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Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Honey
November 29, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a honey process coffee from the birthplace of this innovative processing method—Tarrazú Costa Rica. Honey...
Tanzania 🇹🇿 Peaberry
November 21, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a Tanzania Peaberry. The main ideas here are dark chocolate, currant, and plum. There’s a hint of something...
Moka Java Blend
November 15, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee blend is inspired by the oldest blend in the books. It was first created more than 500 years ago when trade ships...
Costa Rica Tarrazú 🇨🇷 Honey Process 🫏
November 7, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a honey process coffee from Tica Linda—a women owned processing facility in Tarrazú, Costa Rica. Honey process...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji Natural
October 24, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Guji region of Ethiopia. It’s a fully sun-dried natural process coffee with notes of tropical fruit,...
Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬
October 17, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from Papua New Guinea and it’s about as dark and brooding a brew as we get here at Sideyard. Hopefully it’ll...
Blend Week 🇲🇽🇪🇹
October 11, 2025
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 🌀
October 3, 2025
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
September 26, 2025
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 🇲🇽/🇹🇿
September 19, 2025
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
September 12, 2025
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
September 5, 2025
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
August 29, 2025
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
August 22, 2025
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
August 15, 2025
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 🇬🇳
August 8, 2025
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
August 1, 2025
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
June 27, 2025
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
June 20, 2025
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
June 13, 2025
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,...
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