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...