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Costa Rica Tarrazú 🇨🇷 Honey Process 🫏
November 7, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a honey process coffee from Tica Linda—a women owned processing facility in Tarrazú, Costa Rica. Honey process...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji Natural
October 24, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Guji region of Ethiopia. It’s a fully sun-dried natural process coffee with notes of tropical fruit,...
Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬
October 17, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from Papua New Guinea and it’s about as dark and brooding a brew as we get here at Sideyard. Hopefully it’ll...
Blend Week 🇲🇽🇪🇹
October 11, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a blend of natural process coffees from Ethiopia and Mexico. After one day’s rest I’m tasting bright fruited...
Mexico Finca Fatima 🇲🇽 Natural Process 🌀
October 3, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, Natural process coffees are naturally difficult to roast (naturally) because of how they’re processed. Letting the coffee cherries...
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe 🇪🇹 Natural Process
September 26, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a natural process coffee from the Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia. I’m tasting tropical fruit, brown spice, plum,...
Mexico/Tanzania 🇲🇽/🇹🇿
September 19, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a blend of washed process coffees from Mexico and Tanzania. With both coffees bringing dark chocolate and brown...
West Java Blue 🇮🇩 Semi-washed Process
September 12, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is semi-washed process coffee from West Java, Indonesia. It shares an aromatic woodsy note with last week’s...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Aba Bulgu
September 5, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a delightfully complex coffee that comes to us from farmer Abdurhiman Aba Bulgu in the Duromina area of...
Fifth Friday Reminder - No Coffee This Week
August 29, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, Just a quick note to remind subscribers that it’s a fifth Friday week, which means no deliveries or pickups this week. We’ll be back...
Mexico 🇲🇽 Finca Fatima | No Coffee Next Week
August 22, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee comes from Finca Fatima, a third generation coffee farm in Coatepec, Veracruz. In the 1970’s the farm switched to...
Tanzania 🇹🇿 Usawa Kahawa Project
August 15, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee comes from a lot comprised of ~300 small holder farmers in southern Tanzania who produce with a commitment to...
Nicaragua 🇳🇮 / Papua New Guinea 🇬🇳
August 8, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, There’s a learning curve when roasting any new coffee for the first time. Every coffee responds a little differently to heat and...
Nicaragua 🇳🇮 La Bastilla Natural
August 1, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, Thanks for enduring the July pause in operations here at Sideyard! :) We’re excited to be back this week with a fruity natural...
Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 + July Sabbatical + Price Increase
June 27, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This is the last roast and delivery until Friday, August 1st. We take July off for roaster maintenance and summer shenanigans. I hit...
Guatemala Huehuetenago 🇬🇹 Flory Villatoro
June 20, 2025
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...
Rwanda Kageyo 💥 Natural Process
June 13, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a juicy dry process coffee from the Ngororero district of Rwanda. With notes of blueberry, melon, strawberry,...
Burundi 🇧🇮 Gakenke
June 6, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Gakenke washing station in northern Burundi. It’s a bright washed process coffee with notes of black...
Fifth Friday - No Coffee This Week
May 30, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, Just a quick reminder that there aren’t any deliveries or pickups this week. The Sugar Beet Co-op has lots of local roastery options...
Blend Week 🇪🇹/🇲🇽 + Bye Week Next Friday
May 23, 2025
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a 50/50 combo of Ethiopia Guji and Mexico Chiapas. It’s tasting great. I’m getting praline, mango, lychee, dark...
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