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...
Sideyard Notes: Colombia Huila 🇨🇴 + Barrie Fest Saturday 9/9!
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a solid medium roast from the Huila region of Colombia. The flavor notes include a base of milk chocolate and...
Sideyard Notes: Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Natural Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the processing magicians at the SanDiego mill in Costa Rica. With notes that include plum, sangria, and...
Sideyard Notes: Blend Week 🇵🇪 + 🇪🇹 + 🇨🇷
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a blend of recent leftover greens from Peru, Costa Rica, and Ethiopia. Our garage-roastery was pretty pretty hot...
Sideyard Notes: Kenya 🇰🇪
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee comes from small holder famers in central Kenya. Kenyan coffees are generally more expensive than coffees from...
Sideyard Notes: Congo 🇨🇩 Coopade Cooperative 🦍
Hello Sideyard Friends, Sorry for the late notes... I just got back to town after a week away with extended family. Coincidentally, we drank a lot of...
Sideyard Notes: Costa Rica Tarrazú 🇨🇷 Honey Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, We're back! Thanks for enduring our July sabbatical; we hope you found some delicious coffee in Sideyard's stead. The roaster is in...
July Coffee Pause Reminder 🎂
Hello Sideyard Friends, Sorry if you missed the note in the June 30 newsletter and you've been wondering what happened to your coffee! Sideyard turned three...
Sideyard Notes: No Coffee this week + July Subscription Pause for All
Hello Sideyard Friends, I hope you're enjoying last week's Tanzania peaberry! Sorry I missed the notes email on that one–call it a casualty of my family's...
Sideyard Notes: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Dry Process Macuba
Hello Sideyard Friends, Hello from the road and sorry for the delayed notes! This week’s coffee, as you’ve already gathered, is another one from Ethiopia. As...
Sideyard Notes: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Yirgacheffe 🧊 ☕️
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the famed Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia. It's a washed process coffee with mild-mannered acidity, medium...
Sideyard Notes: Peru 🇵🇪 Warmikuna* Women's Co-Op 🪩
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a re-up of the coffee we had back in the first week of April. I heard from a few folks that really enjoyed it,...
Sideyard Notes: Blend Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a blend of four recent origins. It's a bright medium roast. I think the recent Peru and Colombia are coming...
Sideyard Notes: Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 Peaberry 🫛
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a peaberry Papua New Guinea. As I've noted before, Peaberry coffee comes from a genetic anomaly in the coffee...
Sideyard ☕️ Delivery Delay ⚠️
Hello Sideyard Friends, With apologies, this week's coffee delivery is delayed until tomorrow morning. If you're fresh out of coffee and would like to pickup...
Sideyard Notes: El Salvador 🇸🇻 Porque Llorar
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from El Salvador. The processing station, run by Alejandro Valiente, recently achieved energy independence...
Sideyard Notes: Congo 🇨🇩 Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a dry process Congo. Like most coffees, the best time to take note of what you're tasting is neither right when...
Sideyard Notes: Colombia 🇨🇴 Narino 🌋
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the Narino department in the western corner of Colombia. The region is know for having six volcanoes,...
Sideyard Notes: Kenya 🇰🇪 Muthunzuuni Co-op
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a Kenyan coffee from the Muthunzuuni co-op. Kenyan coffees are famously dense, which has implications for both...
Sideyard Notes: West Java 🇮🇩 Wet Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a wet process coffee from West Java. It's a clean tasting cup (especially compared to many Indonesian coffees!),...
Sideyard Notes: Peru 🇵🇪 Warmikuna Collective
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from a collective of 55 women coffee growers in the Junin region in northwest Peru. The name Warmikuna means...
Sideyard Coffee Notes: Blend Week 🇮🇩 🇨🇩 🇨🇴 + No Coffee Next Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a blend of recent spare greens from Java, Colombia, and Congo. It's the earthy wet process notes (tobacco and...
Sideyard Notes: Rwanda 🇷🇼 Honey Process Gatare
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a Rwanda honey process from the Gatare mill. The Gatare mill in western Rwanda was set up in 2003 and was one...
Sideyard Coffee Notes: Mexico 🇲🇽 + First Batch Coffee Offer
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from Mexico! It's a first for us and it's a delicious one at that. Caramel, cinnamon, and cocoa are the top...
Sideyard Coffee Notes: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Benti Nenka Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a dry process Ethiopia from the Benti Nenka area. As ever with dry process lots, this coffee was a bit of a...
Sideyard Coffee Notes: Colombia 🇨🇴 🍫 🍒
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a washed process coffee from Colombia. It's a solid medium roast and I'm picking up milk chocolate, a nutty...
Sideyard Coffee Notes: Uganda 🇺🇬 + Guatemala 🇬🇹 Blend | spares in stock!
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a 2:1 blend of leftover greens from the recent Uganda and Guatemala roasts. The first thing that hit me was how...
Sideyard Coffee: February 10 - Ethiopia Guji 🇪🇹 Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is an Ethiopian dry process coffee from the Guiji zone in southern Ethiopia. On the spectrum of funky dry process...
Sideyard Coffee: February 3 - Guatemala 🇬🇹 Huehuetenango Organic
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the remote Huehuetenango region of Guatemala. The region has ideal growing and processing conditions for...
Sideyard Coffee: January 27 - West Java Blue 🇮🇩
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a wet-hulled process coffee from West Java. It gets its blue moniker simply due to the fact that the green...
Sideyard Coffee: January 20 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from a producer by the name of Abiyot Agaze. His processing station is in the Western Guji Zone in Ethiopia and...
Sideyard Coffee: January 13 - Five Origin Blend + Stickers
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a catch-up blend of five different East African and Central American coffees. I think it turned out great. I say...
Sideyard Coffee: January 6 - DR Congo 🇨🇩 🦍
Hello Sideyard Friends, Happy 2023. This week's coffee is from the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's produced by a cooperative of farms that sit along the...
Sideyard Coffee - ⚠️ Delivery Delay 🥶
Hello Sideyard Friends, Due to the extreme cold, this week's coffee deliveries are delayed until Saturday morning. If you're fresh out of coffee and would...
Sideyard Coffee: December 16 - Uganda 🇺🇬 Dry Process 🍉 + In Defense of Not-Quite-Hot Coffee
Hello Sideyard Friends, As it does every winter, it's about to get cold here in Chicagoland. Really cold. And the colder it gets, the more I want to be...