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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....
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Yirgacheffe 🌸
April 19, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week’s coffee is a washed coffee from the Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia. We had it a couple months ago and I liked it enough to...
Blend Week 🇨🇷🇺🇬🇨🇴
April 12, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a blend of the three most recent coffees. I was going to wait another couple weeks for this blend, but I felt...
Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Tarrazú Hot Springs Washed
April 5, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the Tarrazú region of Costa Rica. The region is known for inventive and wizard-level coffee processing...
Bye-week + April Subscription Info
March 29, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, It's a fifth-Friday-week, which means no coffee this week. April renewal payments will be processed Sunday night and for the first...
Uganda 🇺🇬 Ruwenzori Natural + Roast Level Survey
March 22, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a natural process lot from the Rwenzori mountain region of Uganda. After two days rest, I'm tasting black tea,...
Blend Week 🇲🇽🇨🇷🇪🇹
March 15, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a blend of recent coffees from Mexico, Costa Rica, and Ethiopia. I'm tasting the fruitier parts of the latter...
Colombia 🇨🇴 Huila Excelso
March 9, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, Check out the size of those beans! That's what an "excelso" designation from the Colombia Coffee Federation looks like. Size is not...
⚠️ Delivery Rain Delay 🌧️
March 8, 2024
Today's delivery is delayed and will go out tomorrow morning. If you're fresh out of coffee, we'd be happy to arrange a porch pickup tonight or first thing...
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe 🇪🇹 Washed Process
March 1, 2024
Hello Sideyard Subscribers, This week's roast is the washed process version of the same Ethiopia Yirgacheffe we had back in January. I loved the dry process...
Sideyard Notes: Blend Week 🇨🇷🇰🇪🇧🇷
February 23, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, We're currently roasting 45 to 50 lbs of green coffee per week. But the importers we buy most of our coffee from, sells coffee in 65...
Sideyard Notes: Brazil Dry Process 🇧🇷
February 16, 2024
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast comes from a single family farm in Brazil, run by Donã Marta. It's a dry process coffee with notes of winey...
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