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...
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...