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...
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,...