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January 12, 2024
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
January 5, 2024
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
December 22, 2023
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
December 22, 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
December 15, 2023
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!
December 9, 2023
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
December 2, 2023
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 🇨🇷 🍯
November 24, 2023
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
November 17, 2023
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
November 10, 2023
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 🍅
November 3, 2023
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 🇲🇽🇳🇮🇨🇴🇨🇷
October 27, 2023
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 🍫🍓
October 20, 2023
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
October 13, 2023
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
October 5, 2023
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 ⚡️
September 28, 2023
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
September 20, 2023
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
September 15, 2023
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!
September 8, 2023
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
September 1, 2023
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...
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