July Coffee Pause Reminder 🎂
Hello Sideyard Friends, Sorry if you missed the note in the June 30 newsletter and you've been wondering what happened to your coffee! Sideyard turned three...
Sideyard Notes: No Coffee this week + July Subscription Pause for All
Hello Sideyard Friends, I hope you're enjoying last week's Tanzania peaberry! Sorry I missed the notes email on that one–call it a casualty of my family's...
Sideyard Notes: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Dry Process Macuba
Hello Sideyard Friends, Hello from the road and sorry for the delayed notes! This week’s coffee, as you’ve already gathered, is another one from Ethiopia. As...
Sideyard Notes: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Yirgacheffe 🧊 ☕️
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the famed Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia. It's a washed process coffee with mild-mannered acidity, medium...
Sideyard Notes: Peru 🇵🇪 Warmikuna* Women's Co-Op 🪩
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a re-up of the coffee we had back in the first week of April. I heard from a few folks that really enjoyed it,...
Sideyard Notes: Blend Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a blend of four recent origins. It's a bright medium roast. I think the recent Peru and Colombia are coming...
Sideyard Notes: Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 Peaberry 🫛
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a peaberry Papua New Guinea. As I've noted before, Peaberry coffee comes from a genetic anomaly in the coffee...
Sideyard ☕️ Delivery Delay ⚠️
Hello Sideyard Friends, With apologies, this week's coffee delivery is delayed until tomorrow morning. If you're fresh out of coffee and would like to pickup...
Sideyard Notes: El Salvador 🇸🇻 Porque Llorar
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from El Salvador. The processing station, run by Alejandro Valiente, recently achieved energy independence...
Sideyard Notes: Congo 🇨🇩 Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a dry process Congo. Like most coffees, the best time to take note of what you're tasting is neither right when...
Sideyard Notes: Colombia 🇨🇴 Narino 🌋
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the Narino department in the western corner of Colombia. The region is know for having six volcanoes,...
Sideyard Notes: Kenya 🇰🇪 Muthunzuuni Co-op
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a Kenyan coffee from the Muthunzuuni co-op. Kenyan coffees are famously dense, which has implications for both...
Sideyard Notes: West Java 🇮🇩 Wet Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a wet process coffee from West Java. It's a clean tasting cup (especially compared to many Indonesian coffees!),...
Sideyard Notes: Peru 🇵🇪 Warmikuna Collective
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from a collective of 55 women coffee growers in the Junin region in northwest Peru. The name Warmikuna means...
Sideyard Coffee Notes: Blend Week 🇮🇩 🇨🇩 🇨🇴 + No Coffee Next Week
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a blend of recent spare greens from Java, Colombia, and Congo. It's the earthy wet process notes (tobacco and...
Sideyard Notes: Rwanda 🇷🇼 Honey Process Gatare
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a Rwanda honey process from the Gatare mill. The Gatare mill in western Rwanda was set up in 2003 and was one...
Sideyard Coffee Notes: Mexico 🇲🇽 + First Batch Coffee Offer
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from Mexico! It's a first for us and it's a delicious one at that. Caramel, cinnamon, and cocoa are the top...
Sideyard Coffee Notes: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Benti Nenka Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a dry process Ethiopia from the Benti Nenka area. As ever with dry process lots, this coffee was a bit of a...
Sideyard Coffee Notes: Colombia 🇨🇴 🍫 🍒
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a washed process coffee from Colombia. It's a solid medium roast and I'm picking up milk chocolate, a nutty...
Sideyard Coffee Notes: Uganda 🇺🇬 + Guatemala 🇬🇹 Blend | spares in stock!
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a 2:1 blend of leftover greens from the recent Uganda and Guatemala roasts. The first thing that hit me was how...