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🇪🇨Ecuador

Yacuri

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsEcuador Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe Washed Light roast Brown Sugar Apricot Almond Arabica Single origin Yacuri National Park periphery Smallholder growers near Yacuri National Park Counter Culture Coffee Independent

🇪🇨EcuadorWashedField BlendLight roast

Brand

Counter Culture Coffee

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇪🇨Ecuador

Region

Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe

Town

—

Farm / Station

Yacuri National Park periphery

Farmer / Producer

Smallholder growers near Yacuri National Park

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Field Blend

Process

Roast

Light

Tasting notes

brown sugar, apricot, almond

Fermentation

—

Drying

—

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

—

Why some details are blank

region idThe lot spans Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe; one region relationship would misstate the two-province origin, so both remain in the documented subregion field.
altitude mCounter Culture publishes a broad 1,100–1,800 meter range, not a point elevation.
farm idThe exact release names no single farm and should not be connected to Juan Peña’s separate Yacuri project.
fermentationThe official page classifies the coffee as washed but does not publish fermentation details.
drying methodThe official page does not publish the drying surface, duration, or moisture target.
producer detailIndividual grower names and contribution percentages are not published.
roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is available.
public sentimentNo independent review could be matched to this exact Counter Culture 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
Yacuri
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
Yacuri National Park periphery
Documented
06
The farmer
Smallholder growers near Yacuri National Park
Documented
07
The region
Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe
Named on the bag
08
The country
🇪🇨Ecuador
Documented

From the producer

This release comes from a group of smallholder growers around Yacuri National Park in Ecuador's Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces. Counter Culture names Caravela Coffee as its export partner, not as the producer.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a specialty roaster based in North Carolina that focuses on direct partnerships with farmers and sustainable sourcing practices.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The coffee connects organic smallholder agroforestry with the protected forest landscape surrounding Yacuri National Park, while keeping Caravela's export role separate from production.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Community aggregation

The release combines coffee from a group of unnamed growers around Yacuri National Park.

Cultivation

The growers manage organic agroforestry systems; Caravela helped the group obtain organic certification in 2023.

Processing

Counter Culture classifies the lot as washed but does not publish fermentation, washing, or drying details.

What was added?

Nothing disclosed.

What wasn't added?

Counter Culture states that its tasting-note language does not indicate added flavoring.

Why it matters

The multi-grower structure and organic agroforestry context are verified, while undocumented lot-level processing remains explicitly unknown.

What you might taste

Counter Culture lists brown sugar, round almond tones, and a dried-apricot finish.

Sources for these process claims

· https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/yacuri

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.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Yacuri National Park periphery →Meet the farmer: Smallholder growers near Yacuri National Park →

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Yacuri

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

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