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duck-rabbit Ethiopia Korate – Korate is a natural-only processing station in West Guji, Ethiopia. They operate in the mountains and have deliveries from 116 local smallholding farmers. The output from this processing station is small, but is known to be excellent with quality control (great standards IMO). This coffee is produced at elevations 1900-2100 MASL,Continue reading “December 2023 – Introducing duck-rabbit and SEY”

CleverCoffee Ethiopia Keramo – From the Bombe Mountains in the Sidama region of Ethiopia, we have coffee from the Keramo washing station. Keramo washing station buys cherries from around 380 smallholding farmers, or farm workers that pick wild coffee. Keramo is located at 2300-2400 MASL, which is one of the highest elevation coffees I haveContinue reading “November 2023 – CleverCoffee and Little Wolf”

Junto Ethiopia Worka – I don’t have too much of a story on this one, Worka is a massive washing station as this subscription surely knows by now with around 2540 active members operating on super small plots of land. I taste strawberry Jam, sour cherry, and earl grey tea. Super delicate profile on thisContinue reading “October 2023 – Junto and Kaffa”

Lykke Snovatten – As mentioned with the last Lykke round, Snovatten is going to be a consistent offering every time we have Lykke. This coffee is from Agua de Nieves in Peru, the small 5 hectare farm that Lykke owns. This is my favorite of the three single-origin coffees that Lykke owns the whole farmContinue reading “September 2023 – Lykke: The Return and Vivid”

Manhattan Colombia Nestor Lasso – The Nestor Lasso… We are finally sharing this newer producer’s coffee that has been on all of the menus at some of the fanciest roasters across Europe for the last few months. Nestor and his brother Adrian took over their family coffee farm and made the decision to grow specialty.Continue reading “August 2023 – Manhattan and… HAVE FUN!!!”

The Barn Guatemala La Colina – This farm is named for “The Hill” that the plot of land is located on. La Colina is owned by Antonio Medina, a third generation farmer from this area, and had dreams of growing coffee while the rest of the farm was occupied by various other crops. Antonio firstContinue reading “July 2023 – The Barn and SEY”

Clever Kenya Top Mutitu – This absolute treasure comes to us from the Mutitu Washing Factory in Kirinyaga. Kirinyaga has consistently been one of the top producing regions in Kenya. Through all of the coffee-related issues that Kenya has been faced with in recent years, many coffees in this region have held strong and maintainedContinue reading “June 2023 – Clever Summer Africans and Little Wolf”

Junto Colombia La Primavera – This beautiful Pink Bourbon comes from the legend Freddy Correa, the producer behind lots from El Vergel estate whom has produced some of my favorite coffees in recent years. The farm is located in Huila, Colombia and grown at 1800 MASL. You will notice that the bag states ‘semi-washed”. ThisContinue reading “May 2023 – Kaffa and Junto all-time favorites.”