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Sideyard Coffee Notes: Mexico 🇲🇽 + First Batch Coffee Offer
March 10, 2023
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
March 3, 2023
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 🇨🇴 🍫 🍒
February 17, 2023
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!
February 16, 2023
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
February 10, 2023
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
February 3, 2023
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 🇮🇩
January 27, 2023
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
January 20, 2023
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
January 13, 2023
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 🇨🇩 🦍
January 6, 2023
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 🥶
December 23, 2022
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
December 15, 2022
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
December 7, 2022
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 🦕
December 2, 2022
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 🇨🇷 🎄
December 1, 2022
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...
Sideyard Gift Subscriptions ☕️+🎁
November 23, 2022
Hello Sideyard Friends, In lieu of the weekly newsletter (no deliveries this week), I'd love to simply remind everyone that we offer gift subscriptions. If...
Sideyard Coffee: November 18 & 25 - Java Wet Hulled 🇮🇩 + Uganda Natural 🇺🇬
November 16, 2022
Hello Sideyard Friends, To avoid Thanksgiving delivery complications, this week we roasted and delivered this week's and next week's coffees. The two coffees...
Sideyard Coffee: November 11 - Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Analynn Garro 🍒🍯
November 10, 2022
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's roast is a washed coffee from Analynn Garro's farm in Costa Rica. Garro started farming coffee in the 1990s and after a...
Sideyard Coffee: November 4 - Rwanda 🇷🇼 Dry Process + Caffeine Myths
November 4, 2022
Hello Sideyard Friends, This week's coffee is a Rwanda dry process, roasted to the darker side of medium. It should delight dry process fans in particular....
Sideyard Coffee: October 28 - Blend 🎃+👻+🍁
October 24, 2022
Hello Sideyard Friends, Happy Halloween. This week's coffee is a catch-up blend. We're roasting roughly 50lbs of green coffee per week these days, while our...
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