Kona Red Bourbon
WashedMedium-LightSCA cup 95.0
Cherrybook Index
78Strong
Evidence-of-quality score, not a cup score. Confident: 3 of 7 signals on file. Methodology
Price position
$5.91/oz$59.00 for 283g
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Catalog summary
A washed lot from Kona, United States, indexed 78 on confident evidence.
Based on the listing and catalog evidence
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Roaster’s notes
brown sugar · milk chocolate · juicy cherries · sweet black tea · red plum · lilac · cocoa nib · lemon verbena · sugarcane · stone fruit · sweet citrus · cocoa
- Fruit
- Citrus
- Floral
- Cocoa and nut
- Sugar and spice
Open the flavor wheel
Mapped from the roaster’s tasting notes to the SCA flavor wheel; Cherrybook’s interpretation of the stated notes, not the roaster’s own categorization.
- Origin
- Kona, US
- Producer
- Franck
- Farm / Co-op
- Uluwehi Farm
- Process
- Washed
- Altitude
- 549 m
- Varietals
- Red bourbon
- Harvest
- —
- Weight
- 283g
- Bag price
- $59.00
- Price / oz
- $5.91/oz
- Brew
- —
from the roaster’s storeread by Cherrybook from the listing“estimated” below = inferred, not stated
Cherrybook Index (CBI)
Evidence-of-quality score, not a cup score. Methodology
78
Strong
Confident
Confidence3 of 7 signals on file
Enough independent signal to score at face value; no shrinkage applied.
How confidence affects the score
Coverage measures signal availability, not cup quality. This coffee has 45% of the signal universe on file. Missing sources are dropped, remaining weights are renormalized, and the result is shrunk toward a neutral 50 baseline by 0% so one thin signal cannot carry the score on its own.
Missing: Reddit sentiment, YouTube reviews, On-shop ratings, Cherrybook ratings
- 90/ 11% weightRoaster transparencyProducer / farm / lot disclosure depth
- 75/ 49% weightSCA gradeRoaster-published cupping score
- 75/ 40% weightCoffee ReviewMean score from coffeereview.com
Bonuses applied
- +1Editorial coverage clusterThis roaster has 3+ recent editorial mentions across trade press
Base weighted score: 76.7 + bonuses = 78
Sensory profileestimated
- Acidity
- 4
- Body
- 3
- Sweetness
- 4
- Balance
- 4
- Clean
- 4
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