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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Costa Rica El Congo Geisha, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Costa Rica El Congo Geisha; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Costa Rica El Congo Geisha; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Costa Rica El Congo Geisha; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇨🇷Costa Rica · Tarrazú

Costa Rica El Congo Geisha

Roasted by Intelligentsia CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsCosta RicaTarrazúGeshaHoneyApricotOrangeBergamotArabicaSingle originEl CongoEfrén Armando Rodríguez BadillaIntelligentsia CoffeeOwned by Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
🇨🇷Costa RicaHoneyGesha
Brand
Intelligentsia Coffee
Who owns the brand
A large corporation — Peet's Coffee (JAB Holding Company)
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇨🇷Costa Rica
Region
Tarrazú
Town
Santa María de Dota
Farm / Station
El Congo
Farmer / Producer
Efrén Armando Rodríguez Badilla
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Gesha
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
apricot, pear, orange, bergamot
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • harvestNo exact crop year or harvest dates were verified; COOPEDOTA’s general December–January peak was not copied to this release.
  • fermentationHoney processing is stated, but no fermentation duration, vessel or honey style is disclosed.
  • drying methodNo exact-release drying method was verified.
  • roast levelNo conventional roast category was published for the exact release.
  • gradeNo formal green-coffee grade was published for the exact release.
  • roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is available.
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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
    Costa Rica El Congo Geisha
  2. 02
    The brand
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Intelligentsia Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Gesha
  5. 05
    The farm
    El Congo
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Efrén Armando Rodríguez Badilla
  7. 07
    The region
    Tarrazú
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇷Costa Rica
From the producer

Efrén Armando Rodríguez Badilla grew this tiny Geisha lot at his El Congo farm, 1,850 m above Santa María de Dota. COOPEDOTA kept the farm lot separate and honey processed it as part of the cooperative’s exotic-variety and microlot program.

From the roaster

Intelligentsia highlights this coffee for its delicate Geisha characteristics, featuring a balanced sweetness and a distinct Earl Grey tea-like profile with bergamot notes.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A tiny, 50-bag archived honey-process Gesha from Efrén Armando Rodríguez Badilla’s El Congo farm. Intelligentsia’s campaign placed the farm at 1,850 m, while exact-product archives identify COOPEDOTA as the processor and document an original $30 / 340 g offer.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Resolved archived offer and elevation

Added the exact $30 / 340 g offer and 1,850 m lot elevation from exact-release catalog and campaign archives.

02
Clarified producer and processor roles

Retained Efrén Armando Rodríguez Badilla and El Congo as the grower and farm, while recording COOPEDOTA as the honey-process and lot-separation partner.

03
Preserved source variance

Kept the archived apricot, pear, orange and bergamot note set distinct from the current dried-apricot, bergamot and honey catalog summary.

What was added?

Exact archived retail price, elevation, COOPEDOTA processing attribution, 50-bag release context and refreshed provenance.

What wasn't added?

No crop year, exact harvest dates, honey style, fermentation duration, drying method, formal grade, conventional roast category or bag-specific roast date was verified.

Why it matters

The profile now distinguishes farm, grower and processing-cooperative roles while filling exact-release commercial and elevation data without borrowing protocols from other COOPEDOTA lots.

What you might taste

Intelligentsia’s archived release copy emphasizes honeyed sweetness, apricot, pear, orange and Earl Grey-like bergamot; Cherrybook’s exact catalog summarizes dried apricot, bergamot and honey.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://intelligentsia.com/products/costa-rica-el-congo-geisha
  • · https://www.bestqualitycoffee.com/product/costa-rica-el-congo-geisha-2
  • · https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/intelligentsia-costa-rica-el-congo-geisha
  • · https://www.messageduck.com/gallery/costa
  • · https://www.intelligentsia.com/pages/costa-rica-origin
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 2026-10-28) 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

Best Quality Coffee’s exact page contains zero reviews. Cherrybook’s 65 is explicitly an evidence-of-quality index rather than a cup score, and its cited Reddit discussion concerns Intelligentsia generally rather than this coffee. Both are excluded from sentiment arithmetic.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: El Congo →Meet the farmer: Efrén Armando Rodríguez Badilla →
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