Juan Quilla Laura Washed Bourbon
WashedLight72Cherry's Index
Cup profile
baked apple spices · wildflower honey · lemon tea
- Fruit
- Floral
- Sugar and spice
- Origin
- Puno, PE
- Producer
- Juan Quilla Laura
- Farm / Co-op
- Finca Quillabamba
- Process
- Washed
- Altitude
- 1800–1800 m
- Varietals
- bourbon
- Harvest
- —
- Weight
- 249g
- Bag price
- $27.50
- Price / oz
- $3.13/oz
- Brew
- —
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Cherry's Index
Evidence-of-quality score, not a cup score. Methodology
72
Noted
Preliminary
Confidence33% coverage / 3 of 7 signals
Score is partially shrunk toward a neutral 50 — read directionally until more source families land.
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 18% so one thin signal cannot carry the score on its own.
Missing: SCA grade, Coffee Review, Buyer reviews, Cherrybook tastings
- 85/ 30% weightYouTube reviewsSentiment from third-party YouTube reviewer mentions
- 75/ 55% weightReddit sentimentSentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
- 75/ 15% weightRoaster transparencyProducer / farm / lot disclosure depth
Bonuses applied
- +2Sprudge press coverageThis roaster has been featured by Sprudge
- +-3Stale-stock demotionThis lot has been listed in stock for an extended time; specialty coffee freshness degrades over weeks
Renormalized base 78.0 shrunk to 73.1 at 83% confidence + bonuses = 72.
Sensory profileestimated
- Acidity
- 4
- Body
- 2
- Sweetness
- 4
- Balance
- 4
- Clean
- 4
Flavor wheelestimated
Comps & alternatives
Tasting flight
Taste this against three others Cherry picks.
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Reference · About the varietal & origin
About Modcup Coffee
Community reputation · Reddit
Well-regarded· sentiment 75/100
Modcup Coffee is recognized by community members as a local specialty roaster based in Jersey City, NJ, with a thread highlighting their delicious local roasts. (Note: One thread comment also likely confuses them with the similarly named Madcap in a subscription pricing discussion).
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Press · Sprudge
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On YouTube
2 videos · 8k combined views
Reviewers and featured interviews highlight Modcup Coffee as a Jersey City micro-roastery dedicated to extreme freshness. Outside coverage emphasizes their core philosophy that most commercial coffee is stale. They operate with a strict small batch roasting model where beans are roasted every few days to ensure optimal flavor.
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