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...
Sideyard Coffee: June 10 - Burundi 🇧🇮 🌸
Hello Sideyard Friends, Due to the annual Sideyard Coffee corporate retreat 😉, this week's coffee is a day early! If you're expecting coffee this week,...
Sideyard Coffee: June 3 - Guatemala 🇬🇹 Huehue + coffee 📰
Hello Sideyard Friends, How about some good news? A newly published study found that coffee may decrease mortality! The researches aren't sure if it's the...
Sideyard Coffee: May 27 - Blend 🇮🇩+🇹🇿+🇷🇼, June subscriptions, and a website!
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a blend of three different origins: Java, Tanzania, and Rwanda. It's tasting great with the West Java leading...
Sideyard Coffee: May 20 - Colombia 🇨🇴 Huila El Bombo 🍫🍒 Extras!!
Hello Sideyard Friends, We decided to take advantage of today's nice biking weather to get this week's subscription deliveries out a day early! If you were...
Sideyard Coffee: May 13 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Dry Process Shantawene 🍓🍑
Hello Sideyard Friends, When I first started roasting coffee, I stumbled into a dry process Ethiopia that blew my mind. I can't say it was better than...
Sideyard Coffee: Tanzania 🇹🇿 Peaberry 🟢
Hello Sideyard Friends, If any seed could be described as cute, it's the peaberry! Peaberries occur as a result of a genetic anomaly that causes a small...
Sideyard Coffee: Where's My Coffee?
Hello Sideyard Friends, Read on if you're a subscriber wondering why there were no deliveries Friday. Sorry for the unintended surprise of not receiving...
Sideyard Coffee: Brazil 🇧🇷 🍫
Hi Sideyard Friends, This week's subscription roast is from the Fazenda Santo Antonio farm in Brazil. Thales Donizete set up this farm in 2010 and has spent...
Sideyard Coffee ☕️ ⚠️ ⛈ Deliveries Delayed
Hi Sideyard Friends, Due to inclement weather, this week's coffee delivery is delayed until Saturday morning. If you're fresh out, reply here and we can make...
Sideyard Coffee: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Dry Process 🫐🌸 Nensebo Refisa
Hi Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a powerhouse dry process cup that's fruited, perfumed, and rustic all at once. The wet aroma has cooked fruits...
Sideyard Coffee: April 8 - Rwanda 🇷🇼 Kayumbu Station Natural 🍏💫
Hi Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a natural Rwanda, processed at the Kayumbu Washing Station in central Rwanda. I'm tasting green apple, starfruit,...
Sideyard Coffee: April 1 - West Java 🇮🇩🍒🥤
Hello Sideyard Friends, Calling coffee "java" has it's roots waaay back in the 1700s when coffee from Java was the first coffee to circulate widely outside...
Sideyard Coffee: March 25 - Costa Rica/Peru 🇨🇷/🇵🇪
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a 1:1 blend of a honey process Costa Rica and washed process Peru. It's a Full City roast (the darker end of...
Sidyeard Coffee: March 18 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji Blend 🍫🍓
Hello Sideyard Friends, In order to get caught up on some recent leftover green beans, this week's roast is a three part Ethiopia blend. All three are...
Sideyard Coffee: March 11 - El Salvador 🇸🇻 Finca Miravalle
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we're drinking a coffee from the Finca Miravalle farm in the foothills of El Salvador's Santa Ana volcano. It's a washed...
Sideyard Coffee: March 4 - Sumatra 🇮🇩 Gayo Natural 🍍🍅🍇
Hello Sideyard Friends, It's unusual to find natural process coffees coming out of Sumatra and it's even more unusual for them to taste as good as this one...
Sideyard Coffee: February 25 - Brazil 🇧🇷 + March Subscriptions + Extras
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 🍫🍋
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
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 🇪🇹 + 🛥 🪨
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 🇬🇹 🍒🍫
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 ❄️
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 🍯
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...