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Archive: Pride Blend — supplied coffee image 1
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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Archive: Pride Blend; not a documentary photograph

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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Archive: Pride Blend; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Archive: Pride Blend

Roasted by Verve Coffee RoastersRoaster's website
PROCESS NOT FULLY DISCLOSED
TagsEthiopiaMedium roastPeachVanillaBrown SugarArabicaBlendVerve Coffee RoastersIndependent
🇪🇹EthiopiaMedium roast
Brand
Verve Coffee Roasters
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇪🇹Ethiopia
Region
Ethiopia; component regions not disclosed
Town
—
Farm / Station
—
Farmer / Producer
Thousands of Ethiopian smallholder producers
Species
Arabica
Type
Blend
Grade
Not specified
Variety
—
Process
—
Roast
Medium
Tasting notes
White Peach, Vanilla Custard, Brown Sugar
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • PRODUCER ENTITY LINK“Thousands of Ethiopian smallholder producers” is broad collective attribution, not an exact identified producer entity for this blend, so no producer record is linked.
  • INDIVIDUAL PRODUCERSVerve attributes the blend broadly to thousands of Ethiopian smallholders but does not name the contributing producers.
  • FARMS AND STATIONSThe exact release page does not identify contributing farms, cooperatives, or washing stations.
  • REGIONSEthiopia is confirmed, but component regions are not disclosed.
  • VARIETIESThe exact release does not publish component cultivars.
  • COMPONENT PERCENTAGESNo blend proportions are published.
  • PROCESS, FERMENTATION, AND DRYINGThe exact page does not disclose component processing or post-harvest protocols.
  • ELEVATIONNo lot or component elevation is stated.
  • HARVESTNo harvest window or crop year is provided for the component coffees.
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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: Pride Blend
  2. 02
    The brand
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  4. 04
    The variety
    Not disclosed
  5. 05
    The farm
    Not disclosed
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Thousands of Ethiopian smallholder producers
  7. 07
    The region
    Ethiopia; component regions not disclosed
  8. 08
    The country
    🇪🇹Ethiopia
From the producer

Verve credits the blend to thousands of Ethiopian smallholder producers without naming individual farms, stations, regions, or people.

From the roaster

Verve Coffee Roasters describes this blend as a curious, vibrant, and expressive coffee that serves as a celebration of love in all its forms.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A seasonal Ethiopia-focused fundraiser for Equality California that retains broad smallholder attribution while leaving the underlying lot composition undisclosed.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Documented the archived release

Confirmed the 2026 Ethiopian seasonal blend, medium roast, 12-ounce format, $24 price, sold-out status, tasting notes, and Equality California campaign from Verve’s exact page.

02
Removed a false entity-level implication

Cleared the generic producer relationship because “thousands of Ethiopian smallholder producers” is broad attribution, not a verified exact producer entity for the component lots.

03
Kept missing lot data explicit

Left farms, stations, regions, cultivars, component percentages, processing methods, elevations, and harvest details unresolved rather than inferring them from Ethiopia-wide context.

What was added?

No flavoring, fruit addition, co-fermentation input, or inoculated culture is disclosed.

What wasn't added?

No individual producer, farm, station, region, cultivar, component percentage, process, elevation, harvest, original score, or owner tasting observation was inferred.

Why it matters

The profile preserves the campaign and smallholder attribution without turning a broad social-impact narrative into unsupported lot-level traceability.

What you might taste

Verve lists white peach, vanilla custard, and brown sugar.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.vervecoffee.com/products/pride-blend
  • · https://www.eqca.org/
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 2026-11-09) 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

The roaster page and archive, commerce catalogs, seller mirrors, directories, generic-roaster coverage, and different or older releases were excluded from sentiment scoring. No qualifying independent exact-release tasting review remains.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farmer: Thousands of Ethiopian smallholder producers →
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