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Ethiopia Yirgacheffe 🇪🇹 Washed Process
March 1, 2024
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 🇨🇷🇰🇪🇧🇷
February 23, 2024
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 🇧🇷
February 16, 2024
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 ✨
February 9, 2024
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 🇨🇷 🍯
January 31, 2024
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
January 27, 2024
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 🇧🇷 🇪🇹 🇰🇪
January 19, 2024
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 🇲🇽
January 13, 2024
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 ⚠️
January 12, 2024
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
January 5, 2024
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...
Sideyard Notes: Year in Review 2023 🪩 | No Coffee This Week Reminder
December 22, 2023
Hello Sideyard Friends, Thank you for your support this year! Sideyard Coffee was started as a pandemic fever dream in July 2020. The idea was simple if not...
Sideyard Notes: Kenya 🇰🇪 Kimalany | Last Roast of 2023
December 22, 2023
Hello Sideyard Friends, The last roast of 2023 is a coffee from the Farmers Cooperative Society (FCS) in Kimalany village in Kenya. FCS uses a wet mill to...
Sideyard Notes: Brazil 🇧🇷 Natural 🍓 + Gift Subscriptions
December 15, 2023
Hello Sideyard Friends, Mea culpa... 2023 nearly came and went without a coffee from Brazil. This year's crop in Brazil will net more than 66 million 60kg...
Sideyard Notes: Papuan New Guinea 🇵🇬 Peaberry + Irving Craft Fair Today!
December 9, 2023
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a Papua New Guinea Peaberry. Fun fact about Papua New Guinea–out of the nine million people in PNG, around 2.5...
Sideyard Notes: Blend Week
December 2, 2023
Hello Sideyard Friends, We're starting December with a blend of the last three coffees–Colombia, Costa Rica, and Uganda. Dark chocolate leads the pack with...
Costa Rica Tarrazú 🇨🇷 🍯
November 24, 2023
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a honey processed coffee from the Tarrazú region of Costa Rica. Costa Rican processors are famous for their...
Sideyard Notes: Uganda 🇺🇬 Rwenzori Washed
November 17, 2023
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a washed process coffee from the western Rwenzori region of Uganda. The coffee from this region is grown mostly...
Sideyard Notes: Colombia 🇨🇴 Huila
November 10, 2023
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a washed coffee from the Huila department of Colombia. I'm picking up white grape and pear and maybe a touch of...
Sideyard Notes: Kenya 🇰🇪 Peaberry 🍅
November 3, 2023
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's Kenya peaberry is bit of a sourcing splurge. Kenya's command a premium to start with, and this one is a peaberry micro...
Sideyard Notes: Americas Blend Week 🇲🇽🇳🇮🇨🇴🇨🇷
October 27, 2023
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a blend of four recent coffees and a tour of the Americas (north/central/south). Here's the recipe: 4 parts...
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