Fidelity
Alo — Tamiru Tadesse
Anaerobic washed
31 October 2026 · Sydney
Coffee tasting results
All 13 coffees, ranked by favourite points.
Chocoloco
Edwin Noreña — Gesha
Alo — Tamiru Tadesse
Edinson Argote — Blueberry
Iris Estate
Edwin Noreña — Campo Hermoso
Masina
Jigesa
Taby Natty
The Flower Factory
Apricotini
Brazil & Vietnam Blend
Santa Monica
Pick share is each coffee’s percentage of the 59 favourite points awarded.
Processing and fermentation answers.
Alo — Tamiru Tadesse
Anaerobic washed
The Flower Factory
Classic Washed
Apricotini
Red honey; 24-hour aerobic followed by 24-hour anaerobic fermentation
Edwin Noreña — Campo Hermoso
Strawberry mosto natural (co-ferment)
Edwin Noreña — Gesha
Black Honey Mossto IPA; Cascade-hop co-fermentation
Chocoloco
Extended washed
Brazil & Vietnam Blend
All components natural; experimental / extended fermentation.
Edinson Argote — Blueberry
Blueberry co-ferment natural
Masina
CM washed
Santa Monica
Natural; 45-hour aerobic fermentation
Jigesa
Natural
Taby Natty
Natural Ext Ferment
Iris Estate
Nitrogen natural
Four questions. Eight points.
Question 1 · 2 points
Sample Coffee · Edwin Noreña — Gesha
2 of 35 correct
Question 2 · 2 points
MLWC · Brazil & Vietnam Blend
18 of 35 correct
Question 3 · 2 points
12 of 35 correct
Question 4 · 2 points
17 of 35 correct
Time measured from the tasting opening.
16 stories · Authors redacted.
The year was 2045, and Starbucks had officially outlawed every other coffee in the world, with anyone caught brewing an independent espresso sentenced to a lifetime of decaf. People whispered about a time when coffee tasted like coffee, when baristas knew your name without writing it on a cup, and when a flat white didn't cost $12. But the most terrifying part wasn't the green siren watching from every street corner… it was the fact that nobody remembered what real coffee tasted like.
Many scary bathroom stories - too many to tell
Well I was alone at my office back in Singapore which used to be an old high school - it was past 10pm and just me and a friend. We saw steam coming out of the coffee machine suddenly and started smelling coffee - I swear there was no one there at all. We made a run for it and didn’t stay to try the haunted cuppa lol.
Mould coffee industry your station
When there was fire in the roastery. Could burn the whole building down.
I was driving down the middle of Australia alone and scorching hot. My caravan was rattling more than a rattlesnake from these hot desert winds. I felt myself get a bit tired and time for a cuppa, I pulled into a service station and they TOLD ME THE COFFEE MACHINE WAS BROKEN. So I put on my brave face and bought a ice cold dare coffee. Coming back into my caravan and looking at the bottle I looked at the label and saw my despairation for caffeine. I opened the lid and smelt it full of whatever passes for coffee nowadays. But as it passes into me like a ghostly apprarion, and I taste it. Only me, you and desert winds know the sound of ahhhh escaping my lips.
One day I was making coffee and suddenly I saw a HUGE cockroach near the coffee machine 😭 I screamed and jumped back… then I realised it was still moving towards me. I ran away and left my coworker to deal with it 😂☕️🪳
my coffee is not decaf!
Visiting a coffee shop in puerto Vallarta after a snorkelling trip in the morning. Ordered a pour over and as soon as the coffee hit my stomach I felt so ill, my partner was in the toilet so I had no other choice but to go outside and projectile vomit the coffee all over the ground . Lel spooky
G
Looking in the drip tray in my sharehouse’s coffee machine and realising there was a blue-green film over it
Tasting coffee G today
G
Attending a coffee cupping event when you don’t even drink coffee. I loved the tasting but expect to be up all the night 😂
i was arguing with a customer over email about how fresh their coffee was (it was too fresh and they were complaining), and i conspired with my team to send a really solid scathing email but I put [DRAFT] in the subject line
No more beans
To all the roasters who provided coffees and made this night possible.
A special thank you to Collusion for their massive part in the giveaway — powered by @cynthiaa.j__ and @fbr.rom.
And to @madeofmanycoffee for the mystery batch.
Fidelity
Fruit pastilles, mango, apricot.
Made of Many
Flowers, Flowers, Flowers
DAK (via Only Coffee)
Apricot jam, peach, sparkling tea.
Diggy Doos
Floral, Chai, Lavender, Citrus, Rose Water
Sample Coffee
Rose, lime, passionfruit, fresh hops.
Ratio
Cherry, tropical, chocolate.
MLWC
Durian
Collusion
Wild blueberry, grapefruit, brown sugar.
Changer
Raspberry, custard, mango, green tea, sherbet.
Stitch Coffee
Cherry, toffee, lime.
Mecca
Mandarin, peach. Wild & funky.
The Wood Roaster
Chocolate, Berries
Haven
Mandarin, kumquat, nectarine, orange blossom, pink marshmallow.