring seasonal coffee; it was excluded from exact-release sentiment scoring. A 2019 Kabeywa write-up and nonscored catalog/café mentions were also excluded as different-release or unverifiable.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farmer: Kawacom →
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