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

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Kapsokisio; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Kapsokisio; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Kapsokisio; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇰🇪Kenya · Mount Elgon (Kenya)

Kapsokisio

Roasted by Tim WendelboeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsKenyaMount Elgon (Kenya)WashedRoseArabicaSingle originKapsokisio wet millTim Wendelboe
🇰🇪KenyaWashedField Blend
Brand
—
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇰🇪Kenya
Region
Mount Elgon (Kenya)
Town
—
Farm / Station
Kapsokisio wet mill
Farmer / Producer
Kapsokisio wet mill - several hundred smallholder farmers
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Field Blend
Process
Roast
—
Tasting notes
Rose hips, Hibiscus, Red berries
Fermentation
Dry fermented 12-16 hours overnight
Drying
Raised tables 10-14 days
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • altitude mThe exact roaster page does not publish one release-specific elevation; the wet mill's 1,900 m profile is not copied into the coffee as a lot point.
  • contributing farmsThe roaster identifies several hundred Mount Elgon smallholders but does not name their individual farms.
  • SL28/SL34 percentagesThe roaster groups SL28 and SL34 within the roughly 10% non-K7 portion without separate shares.
  • roast levelThe roaster does not publish one conventional roast label; Kofio places the product in a Light to Medium-Light range, so no single tag is asserted.
  • availabilityThe direct roaster product URL returned 404 on 2026-11-05 while recent indexed listings still showed the coffee; current stock status is unresolved.
  • current-harvest public sentimentThe exact independent ratings are historical or not crop-dated and cannot be assigned specifically to the December 2025 harvest.
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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
    Kapsokisio
  2. 02
    The brand
    Not disclosed
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Tim Wendelboe
  4. 04
    The variety
    Field Blend
  5. 05
    The farm
    Kapsokisio wet mill
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Kapsokisio wet mill - several hundred smallholder farmers
  7. 07
    The region
    Mount Elgon (Kenya)
  8. 08
    The country
    🇰🇪Kenya
From the producer

The coffee is grown by several hundred smallholder farmers in the Mount Elgon region. Most farmers focus on the K7 cultivar, with some also producing SL28 and SL34 varieties.

From the roaster

This Kenyan coffee from the Kapsokisio wet mill has intense flavours of rose hips, hibiscus and fresh red berries. About 90% of the delivering farmers grow the K7 cultivar, a 1936 Scott Laboratories selection related to the Bourbon group.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

About 90% of the farmers delivering to the Kapsokisio wet mill grow K7, a 1936 Scott Laboratories selection related to the Bourbon group - a variety almost never seen as a distinct lot outside Kenya's western highlands. That, plus Mount Elgon's growing conditions, makes this taste unlike the SL-driven coffees of central Kenya: rose hips and hibiscus rather than blackcurrant. Tim Wendelboe has bought from the mill since 2012 and, with about $10,000 raised from customers in 2013, funded new drying beds that still underpin quality today.

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

What the internet is saying
WE FOUND 3 RELEVANT PUBLIC SOURCES

AI-synthesized from publicly available information retrieved 2026-11-05. This is research, not our original tasting review.

What the sources say

Exact-product public evidence is positive: Kofio reports 4.5/5 from two votes with 100% recommendation, Jesper Hedemann recorded 5/6, and Fellow's qualitative brew guide describes crisp red-fruit and floral character. None of these sources is verified as a review of the December 2025 harvest.

What people love

Kofio's verified-customer page shows 100% recommendation, with one 2025 reviewer saying it was better than the prior year. Jesper Hedemann gave the exact washed K7/SL28/SL34 coffee 5/6. Fellow highlighted crisp fruit with rose hip, hibiscus and red berries.

What people don't

No specific criticism was published in the three qualifying exact-product sources; the small sample and mixed release dates limit confidence.

Flavors people keep mentioning
Rose hipsHibiscusRed berriesCrisp fruit
Outside ratings & rankings

Scores remain on their original scales. An outside review, competition score or historical release is not our tasting and cannot safely be merged into one five-star rating.Our method

Public sentiment estimate

2 separate publishers · qualitative evidence

Public sentiment only. Kofio's 4.5/5 aggregate normalizes to 90.0 across two votes; Jesper Hedemann's 5/6 normalizes to 83.3 across one tasting. The weighted mean across three underlying evaluations is (90×2 + 83.3)/3 = 87.8. This is a source-attributed editorial interpretation, not an independently measured coffee rating or our tasting. Historical observations cannot establish the quality of the current crop.

Method: Linear normalization to 100, weighted by each source's disclosed evaluation count; 2 numeric sources, 3 underlying evaluations. Fellow's unscored feature is excluded.

Internet sentiment

A qualitative summary of public sources, including context. Not a coffee score.

Positive, limited historical exact-product evidence
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