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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 Dwight Aguilar Masias; Yellow Gesha* - Peru; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 Dwight Aguilar Masias; Yellow Gesha* - Peru; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 Dwight Aguilar Masias; Yellow Gesha* - Peru; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2026 Dwight Aguilar Masias; Yellow Gesha* - Peru; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇵🇪Peru · Cusco

2026 Dwight Aguilar Masias; Yellow Gesha* - Peru

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsPeruCuscoYellow Gesha* (working namegenetics unconfirmed)WashedJasmineArabicaSingle originFinca Nueva AlianzaDwight Aguilar MasiasSey CoffeeIndependent
🇵🇪PeruWashed
Brand
SEY Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇵🇪Peru
Region
Cusco
Town
Santa Teresa
Farm / Station
Finca Nueva Alianza
Farmer / Producer
Dwight Aguilar Masias
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Yellow Gesha* (working name; genetics unconfirmed)
Process
Roast
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Tasting notes
jasmine, lilac, soft tropical fruit, melon
Fermentation
Held in cherry for 24 hours, then dry-fermented for 36 hours after depulping
Drying
Dried on raised beds for 20 days to approximately 10% moisture
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • variety idSEY says Yellow Gesha* is a working name for yellow-fruiting plants whose Gesha identity had not yet been genetically confirmed.
  • gradeThe exact release is specialty coffee, but no formal green grade is published; the structured grade is therefore Not specified.
  • roast levelSEY's exact product page does not state a conventional roast level; no value is inferred from roaster style or catalog labels.
  • owner bag roast dateThe exact public thread identifies a February 16 roast date for that participant's bag, not the owner's bag.
  • normalized public ratingThe only numeric values are three brew-method ratings from one commenter, not independent product scores from multiple reviewers.
  • owner tasting inputNo owner tasting observations, score, verdict, or approval are recorded for this coffee.
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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
    2026 Dwight Aguilar Masias; Yellow Gesha* - Peru
  2. 02
    The brand
    SEY Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Sey Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Yellow Gesha* (working name; genetics unconfirmed)
  5. 05
    The farm
    Finca Nueva Alianza
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Dwight Aguilar Masias
  7. 07
    The region
    Cusco
  8. 08
    The country
    🇵🇪Peru
From the producer

Dwight Aguilar Masias is a third-generation producer at Finca Nueva Alianza in Santa Teresa, Cusco, and Peru's first two-time Cup of Excellence winner. He is closely associated with the yellow-fruiting coffee marketed as Yellow Gesha*, but SEY stated that its Gesha genetics were still unconfirmed.

From the roaster

Sey Coffee is a Brooklyn-based micro-roastery focused on sourcing and roasting complex, dynamic coffees while fostering long-term relationships throughout the supply chain.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

SEY described this as its highest-scoring selection from a Peru sourcing trip. The farm's washed yellow-fruiting lot placed fifth in the 2025 Peru Cup of Excellence, but SEY explicitly says the working name Yellow Gesha* remains genetically unconfirmed.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Verified the exact release

Confirmed producer, farm, Santa Teresa/Cusco, 1,900 m, November 2025 harvest, price, size and sold-out status.

02
Documented the full process

Recorded 24 hours in cherry, flotation, depulping, 36 hours of dry fermentation and 20-day raised-bed drying to about 10% moisture.

03
Preserved genetic uncertainty

Kept Yellow Gesha* as a working release name and left the structured variety empty because SEY says the Gesha identity was not yet genetically confirmed.

04
Separated public response

Recorded one exact independent brewing thread without converting one commenter’s three method ratings into a site or cross-person average.

What was added?

Four sourced editorial sections plus a transparent one-source independent brewing-response summary.

What wasn't added?

No canonical Yellow Gesha relationship, generic roast level, house score or normalized public rating.

Why it matters

The profile communicates a commercially important release name while preserving SEY’s own genetic caveat and the limits of a very small public sample.

What you might taste

SEY lists jasmine, lilac, soft tropical fruit and melon. Independent brewers reported better results with gentler extraction, but the sample is too small for a product score.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2026-dwight-aguilar-masias-yellow-gesha-peru
  • · https://www.reddit.com/r/pourover/comments/1s6cp6s/sey_yellow_gesha_recipe/
  • · https://beanhoard.com/roaster/sey/2026-dwight-aguilar-masias-yellow-gesha-peru
  • · https://www.beanswithbeanie.com/coffee/dwight-aguilar-masias-yellow-gesha-sey
  • · https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/sey-2026-dwight-aguilar-masias-yellow-gesha-peru
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 1 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

One exact-release brewing thread is mixed-to-positive: several brewers found successful recipes and one commenter rated three preparations 8–9/10, while the original poster found the coffee difficult to dial in and another preferred gentler extraction.

What people love

One commenter reported 8/10 pour-over, 9/10 espresso and 9/10 over ice. Another said a 1:16 pour-over recipe worked well, and the thread includes multiple detailed recipes for the same February 16-roasted bag.

What people don't

The original poster called the coffee tough to dial in; another brewer found higher extraction off-putting. One commenter also reported stale coffee associated with faulty bag valves, a packaging anecdote that cannot be generalized to every bag.

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

Internet sentiment

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

Mixed-to-positive, very limited exact-release evidence
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