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...
Sideyard Coffee: January 14 - PNG 🇵🇬 + Colombia 🇨🇴 Blend
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we've roasted up the remainder of two recent coffees–the natural Papua New Guinea from back in October and the more recent...
Sideyard Coffee: January 7 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Dry Process 🫐🍓
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from a lot that was grown on hundreds of extremely small farms in the Hambela Wamena region of Ethiopia. Until...
Sideyard Coffee: December 17 - Kenya 🇰🇪 + Nicaragua 🇳🇮 + Costa Rica Cascara 🎁
Hello Sideyard Friends, Sorry for the length on this one, but we've go two coffees, a small gift for subscribers, origin tracks, and a few last minute coffee...
Sideyard Coffee: December 10 - Colombia 🇨🇴 Huila El Tiple Supremo 🌰🍫🍒
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we're drinking a coffee from the Huila Department in southwest Colombia. Coffee has been cultivated in Colombia since the...
Sideyard Coffee: December 3 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Hambela Dabaye
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a dry process coffee from the Hambela Dabaye processing station in the Guji zone of Ethiopia. It's cleaner...
Sideyard Coffee: November 26 - Guatemala/Colombia Blend 🇬🇹 + 🇨🇴 + 🥧
Hello Sideyard Friends, Last week I suggested a 1:1 blend of the recent Colombia and this week's Guatemala. I was enjoying that combo so much that we decided...
Sideyard Coffee: November 19 - Guatemala Huehuetenango 🇬🇹🍫
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we're drinking a wet processed Guatemalan coffee from the Huehuetenango region. "Weh weh" for short. This fabled region is...
Sideyard Coffee: November 12: Colombia 🇨🇴 Anaerobic Fermentation Natural 🍋🍓
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we have an experimental process coffee, from the producer Juan Felipe Aristizabal in Colombia. It's a combination of...
Sideyard Coffee: November 5: Blend 🇸🇻 + 🇨🇩 + 🇮🇩
Hello Sideyard Friends, We're catching up on some green beans from three recent single origin roasts this week. It's one part Sumatra, two parts Uganda, and...
Sideyard Coffee: Five Fridays in October 👻
Hello Sideyard Friends, October has five Fridays, which means Sideyard is ghosting for the week. 👻 No coffee deliveries or pickups this coming Friday. If it...
Sideyard Coffee: October 15 - Sumatra 🇮🇩 Mandheling + Saturday (10/16) Open House!
Hi Sideyard Friends, If you're free, please remember to stop by our roastery open house tomorrow morning (Saturday 10/16) between 9am and 12pm at 832 S Lyman...
Sideyard Coffee: October 8 - Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 🍇
Hello Sideyard Friends, Papua New Guinea is not known for producing natural process coffees, but that's what we've got this week! It's a medium roast that...
Sideyard Coffee: October 22 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Natural + What is Q Grading?
Hello Sideyard Friends, Thanks to everyone who made it out to the open house last Saturday! It was really nice to connect faces to names (and addresses) and...
Sideyard Open House 🏡 Saturday, October 16, 9am-12pm
Hello Sideyard Friends, Please join us for an open house at the Sideyard garage/roastery on Saturday, October 16 between 9am and 12pm. We'll be doing...
Sideyard Coffee: October 1 - El Salvador 🇸🇻 and a familiar pop hook
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from El Salvador and it's roasted to a medium/dark (Full City+) level. I'm smelling caramel in the grounds and...
Sideyard Coffee: September 24 - 🇨🇩/🇨🇷/🇪🇹+🥂
Hi Sideyard Friends, This week we roasted up the remaining green beans from three recent origins and blended it all together (3 parts DRC, 2 parts Costa...
Sideyard Coffee: September 17 - DR Congo Virunga Blend 🇨🇩 🦍
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee comes from an area just outside the Virunga National Park in the DRC–an area better known as home to the...
Sideyard Coffee: September 10 - Guatemala 🇬🇹 + Barrie Fest!
Hi Sideyard Friends, Like last week's coffee, this week's is another single estate offering. It was grown by Don Evelio Villatoro in the Huehuetenango...
Sideyard Coffee: September 3 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji G1 Organic Mormora Natural 🍈
Hello Sideyard Friends, I don't usually weigh us all down with the full proper nit-picky naming details of the coffee from week to week, but I've been...
Sideyard Coffee: August 27 - Uganda 🇺🇬
Hello Sideyard Friends, Uganda used to be known strictly for robusta coffee, but in the last 10-15 years with the help of outside investments there has been...
Sideyard Coffee: August 20 - Costa Rica 🍒🍫
Hello Sideyard Friends, I'm a sucker for natural/dry processed coffees and this week's Costa Rica is a classic example. If you're new to the newsletter or...
Sideyard Subscription Prices & Payments Update ☕️ Please Read ☕️
Hi Sideyard Friends, Last summer we launched Sideyard Coffee with some simple goals in mind: roast delicious coffee, share what we’ve learned, and deliver it...
Sideyard Coffee: August 13 - Tanzania 🇹🇿 peaberry 🍏
Hi Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a Tanzanian peaberry. Peaberry coffee beans result from a genetic mutation that leaves just one seed to develop...
Sideyard Coffee: August 6 - Burundi 🇧🇮 🍋
Hello Sideyard Friends, We're starting August with a coffee from Burundi–one of two or three African coffees lined up for the month. It's got bright notes...
August Subscriptions
Hi Sideyard Friends, To go with this week's Colombian blend, here's an Afro-Colombian track by the Colombian Grupo Canalon de Timbiqui. Please send August...
Sideyard Coffee: July 23 - El Colo 🇸🇻 + 🇨🇴
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is comprised of the green beans that were left from two recent roasts. El Salvador and Colombia. Hence the El/Colo...
Sideyard Coffee: July 16 - Colombia 🇨🇴 Excelso 🍫
Hi Sideyard Friends, This week we're drinking coffee from Colombia. As a sweet tasting medium roast with notes that include milk chocolate, apple acidity,...