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🇺🇬Uganda · Mount Elgon (Uganda)

Sipi - Natural Sundried

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website
TagsUgandaMount Elgon (Uganda)NaturalLight roastArabicaSingle originMultiple farming communities on Mount ElgonKawacomCounter Culture CoffeeIndependentSmallholder collective lotVariety undisclosed
🇺🇬UgandaNaturalField BlendLight roast
Brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇺🇬Uganda
Region
Mount Elgon (Uganda)
Town
Kapchorwa
Farm / Station
Multiple farming communities on Mount Elgon
Farmer / Producer
Kawacom
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Field Blend
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Concord grape, chocolate, juicy body
Fermentation
—
Drying
Slowly sundried on raised beds and turned frequently
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • farmThis is a multi-farm community lot; Counter Culture does not name individual contributing farms.
  • altitude mThe exact page publishes a 1,500–2,000 m range, which cannot be represented honestly as one scalar altitude.
  • varietySL-28, SL-14, and Nyasaland/Bugisu are disclosed, but their proportions are not.
  • drying methodRaised-bed drying and frequent turning are disclosed, but the drying duration is not.
  • price usdThe archived sold-out roaster 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
    Sipi - Natural Sundried
  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 farming communities on Mount Elgon
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Kawacom
  7. 07
    The region
    Mount Elgon (Uganda)
  8. 08
    The country
    🇺🇬Uganda
From the producer

Kawacom sourced ripe Arabica cherries from farming communities on Mount Elgon and managed the natural sundried processing for this multi-farm lot.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a Durham-based roaster focused on sustainability, transparency, and quality-driven sourcing.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The exact product page documents a natural process built around cherry float sorting and controlled raised-bed drying for a multi-farm Mount Elgon lot.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Verified the exact release

Confirmed origin, producer organization, harvest, altitude range, varieties, natural process, float sorting, raised-bed drying, roast, notes, certification, FOB price, and availability.

02
Connected the mixed-variety record

Linked the existing Field Blend record while retaining the exact SL-28, SL-14, and Nyasaland/Bugisu composition in release-specific text.

03
Documented disclosure limits

Kept farm, individual grower, cultivar proportion, drying-duration, and retail-price gaps explicit.

What was added?

Structured editorial sections, a Field Blend relationship, exact process detail, refreshed source research, and explicit unknowns.

What wasn't added?

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

Why it matters

The profile now represents a controlled natural-process community lot without turning a multi-farm, mixed-cultivar release into a single estate or genetic variety.

What you might taste

Concord grape, chocolate, and a juicy body.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/sipi-natural-sundried
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

Exact-title searches checked professional reviews, consumer reviews, forums, and exact-coffee catalog pages. Results were limited to Counter Culture's own listing and nonscored catalog or directory entries; all were excluded from public sentiment scoring.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farmer: Kawacom →
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