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Koffeesome Data
3,226 tracked bags, 31 countries of origin — and eight places where the flavor on the label stops being a coincidence and starts being a pattern.
Roasters print origin on every bag, but it usually reads as geography trivia — a place name next to a process and an altitude. Underneath it, in the actual tasting notes people write, origin is doing real predictive work.
We pulled the tasting-note text from all 3,226 bags tracked in Koffeesome and counted how often each flavor word shows up per country, against how often it shows up across the whole catalog. When a note appears at a country far more than its catalog-wide baseline, we call that lift— Kenya's blackcurrant, at 9.3× the baseline, is lift; caramel showing up everywhere at roughly the same rate is not.
Below are the eight countries with enough volume — at least 100 bags each — to trust the signal, mapped to their true geographic centroid and ranked by how much of the catalog they represent.
Origin · N = 762 bags
Colombia supplies nearly a quarter of the whole catalog, which is exactly why no single flavor dominates it. What does cut through: a run of bright, tropical notes — lemongrass, passion fruit, watermelon — each two to three times more common here than the catalog average.
Origin · N = 407 bags
Ethiopia's is the most legible signature of any origin in the data. Floral, bergamot, peach — a near-Earl-Grey register that shows up two to four times more often than the catalog average, and often in the same bag.
Origin · N = 319 bags
Brazil is the low end of the spectrum on purpose: nutty, chocolatey, sweet, with hazelnut at nearly four times the catalog rate. It's the most internally consistent origin in the dataset — the closest thing to a house style.
Origin · N = 175 bags
The sharpest signal anywhere in the data. Blackcurrant appears in nearly one of every five Kenyan bags — 9.3 times the rate of the catalog as a whole — trailed by grapefruit and hibiscus at four to five times the average.
Origin · N = 160 bags
Peru breaks from the chocolate-forward norm of South America. No single note runs away with it, but jasmine, almond and brown sugar all land at roughly twice the catalog average — floral and nutty instead of dark and sweet.
Origin · N = 123 bags
A brighter, fruitier register than its Central American neighbors — raspberry and orange both outpace the catalog average, layered over a caramel base that is closer to the norm.
Origin · N = 113 bags
Guatemala's milk chocolate rate is the highest of any origin in the set, paired with an apple note — counting every green, red and pink apple mention — that shows up almost three times more than average. Gentler and sweeter than Brazil's deeper roast profile.
Origin · N = 112 bags
Dark berries and stone fruit in even measure put Rwanda closer to its East African neighbors than to Kenya's citrus-tart blackcurrant — a quieter, plummier take on the region.
Check the origin. The flavor is already written.
Methodology— Flavor share = % of a country's bags whose label tasting notes mention that word (bags can mention more than one). Baseline = the same share across all 3,226 bags. Lift = country share ÷ baseline. Countries below n=100 are omitted for reliability. Guatemala's “apple” figure merges green/red/pink apple mentions. Source: Koffeesome catalog, tracked through August 2026.
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