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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Colombia El Estoraque Honey, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Colombia El Estoraque Honey; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Colombia El Estoraque Honey; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Colombia El Estoraque Honey; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇨🇴Colombia · Nariño

Colombia El Estoraque Honey

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website
EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS
TagsColombiaNariñoHoneyCaramelArabicaSingle originEl EstoraqueYeison Libardo LópezIntelligentsia CoffeeOwned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)

Not tasted. Not scored.

🇨🇴ColombiaHoney
Brand
Intelligentsia Coffee
Who owns the brand
A large corporation — Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇨🇴Colombia
Region
Nariño
Town
Buesaco
Farm / Station
El Estoraque
Farmer / Producer
Yeison Libardo López
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
—
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
caramel, stone fruit
Fermentation
Extended anaerobic fermentation; duration not disclosed
Drying
Covered raised beds
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • VARIETYNeither exact source identifies the cultivar for this release.
  • HARVESTNo crop year or harvest window is published for this exact lot.
  • FERMENTATION DURATIONIntelligentsia calls the anaerobic fermentation extended but does not publish its duration.
  • ROAST LEVELThe exact primary page does not state a conventional roast category.
  • FORMAL GRADESpecial Selection language is not a formal green-coffee grade; none is published.
  • PUBLIC SENTIMENT RATINGNo independent exact-release cup review qualified; Cherrybook’s CBI is explicitly an evidence-quality score, not a cup score.
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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
    Colombia El Estoraque Honey
  2. 02
    The brand
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Not disclosed
  5. 05
    The farm
    El Estoraque
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Yeison Libardo López
  7. 07
    The region
    Nariño
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇴Colombia
From the producer

Yeison Libardo López is a multigenerational grower at El Estoraque in Buesaco, Nariño. Intelligentsia credits his knowledge and infrastructure with turning the farm’s high altitude, volcanic soils, and marked day-night temperature swings into distinctive lots.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia is a specialty coffee roaster that sources this lot from the Nariño region, emphasizing the producer's ability to capitalize on ideal growing conditions to create distinct, high-quality coffee lots.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This release departs from Nariño’s common washed preparation. Leaving fruit on the depulped seed during an extended anaerobic fermentation, followed by one wash and covered-bed drying, is intended to add tangy sweetness while preserving balance and clarity.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Retained fruit during depulping

The skin was removed while some coffee fruit remained attached.

02
Extended anaerobic fermentation

The depulped coffee fermented without oxygen for an undisclosed period.

03
Single wash and covered-bed drying

The lot was washed once, then dried on covered raised beds.

What was added?

No external ingredient is disclosed; retained coffee fruit is intrinsic to this honey process.

What wasn't added?

No cultivar, crop year, fermentation duration, conventional roast level, formal grade or outside cup score was inferred.

Why it matters

The process explains the roaster’s emphasis on tangy sweetness, balance and clarity without overstating undocumented controls.

What you might taste

The live roaster page says Caramel + Stone Fruit; an archived catalog capture records a separate earlier note set.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/products/colombia-el-estoraque-honey
  • · https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-colombia-el-estoraque-honey
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 2026-10-31) 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

Method: searches required an independent tasting of this exact El Estoraque release. Cherrybook’s exact page is a catalog and explicitly labels its CBI as evidence-of-quality coverage, not a cup score; its Reddit signal is roaster-level rather than exact-coffee sentiment. Generic honey-process articles and other producers’ El Estoraque lots were excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: El Estoraque →Meet the farmer: Yeison Libardo López →
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