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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Archive: Ethiopia Bekele Yutute, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Archive: Ethiopia Bekele Yutute; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Archive: Ethiopia Bekele Yutute; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Archive: Ethiopia Bekele Yutute; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇪🇹EthiopiaNaturalLight roast
Roaster website
Country
🇪🇹Ethiopia
Region
Sidamo
Town
Dembe
Farm / Station
Farmer / Producer
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Specialty
Variety
74158
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Strawberry, White Tea, Apricot
Fermentation
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Drying
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Product page
Date reviewed
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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
    Archive: Ethiopia Bekele Yutute
  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
    The variety
    74158
  5. 05
    The farm
  6. 06
    The farmer
  7. 07
    The region
  8. 08
From the producer

Bekele Yutute is the named producer. Verve describes producer-led control of processing, references work at both Dembe and Kokose, and credits his team with careful drying and quality-focused export.

From the roaster

Verve Coffee Roasters is an independent specialty roaster founded in Santa Cruz, California, in 2007.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The record now exposes rather than hides an official source contradiction: Natural versus Washed, and 74158 versus Ethiopian Heirloom.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Verified the exact release

Confirmed Bekele Yutute, Dembe, 2,350 m, price, roast level, tasting notes, and sold-out status from Verve's exact archive page.

02
Preserved contradictions

The page's imagery and narrative say Natural and 74158, while its structured panel says Washed and Ethiopian Heirloom; neither process nor variety relation was forced.

03
Separated sentiment

No independent exact-release review qualified, so no public sentiment score was added.

What was added?

A contradiction-aware description, region and producer links, exact elevation, price, availability, and source notes.

What wasn't added?

No farm, process, or variety relation; the official page conflicts across Dembe/Kokose context, Natural/Washed process, and 74158/Ethiopian Heirloom cultivar labels.

Why it matters

Leaving disputed fields blank prevents the derived tag system from presenting one side of the roaster's unresolved metadata conflict as settled fact.

What you might taste

Verve's stated notes are Strawberry, White Tea, and Apricot; these are roaster-provided descriptors, not our tasting results.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.vervecoffee.com/products/bekele-yutute
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 2026-10-25) 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

Non-exact, seller, directory, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it: