Mexico 🇲🇽 Chiapas Semi-Washed
Hello Sideyard Friends, Three weeks ago I replaced a thermocouple on our roaster and hoo-boy did it cause some consternation. The replacement was long...
Kenya 🇰🇪 Iyego Factory 🍍
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a washed process lot from the Iyego Factory Co-op in central Kenya. Flavor notes include chocolate, brown spice,...
Rwanda 🇷🇼 Peaberry 🍊
Hello Sideyard Friends, Happy Spring. This week’s coffee is another peaberry lot, but this one’s from Tanzania’s neighbor to the northwest–Rwanda. I’m...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji 🥭
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Guji zone in the Oromia region in southern Ethiopia. It’s a delicate natural process lot, with lighter...
Blend Week 🇨🇴🇹🇿🇮🇩
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee was roasted, bagged, and delivered today. If you’re starting on it this weekend, look out for a bigger bloom from...
Colombia 🇨🇴 Huila Excelso 🍫🍒
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Huila region of Colombia. The Excelso designation is Colobmia’s coffee industry parlance for the...
Tanzania 🇹🇿 Peaberry
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a peaberry coffee from Tanzania. The Peaberry classification refers to a genetic anomaly in coffee trees that...
East African Blend 🇪🇹🇰🇪🇷🇼 + Cleaning Tips
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a blend of three recent East African coffees—Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda. It’s tasting great—milk chocolate,...
Rwanda 🇷🇼 Nyamiyago Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee comes to us from a washing station in Nyamiyago town, Rwanda that serves nearly 3,000 local farmers in the...
Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Tarrazú
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee comes to us from the Tarrazú region of Costa Rica. It was processed by the Cerro La Cruz mill as a “white honey”,...
Kenya 🇰🇪 Othaya Co-op
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Othaya Farmer’s Cooperative in Kenya. So far I’m tasting bright citrus, brown sugar, and cinnamon. As...
Rwanda 🇷🇼 Rulindo
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Rulindo district in Northern Provence, Rwanda. Rwanda produces roughly 20,000 metric tons of coffee...
Blend Week 🇨🇴🇮🇩🇺🇬
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s big-bodied blend offers a great contrast against last week’s light and bright Ethiopia. The blend comprises three parts...
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Chelchele 🇪🇹 Natural
Hello Sideyard Friends, When we had this coffee for the first time back in November I immediately ordered more. It hits some of my favorite notes—moderate...
Colombia Tolima Washed 🇨🇴 + Valentine's Promo ❤️
Hello Sideyard Friends, A few weeks ago I ordered two different green coffees from Colombia. It had been a while since we roasted a Colombia, the prices fit...
Blend Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, We bumped the roast day again this week, so this week’s coffee is another fresher-than-average roast. It’s a blend of the last three...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Limu 🍑
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee comes to us from the Limu region of the Oromia zone in west-central Ethiopia. Limu is not as well know as areas...
Bali 🇮🇩 Semi-Washed
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a semi-washed process coffee from Bali. The flavor profile includes dark chocolate, fig, honey, and black tea,...
Mexico 🇲🇽 Chiapas + 2024 Year in Review 🪩
Hello Sideyard Friends, Happy New Year! Thanks for all your support in 2024. All told, we roasted 2055 pounds of coffee from 22 different origins, and biked...
This Week's Costa Rica 🇨🇷 + Next Week's Blend 🇨🇷/🇪🇹
Hello Sideyard Friends, Michael delivered this week’s and next week’s coffee tonight. Eighty plus bags of coffee is a stretch for the cargo bike, but we like...