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, cooked berries, grape, and brown sugar are the notes that come to mind. We have a couple extras in stock.
I recently cleaned and descaled my drip coffee brewer and thought it might be helpful to recommend a couple products that work like magic. Urnex Puro dissolves hard to remove coffee oils (and keeps things tasting fresh), and Urnex Dezcal decalcifies (and keeps the pump working quickly and efficiently). Both products are marketed for espresso machines, but they’re safe for drip machines. I’ve been using both for years on our Technivorm Moccamaster and because a little goes a long way, they’ll last more or less indefinitely.
The origin track for the week is Clouds Moving on the Sky by Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru. Even for Tsege Mariam Gebru, this one is chill. It’s from a collection of vocal-heavy songs recorded between 1975 and 1985, and released as a collection after her death in 2024. The vocals were recorded into a boombox sitting on top of her piano.
Cheers,
Ryan