We get asked by friends and family where to buy coffee a lot. It’s a tough question! It’s easy to lose track of just how many incredible, fresh, vibrant coffees are out there. Every week, we ask our advertising roasting partners for coffee recommendations they’re most excited about. Here’s this week’s collection of some of the most interesting whole bean coffee offerings available from talented roasters across the globe.
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We’re more thrilled than ever to offer a lot from Nano Genji – our first time buying from the co-op. Nano Genji is a part of the Kata Muduga Union, a union of 39 co-ops and washing stations that focus on quality coffees and paying dividends directly to the Union members. Nano Genji is the sibling mill to the famed Nano Challa mill, featured on our menu last year. Historically one of the most coveted coffees in all of Western Ethiopia, Nano Challa membership did such an amazing job with production and processing that the tremendous premiums they were receiving caused their membership to swell to a level that pushed their capacity as far as it could go. In 2021, they opened Nano Genji a few miles away with brand new Penagos equipment along with dozens of drying beds to accommodate their growing membership. With 630 members between the two washing stations, they’re looking forward to continued growth and success. This lot, #6, from Nano Genji is bright and refreshing, with bold citrus and fruity notes that instantly remind us of cherry-limeade from Sonic or peach green tea on a warm spring/summer day.
La Barba Coffee With a bright and pleasantly crisp acidity, fruit flavors such as green grape and apple produce a clean first couple sips. Gradually, the cup becomes sweeter, fruitier, and lends a subtle floral note, still maintaining an enjoyably vibrant acidity, making this one of Jijon’s most impressive coffees. THE BARN From the ‘Land of 1000 Hills’, our latest espresso is a showcase of terroir and meticulous natural processing. Led by the passionate David Rubanzangabo, our partnership with Huye Mountain goes back over ten years. With creamy notes of strawberry and almond, in the cup this lot reminds us of a sweet frangipane tart.
Stumptown Coffee Roasters The coffee that started it all: Hair Bender is Stumptown’s signature blend, a recipe perfected over 25 years ago. We can tell you it’s a complex blend with notes of sweet citrus, dark chocolate, and raisin, but we can’t tell you how it’ll make you feel. It just . . . makes you feel things, lots of really good things.
Klatch Coffee We’re thrilled to present Mujeres De Café (Spanish for “women of coffee”), a coffee that not only delivers outstanding flavor but also supports a vital cause. 20% of every bag sold will be donated to Grounds For Health, an organization that has been providing life-saving women’s health programs in coffee-growing communities since 1996. Join us in our fight for the prevention and treatment of cervical cancer by purchasing a bag of Mujeres De Café during March.
Equator Coffees Experience the new blend celebrating Equator’s 30 year journey: a reflection of where we’ve been and where we’re headed. Anniversary Blend is a balanced and smooth medium roast, highlighting a deep-toned Lintong coffee from small garden farms in the Lake Toba region of Sumatra and complimented by coffees from Kenya and Colombia.
Dune Coffee Roasters The Typica variety that Juan grows at Hacienda La Papaya was our first introduction to these coffees, and these coffees have always impressed us with the flavors Juan is able to cultivate and develop from this unique expression of the variety. Juan’s washed process has undergone continuous refinement since the first year we tasted their coffees, with ripe cherries undergoing sorting and floating before a 15 hour fermentation and moving to ultraviolet radiation-protected drying rooms, fitted with temperature and humidity sensors for meticulous drying. PERC Our partners at Unblended created the Young Producers program to make coffee farming an exciting and viable career path for young people in Colombia. The program pairs young producers with seasoned veterans to help them with their own coffee. We can’t stop talking about how much we love this coffee. You’ll get an explosion of intense fruit that reminds us of pink Starburst.
Sightglass Coffee Roasters Orange Blossom, Tamarind, Strawberry Olympia Coffee Our San Sebastian Reserva, sourced from producers in San Sebastian De La Plata, Huila, features the highest-scoring lots of the season grown at lofty elevations over 1,700 meters.
Partners Coffee The washing station at Gahahe serves over a thousand farmers in Kayanza, Burundi. This fully washed lot has become a perennial favorite of ours with golden hues of raisin, dried fig, apricot, and orange meeting brûléed sugar. Gahahe makes an excellent late-winter filter coffee and a lovely option for seasonal espresso.
Passenger Coffee & Tea The most recent addition to our Foundational Menu, this delightfully sweet and approachable coffee comes from producers Pranoy and Ajoy Thipaiah of Kerehaklu Estate. Kerehaklu is one of a small group of family-run coffee farms that together make up the Bhadra partnership. All of these estates are located near the Bhadra Tiger Reserve, in the historically significant coffee-growing region of Chikmagalur, India. Notes of citrus, black tea, stone fruit
Mr. Espresso West Java is quickly making its mark in the coffee world. Only about 15 years ago, the Indonesian government launched an initiative to lease private land to local farmers for coffee farming, aiming to protect the area’s lush forests from logging. The forward-thinking programming has transformed the region into a hub for exceptional coffee production. Part of Mr. Espresso’s limited-edition Collezione di Caffè, this washed micro-lot comes from West Java’s Cipaganti Village. Collected directly from small farmers, coffee varietals include Catimor, Tim Tim, Typica, and Gayo II — all grown at high altitudes of around 5,700 feet. For this fully washed coffee, ripe cherries are pulped, dry-fermented for sixteen hours, and then thoroughly washed. The coffee is then placed in a solar dryer, until the optimum moisture content is reached.While washed coffee processing is traditional to the region, it had fallen out of favor as producers transitioned to meet a demand for wet-hulled coffees made popular in neighboring Sumatra. The Mr. Espresso sourcing team was exceptionally impressed by this coffee’s vibrancy, showcased by the region’s traditional processing method. Java Gunung Tikukur offers a complex cup, with flavors such as peach, toasted almond, and basil.
Madcap Coffee Nelson Moreno inherited his first piece of land, 3 acres at about 1600 meters, from his father Orlando when he was only 16. In the Santa Barbara region, the surname Moreno and quality go hand-in-hand. Generations of Morenos’ work together harvesting each other’s coffee, as well as processing all of their lots together. Their collective effort is what sets the Moreno’s level of quality apart from the rest, and they have the Cup of Excellence awards to prove it. Specialty coffee enthusiasts recognize Santa Barbara, Honduras, as one of the most unique coffee micro-terroirs in all of Central America. Coffees from this region are known for being pleasantly sweet and easy sipping, and have a complexity all their own. Nelson Moreno’s coffee is a brilliant example of how terroir, generations of experience, and fine tuning can results in a stand out crop of coffee.This Pacas variety is processed anaerobically, or without oxygen. The coffee is depulped and then sealed in barrels for 80 hours, left in open-air fermentation tanks for 12 hours before being washed, and finally dried for 12-13 days on raised beds. This innovative processing technique results in a vibrant and expressive cup, with notes of honeydew, lychee, and hibiscus.
Verve Coffee Roasters Juicy, jammy and expressive, this year’s AA lot from Gura is nothing short of delicious. Tropical guava notes greet your palate with the first sip, followed by a sweet strawberry and fudge finish.
Onyx Coffee Lab In the high mountains of Caldas, Colombia, Tío Conejo cultivates coffee with a commitment to tradition, community, and resilience. Nestled at 2,000 MASL on rich volcanic soil, their farm’s high altitude and meticulous practices yield exceptional quality. That quality shows in the cup with pungent fruit characteristics throughout the drinking experience, culminating in pink guava and watermelon candy.
Joe Coffee Candied Lemon, Almond Paste, Cinnamon Pachamama Coffee Farmers Grown on the volcanic shores of Lago Atitlán, this is an exceptional single origin coffee from Guatemala. CXFFEEBLACK A HIGA JUNT -NATURAL RWANDA KILIMBI STATION
Jose Cuellar Pink Bourbon & Bourbon Aji
This blend of Pink Bourbon and Bourbon Aji comes from Jose Cuellar – a rare coffee producer in Huila, Colombia. He’s been in coffee for a very long time, but his latest venture has taken him out of the normal path of Colombian coffee production. He has planted eight different coffee varieties and has been working through many super cool processing experiments.
$14CAD/200g
$24/12oz.
Pepe Jijon Typica Wave
Notes : Green Grape, Apple, Clean
$38/8oz.
Huye Mountain Natural
€16/250g
Hair Bender
$18/12oz.
Mujeres De Café
$25/310g
Anniversary Blend
$22/12oz.
Ecuador Hacienda La Papaya Washed Typica
This year, Juan’s washed Typica is quintessential of the flavors we’ve come to find from this variety and terroir: sweet citrus, dense caramel and brown sugar sweetness, and white flower florality
$25/10oz.
Colombia Young Producers Program
$25/12oz.
Spring Equinox
Roast Level:Medium Dark
Named for the celestial shift from winter to spring, marked by nearly equal amounts of daylight and darkness across all latitudes, our Spring Equinox blend is crafted from a 50/50 composition of high-altitude coffees from Guatemala and Kenya. The result is a unique blend that celebrates a season of renewal through a deeply sweet and delicately fruited coffee that shines.
$23/12oz.
San Sebastian Reserva
$24/12oz.
Burundi – Gahahe
$24/12oz.
Bhadra
$19/250g
Java Gunung Tikukur, Washed Process
12oz./$20
Nelson Moreno
$23.50/8oz.
Gura AA
$26/ 12oz.
Colombia Tio Conejo Gesha Natural
$52/10oz.
Rubí Sisters Catuaí
Perched between the Sierra La Esperanza and Santa Bárbara mountains in Las Vegas, Honduras, lies Finca Ruland 2—a specialty coffee farm as beautiful as it is biodiverse, owned and operated by the Rubí-Landaverde family.
As a second generation coffee grower, daughter Andrea Rubí helped to usher in a new era for her family—launching them into specialty coffee as the culmination of two decades of farming heritage. Coming into the business with a fresh perspective, Andrea saw the value of moving their practice away from sole reliance on the commodity coffee industry, and—in addition to their newer frontier of experimentation—she now heads up their initiative to forge more direct relationships with coffee companies and roasters like Joe.
$25/12oz.
Guatemala
Single Origin: Santa Clara, Guatemala
Member Co-op: Manos Campesinas
Roast: Medium
Always Shade Grown + Certified Organic
$19.50/10oz.
Fruit Of Our Labor
1650-1850 MASL
TASTING NOTES: Strawberry,Dark Chocolate, and PassionFruit
$21/8oz.
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