Panama Boquete Elida Mina Geisha
Washed69Cherry's Index
Cup profile
orange · honey · peach · smooth · long finish
- Fruit
- Citrus
- Sugar and spice

- Origin
- Boquete, PA
- Producer
- —
- Farm / Co-op
- Elida Estate
- Process
- Washed
- Altitude
- 1670–2100 m
- Varietals
- geisha
- Harvest
- —
- Weight
- 160g
- Bag price
- $29.00
- Price / oz
- $5.14/oz
- Brew
- filter, espresso
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Cherry's Index
Evidence-of-quality score, not a cup score. Methodology
69
Noted
Sparse signal
Confidence2 of 7 signals on file
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. This coffee has 23% 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 43% so one thin signal cannot carry the score on its own.
The math on file: renormalized base 82.8 shrunk to 68.9 = 69.
Missing: SCA grade, Coffee Review, YouTube reviews, Buyer reviews, Cherrybook tastings
- 85/ 78% weightReddit sentimentSentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
- 75/ 22% weightRoaster transparencyProducer / farm / lot disclosure depth
Flavor wheelestimated
Comps & alternatives
Tasting flight
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About Glitch Coffee & Roasters
Community reputation · Reddit
Cult favorite· sentiment 85/100
Glitch Coffee & Roasters is widely recognized as a premier destination in the Japanese specialty coffee scene, frequently mentioned alongside other top-tier roasters like Apollon's Gold and Kurasu. They maintain a strong international presence, often appearing at major coffee festivals and being sought out by enthusiasts traveling to Tokyo. While their main shops are noted for a specific, sometimes "dark-ish" aesthetic, they are highly regarded for the quality of their beans, with some users finding their flavor profiles difficult to replicate with US-based roasters.
top-tier Japanese roastermust-visit Tokyo destinationhigh-quality beansfrequent festival presencedistinctive shop atmosphere
Threads cited (10)
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On YouTube
4 videos · 591k combined views
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