Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for La Papaya Sidra, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for La Papaya Sidra; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇪🇨Ecuador · Saraguro

La Papaya Sidra

Roasted by 49th Parallel Coffee RoastersRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsEcuador Saraguro Sidra Washed Medium-Light roast Apricot Black Tea Honey flavor Arabica Single origin Hacienda La Papaya Juan Peña 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters

🇪🇨EcuadorWashedSidraMedium-Light roast

Brand

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Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇪🇨Ecuador

Region

Saraguro

Town

Saraguro

Farm / Station

Hacienda La Papaya

Farmer / Producer

Juan Peña

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Sidra

Process

Roast

Medium-Light

Tasting notes

Apricot, Black Tea, Honey

Fermentation

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Drying

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Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

altitude mThe roaster publishes a 1,800–2,200 m range; no midpoint was invented.
harvestThe current product page does not state a harvest year.
drying methodThe current product page does not state the drying method.
fermentationNo separate fermentation protocol is disclosed.
roast dateThe current product page does not state a roast date.

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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 Papaya Sidra
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
03
The roaster
49th Parallel Coffee Roasters
Documented
04
The variety
Sidra
Documented
05
The farm
Hacienda La Papaya
Documented
06
The farmer
Juan Peña
Documented
07
The region
Saraguro
Documented
08
The country
🇪🇨Ecuador
Documented

From the producer

Juan Peña is a pioneering producer in the Loja region who has transformed Ecuador's specialty coffee identity through precise agricultural practices and innovation. His farm, Hacienda La Papaya, is situated in the high-altitude Andean highlands, providing ideal conditions for slow cherry maturation.

From the roaster

This washed Sidra is described as a refined and expressive filter coffee that offers a bright, clean, and layered profile. It features notes of honey, apricot, citrus peel, and black tea, resulting in a polished structure with a soft sweetness and a clean, tea-like finish.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This coffee is produced by Juan Peña at Hacienda La Papaya, a farm recognized for its precision agriculture and use of the Andean minga tradition of communal labor. The Sidra variety is grown at high altitudes in the Saraguro region, where the combination of volcanic clay loam soil and a dry tropical Andean climate contributes to the cup's distinct clarity and floral brightness.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Washed process

The roaster identifies the Sidra lot as washed; the current page does not disclose enough detail to add fermentation or drying specifics.

What was added?

No added ingredient is disclosed.

What wasn't added?

The roaster does not describe fruit, spice or flavor additions.

Why it matters

The washed process is verified while more granular processing claims remain intentionally unfilled.

What you might taste

49th Parallel lists apricot, black tea and honey, and describes citrus peel and delicate florals in the cup narrative.

Sources for these process claims

· https://49thcoffee.com/collections/all/products/ecuador-la-papaya-sidra-filter-roast-coffee

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 2026-10-14) 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

No qualifying independent exact-release cup rating was found. Cherrybook’s evidence-of-quality index was excluded because it is explicitly not a cup score, and roaster-owned or catalog pages were excluded from public sentiment.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Hacienda La Papaya →Meet the farmer: Juan Peña →

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