A New Roster Of Coffees Now Available From Our Roasters Village

Greater Goods Coffee Co.

Greater Goods Roasting: Rung’eto PB—Rarely has a coffee release synced up with the start of a season quite like this one. Hailing from Kirinyaga County in central Kenya, this peaberry lot is the warm, comforting, hot cocoa in front of the fire – the spirit of winter in coffee form. Peaberry makes up about 10% of Kenya’s coffee export and is highly sought out for its depth of sweetness and a thick, syrupy body. You can enjoy your winter days with notes of golden apple, black treacle, and red currant jam.

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Joe Coffee Company

Joe Coffee: Colombia La Familia Guarnizo—This coffee comes to us through a strong relationship between Joe Coffee and the El Paraiso growers’ association in Huila, Colombia. This bright and light-bodied selection was grown by a special group of El Paraiso’s member farmers: the Guarnizo family. Featuring notes of stone fruit and almonds with a medium acidity, this coffee is a customer favorite.

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Madcap Coffee Company

Madcap Coffee Company: Lake Effect—When creating our seasonal blends like Lake Effect, we aim to capture the feelings and flavors reminiscent of that particular season. The blend should highlight the strength of the components, as well as present a new tasting experience.

Lake Effect is inspired by the bright and sunny glimpses we experience during some of Michigan’s harshest winter days. To achieve such a profile, this year’s Lake Effect is an equal blend of coffee from three producers in East Africa. We rely on Samuel Degelo and Halo Hartume from Ethiopia to bring in familiar citrus fruits and sweet floral qualities to the blend. Tano Ndogo from Kenya provides a juicy mouthfeel and characteristics of rich stone fruits to balance the blend. The delicate final cup promises us that spring is just in the distance, with notes of blood orange, apricot, and elderflower.
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Monogram Coffee

Monogram Coffee: Trifle —Four different coffees have been layered (like a trifle!) to create a unique brewing experience where the flavours will mingle and change as you brew through the bag. As you enjoy Trifle, you’ll work your way through:
– a spicy anaerobic marsellesa natural from Costa Rica with delicious cinnamon notes
– a fermented honey processed castillo peach coffee from Colombia
– a delicious chiroso caturra natural with strawberry yogurt notes
– a fermented honey processed castillo grape coffee from Colombia

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Night Swim Coffee

Night Swim Coffee: Blue Orchid – Sumatra—Typically we expect specialty grade coffees to come from mountainous regions along the equator. Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, and Ethiopia rank among the largest coffee producing countries in the world, but I think people would be surprised to know that both Vietnam and Indonesia are #2 and #4 on that list. Connecting people to the places where coffee comes from, our core effort at Night Swim, provides us some unique opportunities to tell the stories of all kinds of coffee, not just ones we’re familiar with or are currently popular in the US market.

Over the next few months, we’ll begin highlighting coffees from China, El Salvador, Tanzania, Bolivia and this beautiful coffee from Indonesia. You can find coffees from these regions roasted by great roasters around the globe, but they’re new to Night Swim. I think a lot of coffee drinkers are probably really unfamiliar with coffees from Asia, and as we started thinking about how we wanted to focus our coffee menu for the upcoming months, we were simply excited to drink coffees that we don’t interact with very often.

This is a semi-washed or “wet-hulled” coffee from Sumatra, Indonesia. It’s fruity-sweet, tropical, and finishes like one of our favorite candy bars. We’re thrilled to offer this first installment in our initiative to highlight underrepresented coffee growing regions!

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