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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Presta Coffee Roasters This Ethiopian Yirgacheffe honey lot offers aromatics of lavender and dark chocolate, with layers that deepen as the cup cools. Sourced from 1,200 smallholder farmers and crafted at the renowned Koke and Birbes Kela Washing Stations, it showcases heirloom Kurume, Dega, and Wolisho varietals grown at 1,800 MASL. Expect a vibrant, complex cup with blueberry jam, jasmine, and orange zest, a true taste of Yirgacheffe. |
 $23/10oz |
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Portland Coffee Roasters As our lightest, brightest single origin offering, Organic Ethiopia is a wonderful coffee to brew as a pour over. With notes of citrus, black tea, bergamot, and a floral finish. |
 20.00/12oz |
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Onyx Coffee Lab This naturally processed coffee has become a staple in our offerings from Central America. Las Lajas is the premier coffee mill in Costa Rica and this lot highlights precisely why they’re heralded as the best. Expect notes of grape, with an inherent sweetness of semi-sweet dark chocolate. We love this coffee for its versatility across brewing methods and extractions. |
 $15/4oz |
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Heartwood Coffee While cherry prices were high this year, Basha maintained a very uncommon practice: delivering a second payment to the 126 producers he bought cherry from once the coffee sold. Basha grows coffee in semi-forested plots on 12 hectares in addition to operating collection sites in Bombe, Shantawane, and Kokose—collecting cherry from producers growing coffee as high as 2,300 masl. |
 $30/12oz |
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Madcap Coffee Along with his wife Anayibe and children, Alirio cultivates Pink Bourbon alongside many other varieties on El Diviso in Bruselas, Huila. Eldest son Fabian oversees day to day farm operations and processing with a keen eye, and he continues to build out the farm’s quality control lab with more sample roasting equipment. In Alirio’s vibrant Pink Bourbon, we’re tasting notes of pineapple, cotton candy, and pink lemonade. |
 $29/8oz |
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Blueprint Coffee The coffee-producing region Ngozi lies in north-central Burundi. With high elevation and mild, warm year-round weather, the environment in Ngozi provides excellent conditions for growing delicious specialty coffees. Turaco is a microlot named for the brightly colored bird commonly seen enlivening the Burundi skies. We taste blackberry, rose, maple, lime, and dark chocolate in this complex and delicious cup. |
 $22.25/10oz |
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Partners Coffee Las Moritas is the distinguished farm of Higinio and Aura Gómez. This lot, produced in collaboration with the supremely talented team at Los Volcanes, is from an exceptional harvest of a variety they are calling “nance,” recently uncertain whether it is actually yellow catuaí or yellow caturra. In a round, balanced cup, we’re tasting brown sugar and molasses, ginger cookie, warm spice, pineapple, pear, and orange zest. |
 $25/12oz |
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Equator Coffees Sweet and tropical with notes of macadamia nut, papaya, and brown sugar, this light roast single origin comes from José Hernán Salazar Benavides and Marina Elina Ansasoy at Finca La Guaca. Their variety “Ají,” which shined in the 2020 Colombia Cup of Excellence, was later identified as a previously undocumented Ethiopian heirloom—the birthplace of Arabica coffee. |
 $29/12oz |
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Klatch Coffee Explore the unique flavors of our first offering using the “Supernatural” process. This exceptional coffee bursts with flavor notes of hibiscus tea, sweet, juicy strawberry, and stone fruit like apricot. The “Supernatural” designation is an enhanced natural processing method that intensifies the coffee’s inherent vibrance and depth. |
 $24.95/310g |
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Sightglass Coffee Strawberry, Cocoa Nib, Orange Blossom Honey |
 $23/12oz |
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PERC Cinnamon and maple buns from award-winning coffee producer Diego Bermudez! His processing methods are truly scientific. He has a laboratory where he uses scientific methods to enhance the maximum potential of his coffee. The result is a super complex coffee, but in a warm, comforting way. It’s not super fruity or funky; this coffee is all about sweet, baking spices. It falls somewhere between a cinnamon roll and a spice cake. |
 $31/12oz |
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Olympia Coffee Kirimahiga washing station delivers everything we love about Kenyan coffee: big sweetness, bold acidity, and rich body. Grown between Mt. Kenya and Lake Naivasha, this meticulously processed coffee bursts with flavor. |
 $24.50/12oz |
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Caffé Umbria Ethically sourced from sustainable farms in Mexico and South America, this blend is earthy with notes of stone fruit and lemon zest. Roasted medium-dark to bring out citrus sweetness, this blend will reveal its intricacies with different brew methods. |
 $18/12oz |
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Stumptown Coffee Roasters Cold Brew Summer Blend features some of our favorite structured, sweet Direct Trade coffees — from our partners at Rwanda Huye Mountain and in Costa Rica’s renowned Los Santos de Tarrazú region — to create the classic Stumptown Cold Brew you know and love. Brewed hot or cold, this blend delivers a fruit-forward acidity, milk chocolate finish, and a nougat sweetness. |
 $23/12oz |
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La Barba Coffee This washed pink bourbon is a reminder of the significance of farming and terroir. Clean, balanced, and delicate, it has bright floral aromas and earl grey notes of bergamot and fruity coriander. As it cools these notes mellow a bit and the cup gets sweeter and sweeter with a creamy, sugary sweetness. |
 $27/12oz |
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Mr. Espresso Brazilian coffees are often viewed as “workhorse” coffees. They’re regularly used as the main component of a blend to give good chocolate notes and body, but they’re rarely the star of the show. This coffee eschews that designation and truly shines as a single origin espresso and brew. Brazil Córrego Da Boa Vista is a coffee that absolutely bursts with freshness. In the cup you’ll find an abundance of florals including lavender and jasmine, followed by vetiver, and ending with toasted almond. |
 $21/12oz |
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Verve Coffee Roasters Balanced and bright, the Grateful Dead blend is easy-drinking with layered complexity. It opens with a sweet burst of Plum and Nectarine, grounded by warm Black Tea. A clean finish brings it all together, offering a smooth cup that’s as timeless as the music that inspired it. |
 $24/12oz |
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Night Swim Coffee COMMUNITY: Smallholders Farmers |
 $24/12oz |
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Joe Coffee Apple Blossom, Candied Grapefruit, Apricot |
 $18/6oz |
