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 our budget, and the importer’s tasting notes spoke to me. (Fwiw, this is how any coffee gets purchased around here!). A week later our importer was completely sold out of Colombian offerings thanks to import tariff bluster and ensuing panic buys in our little corner of the specialty coffee world. In the larger commodity market, the tariff threat caused Latin American coffee futures to tick up a few percentage points, basically overnight.* In short, after these two Colombias are out the door, it might be a bit before we have another one. :| Chaos reigns.
This specific lot comes from one of the biggest coffee producing regions in Colombia**, the centrally located Tolima region. It was processed at Multicoop Asojuntas–a processing co-op known for both quality and sustainability. In the cup I’m tasting raspberry, dried apricot, and citrus.
We currently have a bit of extra capacity in our weekly roast, so how about a Valentine’s day promo? We’re packing up some 8oz bags from this week’s and next week’s roasts and offering them for $8(!) each. Buy one for a coffee-loving friend or neighbor (or yourself) and we'll deliver on Friday, February 14th. Reserve one or more bags here. If you would like to have it delivered directly to someone locally, please add their address in the special notes section at checkout. We'll add a note that it's from you.
This week’s origin track recommendation is Soy Yo by Bomba Estéreo. The band’s sound has been described as “psychedelic cumbia” and “electro tropical”. Either way you slice it, it’s an upbeat earworm.
Cheers,
Ryan
*On a related note, the halting of USAID project funding will have both immediate and longterm impacts on coffee farmers and producers. Coffee communities in Burundi, Peru, DRC, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and throughout Latin America have benefited from various USAID funded projects over the past decade.
**Good to know: Colombia is the world’s third largest coffee producer (behind Brazil and Vietnam) and roughly 20% of the coffee consumed in the US is from Colombia!