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...
Nicaragua 🇳🇮 La Bastilla Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee was grown and processed by the renowned La Bastilla Coffee Estate in the Jinotega region of Nicaragua. Like all...
Kenya 🇰🇪 AA
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is a washed process Kenya. At two days post-roast, I’m already tasting black cherry, bright fruits, and roasted...
off week reminder 🗓️
Hello Sideyard Friends, Just a quick reminder that today is a fifth Friday, so no Sideyard deliveries or pickups. The co-op has lots of great local roaster...
Blend week + no coffee next week
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s blend includes four recent coffees and clears the deck for September’s incoming coffees. It’s on the lighter end of...
Peru 🇵🇪 Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, We ran into some rain last night with deliveries and had to reset and finish deliveries this morning! So if you didn’t find coffee on...
Brazil 🇧🇷 Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, We haven’t roasted a lot of Brazilian coffees—only five in a little over four years to be exact! It’s mostly due to the fact that I...
Burundi 🇧🇮 Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, Aaaand we’re back! This week’s roast is a deliciously complex coffee from a criminally under-appreciated origin. It’s quite refined...
Two Weeks of Coffee + July Sabbatical + 🧊☕️ Recipe
Hello Sideyard Friends, Sideyard is taking the month of July off, so this is the last delivery/pickup until Friday, August 2. Subscription payments are...
Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 + Partial Delivery Delay
Hello Sideyard Friends, Due to a tech snafu with our delivery routing app, we ran short on time for deliveries today. A handful of deliveries did happen and...
Peru 🇵🇪 Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is one of those coffees that I’m already missing before it’s gone. It’s a dry process Peru from the Alto Pirias....
Off-week reminder
Hello Sideyard Friends, Just a quick reminder that there’s no coffee this week (fifth Friday). If you’re fresh out of coffee, the co-op usually has a great...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji + No Coffee Next Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the mountainous volcanic soils of the Guji zone in southern Ethiopia. Despite neighboring the Sidama...
East Africa Blend 🇰🇪🇹🇿🇪🇹
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is a blend of three East African coffees: Kenya, Tanzania natural, and Ethiopia Yirgacheffe. It starts with a nice...
Rwanda 🇷🇼 Gitwe Peaberry
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Gitwe washing station in the Nyamasheke District of Rwanda. Kenya and Ethiopia get most of the coffee...
Kenya 🇰🇪 Tatu Estate
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Tatu Coffee Estate in central Kenya. Like many farms in Kenya, much of Tatu is planted with the famed...
Tanzania 🇹🇿 Natural
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Songwe region of Tanzania. It’s a natural process coffee, but the effect of the processing is subtle....
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Yirgacheffe 🌸
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is a washed coffee from the Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia. We had it a couple months ago and I liked it enough to...
Blend Week 🇨🇷🇺🇬🇨🇴
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a blend of the three most recent coffees. I was going to wait another couple weeks for this blend, but I felt...
Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Tarrazú Hot Springs Washed
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the Tarrazú region of Costa Rica. The region is known for inventive and wizard-level coffee processing...
Bye-week + April Subscription Info
Hello Sideyard Friends, It's a fifth-Friday-week, which means no coffee this week. April renewal payments will be processed Sunday night and for the first...
Uganda 🇺🇬 Ruwenzori Natural + Roast Level Survey
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a natural process lot from the Rwenzori mountain region of Uganda. After two days rest, I'm tasting black tea,...
Blend Week 🇲🇽🇨🇷🇪🇹
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a blend of recent coffees from Mexico, Costa Rica, and Ethiopia. I'm tasting the fruitier parts of the latter...
Colombia 🇨🇴 Huila Excelso
Hello Sideyard Friends, Check out the size of those beans! That's what an "excelso" designation from the Colombia Coffee Federation looks like. Size is not...
⚠️ Delivery Rain Delay 🌧️
Today's delivery is delayed and will go out tomorrow morning. If you're fresh out of coffee, we'd be happy to arrange a porch pickup tonight or first thing...
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe 🇪🇹 Washed Process
Hello Sideyard Subscribers, This week's roast is the washed process version of the same Ethiopia Yirgacheffe we had back in January. I loved the dry process...
Sideyard Notes: Blend Week 🇨🇷🇰🇪🇧🇷
Hello Sideyard Friends, We're currently roasting 45 to 50 lbs of green coffee per week. But the importers we buy most of our coffee from, sells coffee in 65...
Sideyard Notes: Brazil Dry Process 🇧🇷
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast comes from a single family farm in Brazil, run by Donã Marta. It's a dry process coffee with notes of winey...
Sideyard Notes: Tanzania 🇹🇿 Natural ✨
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a Tanzania natural. Star fruit is a very very specific tasting note, but I think it does a great job of...
Sideyard Notes: Costa Rica Tarrazu 🇨🇷 🍯
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the famed Tarrazu region of Costa Rica. It's a honey process coffee, sitting somewhere between dry and...
Sideyard Notes: Kenya Ngungu-ini 🇰🇪 Peaberry
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee comes to us from a processing facility at the foothills of Mt Kenya in central Kenya. The facility draws coffee...
Sideyard Notes: Blend Week 🇧🇷 🇪🇹 🇰🇪
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee made it out late yesterday afternoon in what might have been Michael's coldest and slushiest delivery loop ever....
Sideyard Notes: Mexico Chiapas 🇲🇽
Hello Sideyard Friends, Michael recently finished a chilly zig-zagging loop of south Oak Park on his trusty mint green cargo bike! Please rescue those beans...
Delivery Delay ⚠️
Hello Sideyard Subscribers, This week's roast is a delicious washed coffee from Chiapas, Mexico. While we look forward to having it in your grinders and...
Sideyard Notes: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Yirgacheffe Dry Process + extras
Hello Sideyard Friends, We're starting the new year with one of my go to favorites–a dry process Ethiopia. It's a lighter bodied medium roast with notes of...