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Colombia 🇨🇴 Huila Excelso 🍫🍒
April 11, 2025
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
April 4, 2025
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
March 28, 2025
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
March 21, 2025
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
March 14, 2025
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
March 7, 2025
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
February 28, 2025
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 🇨🇴🇮🇩🇺🇬
February 21, 2025
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
February 14, 2025
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 ❤️
February 7, 2025
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
January 24, 2025
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 🍑
January 17, 2025
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
January 10, 2025
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 🪩
January 3, 2025
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 🇨🇷/🇪🇹
December 20, 2024
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...
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...
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