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...
Sideyard Coffee: February 10 - Ethiopia Guji 🇪🇹 Dry Process
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is an Ethiopian dry process coffee from the Guiji zone in southern Ethiopia. On the spectrum of funky dry process...
Sideyard Coffee: February 3 - Guatemala 🇬🇹 Huehuetenango Organic
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from the remote Huehuetenango region of Guatemala. The region has ideal growing and processing conditions for...
Sideyard Coffee: January 27 - West Java Blue 🇮🇩
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a wet-hulled process coffee from West Java. It gets its blue moniker simply due to the fact that the green...
Sideyard Coffee: January 20 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is from a producer by the name of Abiyot Agaze. His processing station is in the Western Guji Zone in Ethiopia and...
Sideyard Coffee: January 13 - Five Origin Blend + Stickers
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a catch-up blend of five different East African and Central American coffees. I think it turned out great. I say...
Sideyard Coffee: January 6 - DR Congo 🇨🇩 🦍
Hello Sideyard Friends, Happy 2023. This week's coffee is from the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's produced by a cooperative of farms that sit along the...
Sideyard Coffee - ⚠️ Delivery Delay 🥶
Hello Sideyard Friends, Due to the extreme cold, this week's coffee deliveries are delayed until Saturday morning. If you're fresh out of coffee and would...
Sideyard Coffee: December 16 - Uganda 🇺🇬 Dry Process 🍉 + In Defense of Not-Quite-Hot Coffee
Hello Sideyard Friends, As it does every winter, it's about to get cold here in Chicagoland. Really cold. And the colder it gets, the more I want to be...
Sideyard Coffee: December 9 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Washed + Irving Holiday Craft Fair + Decaf
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a washed coffee from western Ethiopia. I'm tasting syrupy-sweet stone fruit, browned sugar, and an orange floral...
Sideyard Coffee: December 2 - Guatemala 🇬🇹 La Morena 🦕
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is part of an initiative called La Morena that was set up specifically to support female coffee growers in...
Sideyard Coffee: December 23 - Costa Rica 🇨🇷 🎄
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a washed Costa Rica. It's a clean-tasting medium roast that's bringing balance to the last few weeks of funky...