Uganda 🇺🇬 Ruwenzori Natural + Roast Level Survey
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 🇲🇽🇨🇷🇪🇹
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
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 🌧️
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
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 🇨🇷🇰🇪🇧🇷
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 🇧🇷
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...
Sideyard Notes: Tanzania 🇹🇿 Natural ✨
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a Tanzania natural. Star fruit is a very very specific tasting note, but I think it does a great job of...
Sideyard Notes: Costa Rica Tarrazu 🇨🇷 🍯
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the famed Tarrazu region of Costa Rica. It's a honey process coffee, sitting somewhere between dry and...
Sideyard Notes: Kenya Ngungu-ini 🇰🇪 Peaberry
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee comes to us from a processing facility at the foothills of Mt Kenya in central Kenya. The facility draws coffee...
Sideyard Notes: Blend Week 🇧🇷 🇪🇹 🇰🇪
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee made it out late yesterday afternoon in what might have been Michael's coldest and slushiest delivery loop ever....
Sideyard Notes: Mexico Chiapas 🇲🇽
Hello Sideyard Friends, Michael recently finished a chilly zig-zagging loop of south Oak Park on his trusty mint green cargo bike! Please rescue those beans...
Delivery Delay ⚠️
Hello Sideyard Subscribers, This week's roast is a delicious washed coffee from Chiapas, Mexico. While we look forward to having it in your grinders and...
Sideyard Notes: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Yirgacheffe Dry Process + extras
Hello Sideyard Friends, We're starting the new year with one of my go to favorites–a dry process Ethiopia. It's a lighter bodied medium roast with notes of...
Sideyard Notes: Year in Review 2023 🪩 | No Coffee This Week Reminder
Hello Sideyard Friends, Thank you for your support this year! Sideyard Coffee was started as a pandemic fever dream in July 2020. The idea was simple if not...
Sideyard Notes: Kenya 🇰🇪 Kimalany | Last Roast of 2023
Hello Sideyard Friends, The last roast of 2023 is a coffee from the Farmers Cooperative Society (FCS) in Kimalany village in Kenya. FCS uses a wet mill to...
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...