Kilenso

Name: Kilenso
Brand: Coava Coffee
SKU: coava-kilenso
Price: 23.00 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Ethiopia

NaturalDark

Cherrybook Index

75Strong

Evidence-of-quality score, not a cup score. Confident: 3 of 7 signals on file. Methodology

Price position

$2.17/oz$23.00 for 300g

Price position appears once the price model has scored this lot.

Catalog summary

A natural lot from Sidamo, Ethiopia, indexed 75 on confident evidence.

Based on the listing and catalog evidence

No longer available at the roaster

Last verified 22 days ago.

Roaster’s notes

key lime · lavender · custard

Citrus
Floral

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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: Sidamo, ET
Producer: Daye Bensa
Farm / Co-op: —
Process: Natural
Altitude: 1800–2100 m
Varietals: Heirloom
Harvest: —
Weight: 300g
Bag price: $23.00
Price / oz: $2.17/oz
Brew: filter, espresso

from the roaster’s storeread by Cherrybook from the listing“estimated” below = inferred, not stated

From the editors

This lot is no longer available at the roaster.

We last reached the roaster’s page for this coffee 22 days ago. It now returns a not-found or members-only response, so we’ve archived the buy link rather than send anyone to a dead page. The notes, sensory chart, and editorial context below remain useful as a record of what this lot offered.

Cherrybook Index (CBI)

Evidence-of-quality score, not a cup score. Methodology

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 43% 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: SCA grade, YouTube reviews, On-shop ratings, Cherrybook ratings

Reddit sentiment
Sentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
88/ 42% weight
Coffee Review
Mean score from coffeereview.com
65/ 47% weight
Roaster transparency
Producer / farm / lot disclosure depth
65/ 12% weight

Sensory profileestimated

Acidity: 4
Body: 4
Sweetness: 4
Balance: 3
Clean: 3

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About Coava Coffee

Community reputation · Reddit

Cult favorite· sentiment 88/100

Six independent Reddit threads give Coava a strongly favorable but not uniform picture. Repeat buyers described consistently excellent, sweet, and memorable coffees, while one brewer had an incredible first cup followed by inconsistent results.

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Threads cited (6)

r/Coffee · 30↑ · Learning to make coffee hands on, in person, in Portland? But not to become a barista?
I find Coava to be pretty consistent and they ship right after they roast. I live about 45 minutes from Portland now so shipping is easiest for me. Case Study was always my go to when I lived in the city.
r/pourover · 18↑ · Please share your 5 favorite roasters, with a comment for each choice
...any order) -Passenger in Lancaster, PA- great coffee almost always, lots of choices. Love they sell small bags. Really nice people/customer service -Coava in Portland, Ore- I always have a medium coffee on hand and Coava never disappoints; their stuff is always fantastic and never roasty/too developed. -Vibrant in P
r/Coffee · 17↑ · Can we talk about Central American coffee? Its Amazing.
...that was incredible to brew at home. Chocolaty, but with a hint of some florals. My favorite coffee of all time was a Honduran coffee from the Portland roaster Coava. It was brewed with a Clever, and was unforgettably sweet. I tend to enjoy Panamanian coffees as well. The reason for the post is to pose a few questio
r/Coffee · 13↑ · Caramelly espresso recomdations.
...to coffee after a trip to Brazil. She always talks about how much she enjoys espresso with caramel overtones. Anyone have any reccomendations for beans I can order for Christmas? I am happy to get some in the Seattle area too. I like Coava, in Portland, a lot. I also enjoy espresso from Zietgiest in Seattle. Any ide
r/espresso · 11↑ · As a Portlander, Stumptown is not the Best we Have to Offer
...eling to them and they’ve lost a lot of clout in the city. If you want to see the best out vibrant coffee scene has to offer, it suggest poking around at smaller roasters. Coava makes excellent coffee and is quite trendy right now. Water Avenue is also held in high esteem but isn’t a personal favorite. I have worked
r/Coffee · 6↑ · Frustrating inconsistency even with Clever
...r sometimes shake) and let sit for 30 seconds, then drain. Sometimes I get pretty tasty cups. The first cup out of this new bag of Ethiopian from Coava was incredible. The second cup was slightly less. Every cup since then has been mediocre to plain bad. My grind size has been more or less the same, with only small