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Costa Rica - La Lia "Red Honey SL28"

Red HoneyMedium-Light69Noted
Costa Rica - La Lia "Red Honey SL28" by Koppi Roasters
Farm / Co-op
Piesan
Process
Red Honey
Altitude
1900–2000 m
Varietals
sl28
Harvest
Weight
250g
Bag price
SEK 28.00
Price / oz
$0.30/oz
Brew

As cupped

wild · tropical · strawberry milkshake

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Cherry's Index

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

69

Noted

Sparse signal

Confidence23% coverage / 2 of 7 signals

Score is heavily shrunk toward 50; treat as a placeholder until more sources arrive. Coverage is signal availability, not cup quality; missing sources are dropped, the remaining weights are renormalized, and the result is shrunk toward a neutral 50 baseline by 43% so a single thin signal can’t carry the score on its own.

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  • Reddit sentiment
    Sentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
    85/ 78% weight
  • Roaster transparency
    Producer / farm / lot disclosure depth
    75/ 22% weight

Renormalized base 82.8 shrunk to 68.9 at 57% confidence = 69.

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About Koppi Roasters

Community reputation · Reddit

Cult favorite· sentiment 85/100

Koppi is consistently regarded as a high-quality, respected roaster within the specialty coffee community. Users frequently group them alongside other top-tier European roasters like Sey, Manhattan, and The Barn. While some users have noted challenges in dialing in their light-roasted beans, these comments are framed as personal brewing hurdles rather than criticisms of the coffee's quality.

high-quality light roastsrespected European roasterfrequent recommendation for quality beanschallenging to dial in for beginnersassociated with Swedish coffee culture
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On YouTube

2 videos · 4k combined views

2 videos cover Koppi Roasters from reviewers Thomas Schøn, nieteraz.

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