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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...
Two Weeks of Coffee + July Sabbatical + 🧊☕️ Recipe
June 21, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, Sideyard is taking the month of July off, so this is the last delivery/pickup until Friday, August 2. Subscription payments are...
Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 + Partial Delivery Delay
June 14, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, Due to a tech snafu with our delivery routing app, we ran short on time for deliveries today. A handful of deliveries did happen and...
Peru 🇵🇪 Dry Process
June 7, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s roast is one of those coffees that I’m already missing before it’s gone. It’s a dry process Peru from the Alto Pirias....
Off-week reminder
May 31, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, Just a quick reminder that there’s no coffee this week (fifth Friday). If you’re fresh out of coffee, the co-op usually has a great...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji + No Coffee Next Week
May 25, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the mountainous volcanic soils of the Guji zone in southern Ethiopia. Despite neighboring the Sidama...
East Africa Blend 🇰🇪🇹🇿🇪🇹
May 17, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is a blend of three East African coffees: Kenya, Tanzania natural, and Ethiopia Yirgacheffe. It starts with a nice...
Rwanda 🇷🇼 Gitwe Peaberry
May 10, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Gitwe washing station in the Nyamasheke District of Rwanda. Kenya and Ethiopia get most of the coffee...
Kenya 🇰🇪 Tatu Estate
May 3, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Tatu Coffee Estate in central Kenya. Like many farms in Kenya, much of Tatu is planted with the famed...
Tanzania 🇹🇿 Natural
April 27, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is from the Songwe region of Tanzania. It’s a natural process coffee, but the effect of the processing is subtle....
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