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...
Sideyard Coffee: December 9 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Washed + Irving Holiday Craft Fair + Decaf
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a washed coffee from western Ethiopia. I'm tasting syrupy-sweet stone fruit, browned sugar, and an orange floral...
Sideyard Coffee: December 2 - Guatemala 🇬🇹 La Morena 🦕
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is part of an initiative called La Morena that was set up specifically to support female coffee growers in...
Sideyard Coffee: December 23 - Costa Rica 🇨🇷 🎄
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a washed Costa Rica. It's a clean-tasting medium roast that's bringing balance to the last few weeks of funky...
Sideyard Gift Subscriptions ☕️+🎁
Hello Sideyard Friends, In lieu of the weekly newsletter (no deliveries this week), I'd love to simply remind everyone that we offer gift subscriptions. If...
Sideyard Coffee: November 18 & 25 - Java Wet Hulled 🇮🇩 + Uganda Natural 🇺🇬
Hello Sideyard Friends, To avoid Thanksgiving delivery complications, this week we roasted and delivered this week's and next week's coffees. The two coffees...
Sideyard Coffee: November 11 - Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Analynn Garro 🍒🍯
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a washed coffee from Analynn Garro's farm in Costa Rica. Garro started farming coffee in the 1990s and after a...
Sideyard Coffee: November 4 - Rwanda 🇷🇼 Dry Process + Caffeine Myths
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a Rwanda dry process, roasted to the darker side of medium. It should delight dry process fans in particular....
Sideyard Coffee: October 28 - Blend 🎃+👻+🍁
Hello Sideyard Friends, Happy Halloween. This week's coffee is a catch-up blend. We're roasting roughly 50lbs of green coffee per week these days, while our...
Sideyard Coffee: October 21 - Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Tarrazu Honey 🍯 Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the Tarrazu region of Costa Rica and it's a honey process. Honey processing was pioneered by Costa Rican...
Sideyard Coffee: October 14 - Colombia 🇨🇴 🍫 🍎
Hello Sideyard Friends, Remember that five second clip in Encanto of coffee getting cranked through a manual coffee pulping machine? Just me? Either way,...
Sideyard Coffee: October 7 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji Natural
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the Mormora farm in Ethiopia. Located in the Guji Zone, most of Mormora's coffee is from heirloom varietal...
Sideyard Coffee - No Coffee This Week + October Subscriptions start next week!
Hello Sideyard Friends, Today is the fifth Friday of September, which means no Sideyard deliveries this week. [Insert coffee cup with sad face emoji here]....
Sideyard Coffee: September 23 - Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 ☀️
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee comes from Simbai, Papua New Guinea–a remote valley region known for rich volcanic soils and thousands of small...
Sideyard Coffee: September 16 - Burundi 🇧🇮 + Burundi Black
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a Burundi dry process. We've had a run of wet process coffees lately, and I didn't realized how much I was...
Sideyard Coffee: September 9 - Blend 🇰🇪🇨🇴🇪🇹
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is another catch up blend. It features coffees from Colombia, Kenya, and Ethiopia and it's a few ticks darker...
Sideyard Coffee: September 2 - Colombia 🇨🇴 Nariño 🍮
Hello Sideyard Friends, The farms that grew this week's coffee sit on land that is 5,500-7,200 ft above sea level–some of the highest grown coffee in the...
Sideyard Coffee: August 26 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 🍈 Guji
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the Dawa Basin of Ethiopia. It's a washed process coffee from heirloom shrubs that have been cultivated...
Sideyard Coffee: August 19 - Kenya 🇰🇪 Iyego Co-op 🍯
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from Kenya. It starts out brighter than average and as it cools it mellows into notes of plum, honey, and...
Sideyard Coffee: August 12 - Blend Week 🇬🇹🇳🇮🇵🇬
Hello Sideyard Friends, I'm headed out of town for the weekend, so coffee's a day early this week! It's a blend of three different coffees to help us get...
Sideyard Coffee: August 5 - Colombia Huila 🇨🇴 Double Fermentation 🍈🍇
Hello Sideyard Friends, Does anyone find their thoughts drifting to that 80's/90's era Doublemint TV ad campaign featuring pairs of twins and the awkward...
☕️ No Sideyard Coffee This Week ☕️
Hello Sideyard Friends, Tomorrow is the fifth Friday of July, which makes it an off week for Sideyard. If you're running low on coffee, we encourage you to...
Sideyard Coffee: July 22 - West Java 🇮🇩 + Decaf in stock + No Deliveries Next Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, Usually, by the time I've discovered how much I like a recently roasted coffee, lots of other roasters have as well and the green is...
Sideyard Coffee: July 15 - Rwanda 🇷🇼 Dry Process 🍓🍫
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a Rwandan coffee, dry processed at the Macuba station in Macuba town of Rwanda's Western Province. It has a...
Sideyard Coffee: July 8 - Nicaragua 🇳🇮 La Bastilla Yeast Fermentation
Hello Sideyard Friends, Historically, Nicaragua coffee production has focused more on quantity over quality. Despite a population of just 6.5 million,...
Sideyard Coffee: July 1 - Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 Natural Process 🍈
Hello Sideyard Friends, July marks two years of Sideyard Coffee! Over these past two years, we've biked more than 700 miles delivering coffee to friends and...
Sideyard Coffee: June 24 - Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Termico ✨ & July Subscriptions
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a termico process Costa Rica. The experimental termico (thermic) process was developed by the owner of the...
Sideyard Coffee: June 17 - Peru 🇵🇪 + Japanese Iced Coffee! 🧊☕️
Hello Sideyard Friends, Even in the heat of the summer I like a hot cup of coffee first thing in the morning. The second cup though? Japanese style iced...