Nicaragua 🇳🇮 La Bastilla Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee was grown and processed by the renowned La Bastilla Coffee Estate in the Jinotega region of Nicaragua. Like all...
Kenya 🇰🇪 AA
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is a washed process Kenya. At two days post-roast, I’m already tasting black cherry, bright fruits, and roasted...
off week reminder 🗓️
Hello Sideyard Friends, Just a quick reminder that today is a fifth Friday, so no Sideyard deliveries or pickups. The co-op has lots of great local roaster...
Blend week + no coffee next week
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s blend includes four recent coffees and clears the deck for September’s incoming coffees. It’s on the lighter end of...
Peru 🇵🇪 Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, We ran into some rain last night with deliveries and had to reset and finish deliveries this morning! So if you didn’t find coffee on...
Brazil 🇧🇷 Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, We haven’t roasted a lot of Brazilian coffees—only five in a little over four years to be exact! It’s mostly due to the fact that I...
Burundi 🇧🇮 Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, Aaaand we’re back! This week’s roast is a deliciously complex coffee from a criminally under-appreciated origin. It’s quite refined...
Two Weeks of Coffee + July Sabbatical + 🧊☕️ Recipe
Hello Sideyard Friends, Sideyard is taking the month of July off, so this is the last delivery/pickup until Friday, August 2. Subscription payments are...
Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 + Partial Delivery Delay
Hello Sideyard Friends, Due to a tech snafu with our delivery routing app, we ran short on time for deliveries today. A handful of deliveries did happen and...
Peru 🇵🇪 Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is one of those coffees that I’m already missing before it’s gone. It’s a dry process Peru from the Alto Pirias....
Off-week reminder
Hello Sideyard Friends, Just a quick reminder that there’s no coffee this week (fifth Friday). If you’re fresh out of coffee, the co-op usually has a great...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji + No Coffee Next Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the mountainous volcanic soils of the Guji zone in southern Ethiopia. Despite neighboring the Sidama...
East Africa Blend 🇰🇪🇹🇿🇪🇹
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is a blend of three East African coffees: Kenya, Tanzania natural, and Ethiopia Yirgacheffe. It starts with a nice...
Rwanda 🇷🇼 Gitwe Peaberry
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Gitwe washing station in the Nyamasheke District of Rwanda. Kenya and Ethiopia get most of the coffee...
Kenya 🇰🇪 Tatu Estate
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Tatu Coffee Estate in central Kenya. Like many farms in Kenya, much of Tatu is planted with the famed...
Tanzania 🇹🇿 Natural
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Songwe region of Tanzania. It’s a natural process coffee, but the effect of the processing is subtle....
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Yirgacheffe 🌸
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is a washed coffee from the Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia. We had it a couple months ago and I liked it enough to...
Blend Week 🇨🇷🇺🇬🇨🇴
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a blend of the three most recent coffees. I was going to wait another couple weeks for this blend, but I felt...
Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Tarrazú Hot Springs Washed
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the Tarrazú region of Costa Rica. The region is known for inventive and wizard-level coffee processing...
Bye-week + April Subscription Info
Hello Sideyard Friends, It's a fifth-Friday-week, which means no coffee this week. April renewal payments will be processed Sunday night and for the first...
Uganda 🇺🇬 Ruwenzori Natural + Roast Level Survey
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a natural process lot from the Rwenzori mountain region of Uganda. After two days rest, I'm tasting black tea,...
Blend Week 🇲🇽🇨🇷🇪🇹
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a blend of recent coffees from Mexico, Costa Rica, and Ethiopia. I'm tasting the fruitier parts of the latter...
Colombia 🇨🇴 Huila Excelso
Hello Sideyard Friends, Check out the size of those beans! That's what an "excelso" designation from the Colombia Coffee Federation looks like. Size is not...
⚠️ Delivery Rain Delay 🌧️
Today's delivery is delayed and will go out tomorrow morning. If you're fresh out of coffee, we'd be happy to arrange a porch pickup tonight or first thing...
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe 🇪🇹 Washed Process
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 🇨🇷🇰🇪🇧🇷
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 🇧🇷
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 ✨
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 🇨🇷 🍯
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
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 🇧🇷 🇪🇹 🇰🇪
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 🇲🇽
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 ⚠️
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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 🇨🇷 🍯
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
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
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 🍅
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 🇲🇽🇳🇮🇨🇴🇨🇷
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...
Sideyard Notes: Mexico 🇲🇽 Chipas Semi-washed 🍫🍓
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the state of Chiapas in the south of Mexico. I pushed it toward the darker end of medium. I.e., a slightly...
Sideyard Notes: Nicaragua 🇳🇮 La Bastilla Washed + Extras in stock
Hello Sideyard Friends, Happy Friday the 13th. The only unlucky thing about today’s coffee is that it got delivered in the rain (again). The coffee itself,...
Sideyard Notes: El Salvador 🇸🇻 Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a fruity dry process coffee from Luis Duarte's Finca San Luis in El Salvador. The first thing you'll notice is...
Fifth Friday + Coffee in the Side Yard ☕️ + Solar Homes Tour ⚡️
Hello Sideyard Friends, Tomorrow is a fifth Friday, which makes it a bye week in our roast schedule. If you're running short on coffee, however, stop by for...
Sideyard Notes: East African Trio Week 🇨🇩🇹🇿🇰🇪 No Coffee Next Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a blend of three East African coffees--Tanzania peaberry, Kenya, and Congo. See previous tasting notes for...
Sideyard Notes: Burundi 🇧🇮 Ewe Burundi
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a dry process from Burundi. It's on the understated and less funky end of the dry processing spectrum. I don't...