Sideyard Notes: Brazil 🇧🇷 Natural 🍓 + Gift Subscriptions
Hello Sideyard Friends, Mea culpa... 2023 nearly came and went without a coffee from Brazil. This year's crop in Brazil will net more than 66 million 60kg...
Sideyard Notes: Papuan New Guinea 🇵🇬 Peaberry + Irving Craft Fair Today!
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a Papua New Guinea Peaberry. Fun fact about Papua New Guinea–out of the nine million people in PNG, around 2.5...
Sideyard Notes: Blend Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, We're starting December with a blend of the last three coffees–Colombia, Costa Rica, and Uganda. Dark chocolate leads the pack with...
Costa Rica Tarrazú 🇨🇷 🍯
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a honey processed coffee from the Tarrazú region of Costa Rica. Costa Rican processors are famous for their...
Sideyard Notes: Uganda 🇺🇬 Rwenzori Washed
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a washed process coffee from the western Rwenzori region of Uganda. The coffee from this region is grown mostly...
Sideyard Notes: Colombia 🇨🇴 Huila
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a washed coffee from the Huila department of Colombia. I'm picking up white grape and pear and maybe a touch of...
Sideyard Notes: Kenya 🇰🇪 Peaberry 🍅
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's Kenya peaberry is bit of a sourcing splurge. Kenya's command a premium to start with, and this one is a peaberry micro...
Sideyard Notes: Americas Blend Week 🇲🇽🇳🇮🇨🇴🇨🇷
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a blend of four recent coffees and a tour of the Americas (north/central/south). Here's the recipe: 4 parts...
Sideyard Notes: Mexico 🇲🇽 Chipas Semi-washed 🍫🍓
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the state of Chiapas in the south of Mexico. I pushed it toward the darker end of medium. I.e., a slightly...
Sideyard Notes: Nicaragua 🇳🇮 La Bastilla Washed + Extras in stock
Hello Sideyard Friends, Happy Friday the 13th. The only unlucky thing about today’s coffee is that it got delivered in the rain (again). The coffee itself,...
Sideyard Notes: El Salvador 🇸🇻 Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a fruity dry process coffee from Luis Duarte's Finca San Luis in El Salvador. The first thing you'll notice is...
Fifth Friday + Coffee in the Side Yard ☕️ + Solar Homes Tour ⚡️
Hello Sideyard Friends, Tomorrow is a fifth Friday, which makes it a bye week in our roast schedule. If you're running short on coffee, however, stop by for...
Sideyard Notes: East African Trio Week 🇨🇩🇹🇿🇰🇪 No Coffee Next Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a blend of three East African coffees--Tanzania peaberry, Kenya, and Congo. See previous tasting notes for...
Sideyard Notes: Burundi 🇧🇮 Ewe Burundi
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a dry process from Burundi. It's on the understated and less funky end of the dry processing spectrum. I don't...
Sideyard Notes: Colombia Huila 🇨🇴 + Barrie Fest Saturday 9/9!
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a solid medium roast from the Huila region of Colombia. The flavor notes include a base of milk chocolate and...
Sideyard Notes: Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Natural Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the processing magicians at the SanDiego mill in Costa Rica. With notes that include plum, sangria, and...
Sideyard Notes: Blend Week 🇵🇪 + 🇪🇹 + 🇨🇷
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a blend of recent leftover greens from Peru, Costa Rica, and Ethiopia. Our garage-roastery was pretty pretty hot...
Sideyard Notes: Kenya 🇰🇪
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee comes from small holder famers in central Kenya. Kenyan coffees are generally more expensive than coffees from...
Sideyard Notes: Congo 🇨🇩 Coopade Cooperative 🦍
Hello Sideyard Friends, Sorry for the late notes... I just got back to town after a week away with extended family. Coincidentally, we drank a lot of...
Sideyard Notes: Costa Rica Tarrazú 🇨🇷 Honey Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, We're back! Thanks for enduring our July sabbatical; we hope you found some delicious coffee in Sideyard's stead. The roaster is in...