Peru, Belle Vista
Natural
Cup profile
cane sugar · grape · cacao nib
- Fruit
- Cocoa and nut
- Sugar and spice
- Origin
- PE
- Producer
- Proyecto Otuzco
- Farm / Co-op
- Belle Vista
- Process
- Natural
- Altitude
- 2100–2100 m
- Varietals
- caturra
- Harvest
- —
- Weight
- 250g
- Bag price
- EUR 14.50
- Price / oz
- $1.90/oz
- Brew
- —
from the roaster’s storeread by Cherrybook from the listing“estimated” below = inferred, not stated
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Cherry's Index
Evidence-of-quality score, not a cup score. Methodology
62
Sparse signal
Confidence23% coverage / 2 of 7 signals
Score is heavily shrunk toward 50; treat as a placeholder until more sources arrive.
How confidence affects the score
Coverage measures signal availability, not cup quality. Missing sources are dropped, remaining weights are renormalized, and the result is shrunk toward a neutral 50 baseline by 43% so one thin signal cannot carry the score on its own.
Missing: SCA grade, Coffee Review, YouTube reviews, Buyer reviews, Cherrybook tastings
- 72/ 78% weightReddit sentimentSentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
- 70/ 22% weightRoaster transparencyProducer / farm / lot disclosure depth
Renormalized base 71.6 shrunk to 62.4 at 57% confidence = 62.
Sensory profileestimated
- Acidity
- 3
- Body
- 3
- Sweetness
- 4
- Balance
- 4
- Clean
- 3
Flavor wheelestimated
Comps & alternatives
Tasting flight
Taste this against three others Cherry picks.
Brew a set side-by-side. Cherry varies the picks along axes that pair with this lot; origin, process, roast, or producer; so you learn the difference, not just drink four good cups.
Reference · About the varietal & origin
About Alchemy Coffee
Community reputation · Reddit
Well-regarded· sentiment 72/100
Alchemy Coffee (including references to Coffee Alchemy in Sydney and George Howell's Alchemy offering) appears across a few threads in passing, often mentioned in the context of cafe visits, home brewing comparisons, or as a baseline of quality (such as George Howell's Alchemy blend). While not the main subject of extensive dedicated review threads, the mentions reflect a positive presence in specialty coffee discussions.
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Threads cited (10)
- r/Coffee · ↑ · Gale and Kato's Coffee Alchemy: Is there really such a thing?
- r/Coffee · ↑ · I'm ready to give up/move on from the French Press.
- r/Coffee · ↑ · Best cafes in Edinburgh, Cork, Dublin
- r/Coffee · ↑ · Bay Area Coffee Roasters [xPost from r/bayarea]
- r/Coffee · ↑ · A question about grind
- r/espresso · ↑ · That first acceptable pull on a new bean feeling. George Howell Alchemy.
- r/Coffee · ↑ · Alchemy processing - tried it?
- r/Coffee · ↑ · Traveling through Berkeley and San Francisco. Coffee recommendations?
- r/Coffee · ↑ · [QUESTION] Looking for Brewing cocoa in Europe
- r/espresso · ↑ · Curiously tried whole bean coffee from discount grocer
On YouTube
1 video · 3k combined views
1 video from Alchemy Coffee's own channel.