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Ethiopia Guji 🇪🇹 Buku Sayisa 🫐
December 13, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, Due to our importers’ relationships with growers and processing stations, we often end up buying the same coffees from one year to...
Uganda 🇺🇬 Rwenzori Natural
December 6, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee comes to us from the Rwenzori mountain region of Uganda. It’s a natural process lot with a great aroma (seriously,...
No coffee this week (fifth Friday)
November 29, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, Today is the fifth Friday in November. As such, Sideyard has the week off. December subscription payments will process Sunday. Please...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 + Mexico 🇲🇽
November 23, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a blend of Ethiopia Guji and Mexico Los Altos. They’re nigh perfect compliments for each other as it ends up...
Mexico 🇲🇽 Los Altos, Chiapas
November 15, 2024
This week’s coffee is from the Los Altos region of Chiapas, Mexico. It’s an obvious departure from the recent natural Ethiopia and Costa Rica offerings, but...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Yirgacheffe 🫐
November 8, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is a natural process lot from the Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia. Flavor notes include milk chocolate, black tea,...
Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Anaerobic Process
November 2, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, [oops… drafted this last night and forgot to hit send!] This week’s roast is an anaerobic process coffee from the Tarrazú region of...
Blend Week 🇮🇩/🇨🇷
October 25, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is a 50/50 blend of the recent Costa Rica natural and the Sumatra wet hulled. I’ve only brewed one pot so far, but...
Sumatra 🇮🇩 Weh Ilang Wet Hulled
October 17, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee (one day early this week) is from the Wet Ilang region of Sumatra. It’s a high grown (1600 meters above sea...
Costa Rica 🇨🇷 San Diego Natural
October 11, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the San Diego mill in Costa Rica. The top notes are milk chocolate and almond, followed by cane sugar and...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji 🫐 🍈
October 4, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee (the first of two Ethiopias we have lined up for October) is a dry process lot from the Guji region of Ethiopia....
Blend 🇰🇪🇳🇮🇨🇩 Week
September 27, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is a blend of the three most recent coffees–Kenya, Nicaragua, and D.R. Congo. For perhaps selfish reasons, I’ve...
D.R. Congo 🇨🇩 Coopade Cooperative
September 20, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from an area in the DR Congo that borders the Virunga National Park. It was processed by the Coopade...
Nicaragua 🇳🇮 La Bastilla Dry Process
September 13, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee was grown and processed by the renowned La Bastilla Coffee Estate in the Jinotega region of Nicaragua. Like all...
Kenya 🇰🇪 AA
September 6, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is a washed process Kenya. At two days post-roast, I’m already tasting black cherry, bright fruits, and roasted...
off week reminder 🗓️
August 30, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, Just a quick reminder that today is a fifth Friday, so no Sideyard deliveries or pickups. The co-op has lots of great local roaster...
Blend week + no coffee next week
August 23, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s blend includes four recent coffees and clears the deck for September’s incoming coffees. It’s on the lighter end of...
Peru 🇵🇪 Dry Process
August 17, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, We ran into some rain last night with deliveries and had to reset and finish deliveries this morning! So if you didn’t find coffee on...
Brazil 🇧🇷 Dry Process
August 9, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, We haven’t roasted a lot of Brazilian coffees—only five in a little over four years to be exact! It’s mostly due to the fact that I...
Burundi 🇧🇮 Dry Process
August 2, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, Aaaand we’re back! This week’s roast is a deliciously complex coffee from a criminally under-appreciated origin. It’s quite refined...
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