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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Mate Matiwos; Keramo, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Mate Matiwos; Keramo; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Mate Matiwos; Keramo; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Mate Matiwos; Keramo; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇪🇹Ethiopia · Bensa

Mate Matiwos; Keramo

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsEthiopiaBensaJARC 74158HoneyLight roastBergamotArabicaSingle originMate Matiwos — Keramo FarmMate MatiwosSey CoffeeIndependent
🇪🇹EthiopiaHoneyJARC 74158Light roast
Brand
SEY Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇪🇹Ethiopia
Region
Bensa
Town
Keramo
Farm / Station
Mate Matiwos — Keramo Farm
Farmer / Producer
Mate Matiwos
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
JARC 74158
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
berries, tropical fruit, bergamot
Fermentation
No separate fermentation duration is published; the coffee was depulped quickly with a small amount of mucilage intentionally retained.
Drying
Dried on shaded beds with mucilage intact until moisture content reached approximately 10%.
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • gradeThe exact release does not publish a standardized green-coffee grade.
  • fermentation durationThe exact page describes depulping and mucilage retention but does not state a timed fermentation stage.
  • roast dateA retailer lists a September 8 batch date, but no bag-specific roast date is established for the profile as a whole.
  • scoreNo original Who Makes The Best Coffee tasting score has been recorded.
  • public sentiment ratingNo verified independent exact-release tasting rating with a transparent method and source count was found.
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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
    Mate Matiwos; Keramo
  2. 02
    The brand
    SEY Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Sey Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    JARC 74158
  5. 05
    The farm
    Mate Matiwos — Keramo Farm
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Mate Matiwos
  7. 07
    The region
    Bensa
  8. 08
    The country
    🇪🇹Ethiopia
From the producer

Mate Matiwos is the named single-farm producer for this Keramo lot. Crop to Cup documents him in Bensa and distinguishes his Keramo and Danche farms from coffee supplied by registered outgrowers.

From the roaster

SEY identifies this as its first year buying Mate Matiwos's coffee and publishes the exact variety, location, elevation, harvest and post-harvest steps.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A highly traceable first-year SEY purchase from Mate Matiwos, documenting one producer, one Keramo farm, JARC 74158 genetics and a shaded-bed honey process.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Corrected the elevation

Retained SEY’s exact 2,300 m figure.

02
Connected the documented chain

Linked Bensa, the Keramo farm, Mate Matiwos, JARC 74158, and honey processing.

03
Separated green and retail pricing

Removed the tracker-derived retail price and package size because SEY publishes only green-coffee FOB and DDP costs.

What was added?

Verified region, farm, producer, variety, process, altitude, harvest, drying, availability, and tasting notes.

What wasn't added?

No retail price, package weight, conventional roast level, timed fermentation duration, or public rating was inferred.

Why it matters

The profile now distinguishes the retail product from SEY’s green-coffee supply-chain cost disclosure.

What you might taste

Berries, tropical fruit, and bergamot.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2026-mate-matiwos-keramo-ethiopia
  • · https://www.croptocup.com/community/mate-matiwos/
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 2026-11-04) 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-release catalog and retailer pages were used only for price, package, roast, and availability metadata. Cherrybook’s 63 index is explicitly an evidence-of-quality index rather than a cup score; its general SEY Reddit sentiment and coverage do not evaluate this exact lot. Reviews of other Mate Matiwos coffees or releases were excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Mate Matiwos — Keramo Farm →Meet the farmer: Mate Matiwos →
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