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,...
Sideyard Coffee: July 9 - Sulawesi 🇮🇩
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we're drinking a coffee from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. It's a medium bodied medium roasted coffee that's a few...
Sideyard Coffee: July 2 - El Salvador 🇸🇻 + 🎉
Hello Sideyard Friends, Sideyard Coffee turns one year old this week! Whether you grab the occasional spare bag, are just starting up a subscription, or...
Sideyard Coffee: June 25 - Burundi 🇧🇮 + 🤞
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we're drinking a coffee from Burundi. It was roasted yesterday and after one night's rest I'm tasting some nice spiced...
Sideyard Coffee: June 18 - Guatemala 🇬🇹 🍮 + extras
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we're drinking a coffee from Guatemala. I'm tasting caramel (flan?), nuttiness, and a touch of bitter chocolate in the...
Sideyard Coffee: June 11 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Yirgacheffe 🍓🍌 + extras
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we're drinking a coffee from the renowned Yirgacheffe district of Ethiopia. It's a natural/dry processed coffee, meaning...
Sideyard Coffee: June 4 - Colombia 🇨🇴 + 📦
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's single origin roast is comprised of coffee from small producers in towns in the southwestern part of Colombia. The dry...
Sideyard Coffee: May 28 - Ethiopia Yirgacheffe 🇪🇹 🍋 + 3 extras
Hello Sideyard Friends, When the weather is cool, as it's been these last few days, it's tempting to drink one's coffee at mouth-scalding temperatures. Also,...
Sideyard Coffee: May 21- Flores 🇮🇩 🌋
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we're drinking a coffee grown on farms in close proximity to the Wawo Muda volcano on the Indonesian island of Flores....
Sideyard Coffee: May 14 - Peru 🇵🇪 + 3 extras
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we're drinking a coffee from Peru. It's a solid medium roast in my book. I'm smelling cocoa and brown sugars in the dry...
Sideyard Coffee: May 7 - Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee comes from a new origin for Sideyard and holy Moses check out that flag! It features the Southern Cross...
Sideyard Coffee: May Subscriptions 🗓
Hello Sideyard Friends, Happy May Day and thanks to those of you who have already picked up a bag of free coffee. There’s are still bags available Please...
Sideyard Coffee: Bye Week, Free Coffee ⚾️
Hello Sideyard Friends, We're on a bye week (in sports parlance) for Sideyard deliveries. However, I have this batch of coffee I roasted a few weeks ago that...
Sideyard Coffee: April 23 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji Shakiso 🍓
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is probably my favorite of the April deliveries. It's dark and fruity and a just a touch funky (as many natural...
Sideyard Coffee: April 16 - Guatemala Ayarza + 1000 bags 🎉
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee was grown by a producer named Francisco Najera in the Arayaza region of Guatemala. His farm is located near a...
Sideyard Coffee: April 9 - Ethiopia Bekele Heto micro lot 🍒🍋*
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a single farm micro lot from the Halo Bariti washing station in southern Ethiopia. The importer describes the...
Sideyard Coffee: April 2 - Moka Java Blend 🇪🇹 +🇮🇩+🦄
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a version of the world's oldest blend-Moka Java. Traditionally, it comprised coffees from the port of al-Makha...
Sideyard Coffee: March 26 - Burundi Natural 🇧🇮 + April Subscriptions
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week we're drinking another coffee from Burundi and my first taste of it was a shot in the arm on an otherwise gray Thursday...
Sideyard Coffee - March 19, Brazil 🇧🇷 🥜
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a Yellow Catuai cultivar from Chapada de Minas Brazil. Catuai was hybridized in the 1970s for its ease of...
Sideyard Coffee - March 12, Burundi 🇧🇮 Commune Mutambu
Hi Sideyard Friends, Let's start with this amazing track by Burundi native Canjo Hamisi. I have no idea what the lyrics are and there's very little...
Sideyard Coffee: March 5 - Guatemala 🇬🇹 La Libertad + 🔥🥗
Dear Sideyard Friends, Every Thursday I wake up slightly nervous because I know I have to try a new coffee that I roasted the day before. I've usually...
Sideyard Coffee: February 26 - Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Dumerso 🇪🇹 🐐
Dear Sideyard Friends, It's Ethiopia week! The Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia is widely regarded as the birthplace of coffee, in part due to a story...
Sideyard Coffee: February 19 - Kenya 🇰🇪 Peaberry
Dear Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is another unique one; it's a peaberry from Nyeri Kenya. Rather than two seeds that develop flat sides while...
Quick clarification...
A subscriber correctly points out that there are only zero Black elected officials on the *Village Board of Trustees*. Other Oak Park governmental bodies do...
Sideyard Coffee: February 12 - Guatemala 🇬🇹 Carbonic Maceration🍷!
Dear Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is fun one. It was produced with a processing method borrowed from wine making known as 'carbonic maceration'. If...
Sideyard Coffee: February 5 - Java Java 🇮🇩
Dear Sideyard Friends, Please rescue your coffee from your porch or mailbox when you have a minute! It's cold out there. Java from Java... When the Dutch...
Sideyard Coffee: January 29 - African blend 🇨🇩+🇪🇹+💤
Dear Sideyard Friends, I intended for this week's coffee to be last week's coffee but after roasting and tasting I decided that it needed a few extra days of...
Sideyard Coffee: January 23 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹🚰
Dear Sideyard Friends, I shouldn't have chickened out on bike delivery this morning due to the cold. Despite the temps it was a beautiful morning to be out....
Sideyard Coffee: January 15 - Ethiopia Natural Guji Shakiso 🇪🇹
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee comes from the remote town of Shakiso in southern Ethiopia. It's a lively, sweet cup of coffee that is a couple...
Sideyard Coffee: January 8 - El Salvador 🇸🇻
Dear Sideyard Friends, This week's subscription roast is comprised of coffee processed two different ways from two distinct farms in El Salvador. One is a...
Sideyard Coffee: January 1 - Sulawesi 🇮🇩
Dear Sideyard Friends, Happy New Year! We're starting off the year with a coffee from the 11th largest island in the world–the Indonesian island of Sulawesi....
Sideyard Coffee: December 23 - Honduras 🇭🇳
Dear Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee comes from Honduras and, perhaps appropriately, for the last roast of 2020, it's daaaark. It's very nearly French...
Sideyard Coffee: December 18 - Ethiopia Dry Process 🇪🇹 + Cascara Coffee Cherry Tea!
Dear Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee comes from a collection of a few hundred very small farms near the Bobea Uke processing station in the Western Guji...
Sideyard Coffee: Colombia 🇨🇴 + Favorite Brewing Devices of 2020
Dear Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the Quindio Palmical Estate in Colombia. It's a high elevation, single estate coffee. You can expect a...