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...
Sideyard Coffee: December 4 - Bali Blue Moon 🇮🇩, Quakers and Burners
Dear Sideyard Friends, With a bunch of new subscribers joining over the past few months, I'm playing a bit of catch up with the quantities of single origin...
Sideyard Coffee: November 27 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Dear Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from a collection of extremely small farms in the Hambela Wamena area in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Dry...
Sideyard Coffee: November 20 - India 🇮🇳
Dear Sideyard Friends, Please check your porches or mailboxes if you're expecting coffee this week! This week's origin is another new one for me. Until a few...
Sideyard Coffee: November 14 - Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Dear Sideyard Friends, This week's subscription beans are from the Finca Rola farm in Costa Rica. It's a modestly bright and balanced medium (City+) roast...
Sideyard Coffee: November 6 - Sumatra 🇮🇩
Dear Sideyard Friends, I just got back from my delivery loop through south Oak Park; what a beautiful day in the neighborhood!* This week's roast is a dry...
Sideyard Coffee: October 31 - Zambia 🇿🇲
Dear Sideyard Friends, I'm quite confident that this the first time I've tried a single origin coffee from Zambia and a quick look at this ordered list of...
Sideyard Coffee: October 24 - Ethiopia 🫐
Dear Sideyard Friends, With touches of cocoa, spices, and fruit, this week's coffee from Benti Nenka, Ethiopia is a fun and complex dry process cup. As it...
Sideyard Coffee: October 17 - Rwanda 🇷🇼
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the Matyazo cooperative in the Ngororero district of Rwanda. I roasted it toward the darker end of the...
Sideyard Coffee: October 10 - Costa Ricca Tarrazu
Hello Sideyard Friends, Tomorrow morning I'll be trying to complete a very unofficial marathon with the Oak Park Runners Club, so coffee deliveries are a day...
Sideyard Coffee: October 3 - Burundi Murambi
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a medium roast dry process coffee from Burundi. You can look for tart fruits and smokey cocoa flavors, though I...
Sideyard Coffee: September 26 - Guatemala & Ethiopia
Hello Sideyard Friends, I roasted two coffees this week–the end of the Ethiopia Hamasho Village and the start of a new bag of green from Guatemala....
Sideyard Coffee: September 19
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a dry process medium-light roast from Hamasho Village, Ethiopia. Ethiopia is both the birthplace of coffee and...
Sideyard Coffee: September 12
Hello Sideyard Friends, With the cooler temperatures this past week, I've been tempted to drink coffee at all hours. I'm fairly sensitive to caffeine...