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Sideyard Coffee: February 25 - Brazil 🇧🇷 + March Subscriptions + Extras
February 21, 2022
Hello Sideyard Friends, Brazil produces a whole lot of coffee and a whole lot of it (~90%) gets bought and sold as commodity coffee. The remaining 10% that...
Sideyard Coffee: February 18 - Colombia 🇨🇴 Anaerobic 🍫🍋
February 18, 2022
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a fun one. It's a natural Colombia that is wildly tart and juicy. It's not as mouth-puckeringly tart nor as...
Sideyard Coffee: February 11 - Peru 🇵🇪 🏔 + a few extras
February 11, 2022
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the Satipo province of Peru. Located between the Andes and the rainforest, the region is also known as the...
Sideyard Coffee: February 4 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 + 🛥 🪨
February 4, 2022
Hello Sideyard Friends, There's an old saying in the coffee roasting business: "Some days you roast the coffee, and other days the coffee roasts you." This...
Sideyard Coffee: January 29 - Guatemala 🇬🇹 🍒🍫
January 28, 2022
Hello Sideyard Friends, First off, welcome to all the new folks coming from the South Oak Park Neighbors Facebook group who are trying out Sideyard coffee...
Sideyard ☕️ Delivery Delay ❄️
January 28, 2022
Hello Sideyard Friends, With apologies, Michael and I have decided to delay deliveries until Saturday morning due to the weather. We very much prefer the...
Sideyard Coffee: January 21 - Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Honey Process 🍯
January 20, 2022
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a honey process* coffee from Costa Rica. Originally born out of a need to process coffee cherries with less...
Sideyard Coffee: January 14 - PNG 🇵🇬 + Colombia 🇨🇴 Blend
January 13, 2022
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we've roasted up the remainder of two recent coffees–the natural Papua New Guinea from back in October and the more recent...
Sideyard Coffee: January 7 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Dry Process 🫐🍓
January 5, 2022
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from a lot that was grown on hundreds of extremely small farms in the Hambela Wamena region of Ethiopia. Until...
Sideyard Coffee: December 17 - Kenya 🇰🇪 + Nicaragua 🇳🇮 + Costa Rica Cascara 🎁
December 14, 2021
Hello Sideyard Friends, Sorry for the length on this one, but we've go two coffees, a small gift for subscribers, origin tracks, and a few last minute coffee...
Sideyard Coffee: December 10 - Colombia 🇨🇴 Huila El Tiple Supremo 🌰🍫🍒
December 8, 2021
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we're drinking a coffee from the Huila Department in southwest Colombia. Coffee has been cultivated in Colombia since the...
Sideyard Coffee: December 3 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Hambela Dabaye
December 3, 2021
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a dry process coffee from the Hambela Dabaye processing station in the Guji zone of Ethiopia. It's cleaner...
Sideyard Coffee: November 26 - Guatemala/Colombia Blend 🇬🇹 + 🇨🇴 + 🥧
November 21, 2021
Hello Sideyard Friends, Last week I suggested a 1:1 blend of the recent Colombia and this week's Guatemala. I was enjoying that combo so much that we decided...
Sideyard Coffee: November 19 - Guatemala Huehuetenango 🇬🇹🍫
November 16, 2021
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we're drinking a wet processed Guatemalan coffee from the Huehuetenango region. "Weh weh" for short. This fabled region is...
Sideyard Coffee: November 12: Colombia 🇨🇴 Anaerobic Fermentation Natural 🍋🍓
November 10, 2021
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we have an experimental process coffee, from the producer Juan Felipe Aristizabal in Colombia. It's a combination of...
Sideyard Coffee: November 5: Blend 🇸🇻 + 🇨🇩 + 🇮🇩
November 5, 2021
Hello Sideyard Friends, We're catching up on some green beans from three recent single origin roasts this week. It's one part Sumatra, two parts Uganda, and...
Sideyard Coffee: Five Fridays in October 👻
October 25, 2021
Hello Sideyard Friends, October has five Fridays, which means Sideyard is ghosting for the week. 👻 No coffee deliveries or pickups this coming Friday. If it...
Sideyard Coffee: October 15 - Sumatra 🇮🇩 Mandheling + Saturday (10/16) Open House!
October 15, 2021
Hi Sideyard Friends, If you're free, please remember to stop by our roastery open house tomorrow morning (Saturday 10/16) between 9am and 12pm at 832 S Lyman...
Sideyard Coffee: October 8 - Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 🍇
October 8, 2021
Hello Sideyard Friends, Papua New Guinea is not known for producing natural process coffees, but that's what we've got this week! It's a medium roast that...
Sideyard Coffee: October 22 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Natural + What is Q Grading?
October 4, 2021
Hello Sideyard Friends, Thanks to everyone who made it out to the open house last Saturday! It was really nice to connect faces to names (and addresses) and...
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