Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for La Golondrina – Honey Processed, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

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🇨🇴Colombia · Cauca

La Golondrina – Honey Processed

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsColombia Cauca Castillo Caturra Honey Light roast Cherry Lime Caramel Arabica Single origin Orgánica cooperative Counter Culture Coffee Independent

🇨🇴ColombiaHoneyLight roast

Brand

Counter Culture Coffee

Roaster website

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Country

🇨🇴Colombia

Region

Cauca

Town

Timbío

Farm / Station

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Farmer / Producer

Orgánica cooperative

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Castillo and Caturra

Process

Roast

Light

Tasting notes

black cherry, lime, caramel

Fermentation

Depulped and fermented overnight; dried without washing so the mucilage remained on the seed

Drying

Raised beds; turned frequently for the first 5 days, then slow-dried undisturbed for 30 days

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

farm idThe exact release is attributed to Orgánica’s member network; no single contributing farm is identified.
variety idThe lot combines Castillo and Caturra, so no single variety relationship accurately represents it.
altitude mThe source gives a 1,500–2,000 m range; a single point value would be misleading.
producer attributionThe drying account names Ausberto without enough identity or farm detail to create or attach a separate producer record safely.
roast dateRoast date is bag-specific and unavailable for this sold-out 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
La Golondrina – Honey Processed
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Counter Culture Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Castillo and Caturra
Named on the bag
05
The farm
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
06
The farmer
Orgánica cooperative
Documented
07
The region
Cauca
Documented
08
The country
🇨🇴Colombia
Documented

From the producer

Founded in 2005 by Cauca producers led by community organizers Nelson Melo and Liliana Pabón, Orgánica has 150 members across Timbío, Guayabal, and Piendamó. Counter Culture has worked with the cooperative since 2007.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a specialty roaster known for its focus on transparency, ethical sourcing, and precision roasting techniques.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This limited release applies honey processing to Counter Culture’s long-running La Golondrina partnership. The roaster documents Castillo and Caturra grown at 1,500–2,000 meters and a carefully managed 30-day raised-bed dry.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Matched the current honey release

Corrected the old tasting profile to the official 2025 release notes: black cherry, lime, and caramel.

Documented origin and processing

Added the Cauca region link, May–July 2025 harvest, Castillo/Caturra composition, overnight fermentation, and raised-bed drying protocol.

Kept sentiment separate

Excluded non-cup quality indexes, unrated catalogs, and generic roaster sentiment, leaving the exact-release public rating empty.

What was added?

Current-release description, region relationship, harvest, exact varieties in research, fermentation, drying method, and conventional process classification.

What wasn't added?

No single farm, midpoint altitude, original tasting score, or public sentiment rating was added.

Why it matters

The page describes the documented 2025 honey lot rather than carrying the classic washed La Golondrina profile into a different process release.

What you might taste

Black cherry, lime, and caramel.

Sources for these process claims

· https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/la-golondrina-honey
· https://counterculturecoffee.com/blogs/counter-culture-coffee/coffee-basics-honey-processing-2

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 farmer: Orgánica cooperative →

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La Golondrina – Honey Processed

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

What the internet is saying about this coffee

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