Blend Week 🇲🇽🇪🇹
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a blend of natural process coffees from Ethiopia and Mexico. After one day’s rest I’m tasting bright fruited...
Mexico Finca Fatima 🇲🇽 Natural Process 🌀
Hello Sideyard Friends, Natural process coffees are naturally difficult to roast (naturally) because of how they’re processed. Letting the coffee cherries...
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe 🇪🇹 Natural Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a natural process coffee from the Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia. I’m tasting tropical fruit, brown spice, plum,...
Mexico/Tanzania 🇲🇽/🇹🇿
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a blend of washed process coffees from Mexico and Tanzania. With both coffees bringing dark chocolate and brown...
West Java Blue 🇮🇩 Semi-washed Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is semi-washed process coffee from West Java, Indonesia. It shares an aromatic woodsy note with last week’s...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Aba Bulgu
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a delightfully complex coffee that comes to us from farmer Abdurhiman Aba Bulgu in the Duromina area of...
Fifth Friday Reminder - No Coffee This Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, Just a quick note to remind subscribers that it’s a fifth Friday week, which means no deliveries or pickups this week. We’ll be back...
Mexico 🇲🇽 Finca Fatima | No Coffee Next Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee comes from Finca Fatima, a third generation coffee farm in Coatepec, Veracruz. In the 1970’s the farm switched to...
Tanzania 🇹🇿 Usawa Kahawa Project
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee comes from a lot comprised of ~300 small holder farmers in southern Tanzania who produce with a commitment to...
Nicaragua 🇳🇮 / Papua New Guinea 🇬🇳
Hello Sideyard Friends, There’s a learning curve when roasting any new coffee for the first time. Every coffee responds a little differently to heat and...
Nicaragua 🇳🇮 La Bastilla Natural
Hello Sideyard Friends, Thanks for enduring the July pause in operations here at Sideyard! :) We’re excited to be back this week with a fruity natural...
Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 + July Sabbatical + Price Increase
Hello Sideyard Friends, This is the last roast and delivery until Friday, August 1st. We take July off for roaster maintenance and summer shenanigans. I hit...
Guatemala Huehuetenago 🇬🇹 Flory Villatoro
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee comes to us from a single farmer, Flory Villatoro, in the town of Peña Blanca in Huehuetenago's Libertad...
Rwanda Kageyo 💥 Natural Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a juicy dry process coffee from the Ngororero district of Rwanda. With notes of blueberry, melon, strawberry,...
Burundi 🇧🇮 Gakenke
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Gakenke washing station in northern Burundi. It’s a bright washed process coffee with notes of black...
Fifth Friday - No Coffee This Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, Just a quick reminder that there aren’t any deliveries or pickups this week. The Sugar Beet Co-op has lots of local roastery options...
Blend Week 🇪🇹/🇲🇽 + Bye Week Next Friday
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a 50/50 combo of Ethiopia Guji and Mexico Chiapas. It’s tasting great. I’m getting praline, mango, lychee, dark...
Mexico 🇲🇽 Chiapas Semi-Washed
Hello Sideyard Friends, Three weeks ago I replaced a thermocouple on our roaster and hoo-boy did it cause some consternation. The replacement was long...
Kenya 🇰🇪 Iyego Factory 🍍
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a washed process lot from the Iyego Factory Co-op in central Kenya. Flavor notes include chocolate, brown spice,...
Rwanda 🇷🇼 Peaberry 🍊
Hello Sideyard Friends, Happy Spring. This week’s coffee is another peaberry lot, but this one’s from Tanzania’s neighbor to the northwest–Rwanda. I’m...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji 🥭
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Guji zone in the Oromia region in southern Ethiopia. It’s a delicate natural process lot, with lighter...
Blend Week 🇨🇴🇹🇿🇮🇩
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee was roasted, bagged, and delivered today. If you’re starting on it this weekend, look out for a bigger bloom from...
Colombia 🇨🇴 Huila Excelso 🍫🍒
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Huila region of Colombia. The Excelso designation is Colobmia’s coffee industry parlance for the...
Tanzania 🇹🇿 Peaberry
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a peaberry coffee from Tanzania. The Peaberry classification refers to a genetic anomaly in coffee trees that...
East African Blend 🇪🇹🇰🇪🇷🇼 + Cleaning Tips
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a blend of three recent East African coffees—Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda. It’s tasting great—milk chocolate,...
Rwanda 🇷🇼 Nyamiyago Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee comes to us from a washing station in Nyamiyago town, Rwanda that serves nearly 3,000 local farmers in the...
Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Tarrazú
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee comes to us from the Tarrazú region of Costa Rica. It was processed by the Cerro La Cruz mill as a “white honey”,...
Kenya 🇰🇪 Othaya Co-op
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Othaya Farmer’s Cooperative in Kenya. So far I’m tasting bright citrus, brown sugar, and cinnamon. As...
Rwanda 🇷🇼 Rulindo
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Rulindo district in Northern Provence, Rwanda. Rwanda produces roughly 20,000 metric tons of coffee...
Blend Week 🇨🇴🇮🇩🇺🇬
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s big-bodied blend offers a great contrast against last week’s light and bright Ethiopia. The blend comprises three parts...
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Chelchele 🇪🇹 Natural
Hello Sideyard Friends, When we had this coffee for the first time back in November I immediately ordered more. It hits some of my favorite notes—moderate...
Colombia Tolima Washed 🇨🇴 + Valentine's Promo ❤️
Hello Sideyard Friends, A few weeks ago I ordered two different green coffees from Colombia. It had been a while since we roasted a Colombia, the prices fit...
Blend Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, We bumped the roast day again this week, so this week’s coffee is another fresher-than-average roast. It’s a blend of the last three...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Limu 🍑
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee comes to us from the Limu region of the Oromia zone in west-central Ethiopia. Limu is not as well know as areas...
Bali 🇮🇩 Semi-Washed
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a semi-washed process coffee from Bali. The flavor profile includes dark chocolate, fig, honey, and black tea,...
Mexico 🇲🇽 Chiapas + 2024 Year in Review 🪩
Hello Sideyard Friends, Happy New Year! Thanks for all your support in 2024. All told, we roasted 2055 pounds of coffee from 22 different origins, and biked...
This Week's Costa Rica 🇨🇷 + Next Week's Blend 🇨🇷/🇪🇹
Hello Sideyard Friends, Michael delivered this week’s and next week’s coffee tonight. Eighty plus bags of coffee is a stretch for the cargo bike, but we like...
Ethiopia Guji 🇪🇹 Buku Sayisa 🫐
Hello Sideyard Friends, Due to our importers’ relationships with growers and processing stations, we often end up buying the same coffees from one year to...
Uganda 🇺🇬 Rwenzori Natural
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee comes to us from the Rwenzori mountain region of Uganda. It’s a natural process lot with a great aroma (seriously,...
No coffee this week (fifth Friday)
Hello Sideyard Friends, Today is the fifth Friday in November. As such, Sideyard has the week off. December subscription payments will process Sunday. Please...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 + Mexico 🇲🇽
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a blend of Ethiopia Guji and Mexico Los Altos. They’re nigh perfect compliments for each other as it ends up...
Mexico 🇲🇽 Los Altos, Chiapas
This week’s coffee is from the Los Altos region of Chiapas, Mexico. It’s an obvious departure from the recent natural Ethiopia and Costa Rica offerings, but...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Yirgacheffe 🫐
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a natural process lot from the Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia. Flavor notes include milk chocolate, black tea,...
Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Anaerobic Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, [oops… drafted this last night and forgot to hit send!] This week’s roast is an anaerobic process coffee from the Tarrazú region of...
Blend Week 🇮🇩/🇨🇷
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is a 50/50 blend of the recent Costa Rica natural and the Sumatra wet hulled. I’ve only brewed one pot so far, but...
Sumatra 🇮🇩 Weh Ilang Wet Hulled
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee (one day early this week) is from the Wet Ilang region of Sumatra. It’s a high grown (1600 meters above sea...
Costa Rica 🇨🇷 San Diego Natural
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the San Diego mill in Costa Rica. The top notes are milk chocolate and almond, followed by cane sugar and...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji 🫐 🍈
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee (the first of two Ethiopias we have lined up for October) is a dry process lot from the Guji region of Ethiopia....
Blend 🇰🇪🇳🇮🇨🇩 Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is a blend of the three most recent coffees–Kenya, Nicaragua, and D.R. Congo. For perhaps selfish reasons, I’ve...
D.R. Congo 🇨🇩 Coopade Cooperative
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from an area in the DR Congo that borders the Virunga National Park. It was processed by the Coopade...