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 Department of Guatemala. It feels like a special privilege to roast 50 lbs of an 1100 lb micro lot.
This is the kind of coffee I could drink day in and day out—a “daily driver” in coffee world jargon. It has just enough excitement to keep me coming back and nothing too wild or wooly as to overstay it’s welcome. Flavor notes include brown sugar, butterscotch, caramel, and chocolate truffle. The note that stood out to me yesterday was butterscotch, but today it’s the caramel and chocolate. I’m not sure yet if that’s the result of the profile shifting, or what I was eating at the time. Likely some of both…
We have a handful of 12oz bags in stock!
We also bagged up a couple more of last week’s Rwanda—send me an email if you specifically want one of those.
The origin track for the week is Clover Club by the Imperial Marimba Band from 1918! Spotify has it too, but this recording from UCSB sounds a lot clearer.
As we’ve done the past few summers, Sideyard is going to take the month of July off for some roaster maintenance and R&R. I’ll hit the skip button on July subscription payments for all current subscriptions, so there’s nothing anyone needs to do on their end. Next week’s coffee will be a Papua New Guinea, and then we’ll be back on August 1st!
Cheers,
Ryan