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.
Amavida Coffee RoastersThe BarnCXFFEEBLACKEquator CoffeesGreater Goods Coffee Co.Joe Coffee CompanyMadcap Coffee CompanyMonogram CoffeeMr. EspressoNight Swim CoffeeOlympia Coffee RoastersOnyx Coffee LabPartners CoffeePERC CoffeePortland Coffee RoastersStumptown Coffee RoastersVerve Coffee Roasters
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Amavida Coffee Roasters
Amavida Coffee Roasters: Burundi Nemba —This beautiful lot represents the unique flavors available in coffees from the region. It comes from the Nemba washing station in the Hills of Kayanza in Burundi. It’s sugary aroma is reminiscent of ginger, molasses and red fruit. Unique flavors of gingersnap cookies, apricot and molasses are balanced by a pleasantly citric cup.
The Barn
The Barn Coffee Roasters Berlin: Huey Mountain Natural —Rwanda is the land of 1000 hills and it has great growing conditions: High altitude, regular rainfall, rich soil and people working with passion. We have been buying coffee from Huye Mountain for over ten years now. Both the quality and cup profile have been very consistent over this whole period. Our natural processed lot has intense flavours of cherry, chocolate, and marzipan.
CXFFEEBLACK
Cxffeeblack: Ubudasa—Ubudasa is a Kinyarwandan word loosely translated to mean the uniqueness of something or how something just hits different. In partnership with Higa coffee, a natural anaerobic from Businide station in the Kayanza district in Burundi.
You already know, All-Black supply chain…
Proceeds from the sale of this coffee go to support Phase 2 of the Black Barista Exchange Program. Notes: Grape jolly rancher, Mango Jumex, and Cinnamon
Roast level: light roastSuggested brew: 18.5 g of coffee, Ratio 1:17, 194° , grind size: medium fine, Brew time: 4:00- 4:30
Equator Coffees
Equator Coffees: Colombia Cerro Azul Enano—A returning single origin favorite, Cerro Azul Enano is a complex Colombian coffee featuring the mysterious “Enano” coffee variety from our quality-obsessed friends at Granja La Esperanza.We love this coffee so much that we bought their entire harvest! This Equator Coffees exclusive is delicate, floral, and complex with flavors of jasmine, pink grapefruit, and creamsicle. Roasted fresh & shipped from the Equator Coffees roastery every Wednesday, available in 6oz, 12oz, and 2lb bags.
Greater Goods Coffee Co.
Greater Goods Coffee Roasters: Basha Bekele —Who doesn’t like candy?! Our latest release from Ethiopia is a juicy fruit bomb from the Sidama region. Grown at the mid-bending altitude of 2000 plus meters above sea level, this coffee is a great example of how clean and beautiful extremely highgrown coffee can be. If you’re someone who sees a naturally processed Ethiopian coffee and says, “yes, please”, then this lot from legendary produced, Basha Bekele, will be a coffee you’ll be thinking about for a long time. In the cup we got mouth-watering notes of dried strawberry, grape candy, and star jasmine. Takes it from us, this coffee as a pour over is a special event.
Joe Coffee Company
Joe Coffee: Lincoln Center —Summertime in New York City is an especially celebratory time—after a long winter and an all-too-short spring, the city transforms into an outdoor playground, bursting with the renewed energy of a community eager to reconnect. Designed to capture the unique spirit of the season, Lincoln Center is a juicy, dynamic coffee, perfect for summertime sipping. We’re proud to introduce this first-annual seasonal coffee in celebration of Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City, a festival which unites the community through the arts.
Especially delicious on ice, Lincoln Center is a washed lot from the Turihamwe women’s group in Ngozi, Burundi. This coffee’s quality shines through from the moment it’s ground, revealing florals, citrus, and brown sugar complexity. As you sip, it blossoms into something greater than the sum of its parts, with notes of ripe peach, tart tangerine, raspberry jam, and a grounding black tea bitterness to make the sweetness even more dynamic and memorable.
$1 from each bag of Lincoln Center sold will support Lincoln Center and Lincoln Center’s Young Artist Pipeline program in service of the next generation of artists and creators. The Young Artist Pipeline is a foundational arts training program for upper elementary and middle school students interested in developing craft and technique in a chosen art form, learning about the professional arts world, and potentially auditioning for and attending a screened arts high school. Pipeline seeks to address the opportunity gap that many students experience due to the prohibitive cost of training in the arts, and help create a sense of community and belonging at Lincoln Center.
Madcap Coffee Company
Madcap Coffee Company: Reko—One of Madcap’s most well-known single origin offerings gets its namesake from the Reko mountain and the Reko coffee washing station. In the Kochere district of Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia, Reko mountain is a tall, thin peak whose name translates to “challenge,” referring to the arduous task of summiting the cliffs. The coffee producers here have adopted its symbolic value to refer to their challenge of cultivating and processing the best coffee in the region. The coffee here is marked by its floral, tea-like, and complex quality. Even among world-class coffees, Reko is the sparkling gem of washed Ethiopian flavor. 2024 marks our eleventh year purchasing Reko, with this season’s lot gifting us notes of lemon candy, juicy peach, and turbinado sugar.
Monogram Coffee
Monogram Coffee: Don Isaias, Huila, Colombia —This Pink Bourbon from Don Isaias is a testament of hard work and striving to always improve. Don Isaias and local workers ferment the cherry for three days after harvest then dry for ten to fourteen days. The cup is well balanced with chocolate and fruit notes.
Mr. Espresso
Mr. Espresso: Italian Espresso Trio—A Trio of Italian Classics. Return to the place where espresso began with Mr. Espresso’s trio of regionally inspired blends from Tuscany, Trieste and Naples. The elegant medium-roast Tuscan offers sweet chocolate and butterscotch notes; the light-roast Triestino has complexity of nut and fruit; and the company’s medium-dark signature Neapolitan delivers dark chocolate, hazelnut and caramel.
Night Swim Coffee
Night Swim Coffee: Las Guacamayas – Natural—We Taste: Tropical Fruits, Caramel Cream, Syrupy This 100% Yellow Bourbon lot from Nehemias Pimentel and Hugo Pineda is a sundried, anaerobically fermented coffee. All coffee must go through some process that removes the seed (coffee bean) from the fruit (cherry-like) it resides in. Then the isolated seed undergoes some period of fermentation before it is cleaned up, dried out, and packed into bags for shipping to folks like us! A washed coffee is typically depulped mechanically and washed with clean water. A natural coffee is typically left in its fruit during the fermentation and drying process before being depulped mechanically.
The result of the anaerobic fermentation on this lot from Jutiapa is a sweet, fruity, and syrupy coffee that reminds us of tropical fruits and caramel cream.
Olympia Coffee Roasters
Olympia Coffee: Sweeetheart, Brazil Serra Dos Ciganos Natural—We obsess over perfecting Sweetheart’s roast profile, creating a sweet, balanced coffee with beautiful flavor clarity.
The region of Mogiana is known for exceptional quality and community strength. We sourced this lot from small farms in partnership with FAF, a supplier committed to environmentally and economically sustainable coffee.
Onyx Coffee Lab
Onyx Coffee Lab : Unnecessarily Soulful — Lamps x Onyx Collaboration. This limited offering was created in celebration of the release of Jon Lampley’s debut album, Night Service: Live at LunÀtico. Jon Lampley has been a major contributor to some of the most versatile, hardest-grooving ensembles currently at work, including The Late Show Band (of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), O.A.R., and Huntertones. Brew yourself a cup, and sit back and enjoy an album that pulls from Jon’s strongest inspirations, evoking a positivity that will leave you feeling delightfully and even unnecessarily soulful.
Partners Coffee
Partners Coffee: Block Party —Returning to our menu for its second year, Block Party is a celebration of the sunny days ahead. Designed to be enjoyed hot, iced, or cold brewed, it has a refreshing flavor profile perfect for summer.In a range of brewing methods you’ll find notes of strawberry, blueberry, watermelon, and pink lady apple bathing in rich caramelized sugars. In cold brew preparations, expect a silky body with pleasant flavors of nectarine, vanilla, and fudge pop.
In recognition of Pride Month, we are donating $1 from each bag of Block Party sold in June to The LGBT Center — an organization located in the heart of the West Village, less than half a mile from our Charles Street café. Founded in 1983, they offer a wide spectrum of programs for the LGBTQ+ community across New York City and beyond.
PERC Coffee
PERC Coffee: Honduras La Esmeralda—We’re back with another coffee from our pals at La Esmeralda in Honduras. The last coffee we sourced from them was so awesome that we had to come back for more. This lot is naturally processed, which contributes to its fruitier flavors in the cup. The first thing you’ll notice about La Esmerelda is the aroma. It has a strawberry candy-like scent (think Twizzlers.) In the cup, you get tons of sweetness with flavors that remind us of red fruit, marshmallows, and cacao, and a sweet finish that will have you coming back for refills all day.
Portland Coffee Roasters
Portland Coffee Roasters: Anniversary Roast—Dedicated to our customers who’ve supported us since we began in 1996: this Limited Release is a blend of coffees from Colombia and Costa Rica. The Colombia is from Finca Palmichal, and the Costa Rica is from Finca La Hilda. This coffee has a nice acidity and body, with some citrus fruit, plum, and chocolate notes.
Stumptown Coffee Roasters
Stumptown Coffee Roasters: Ecuador Rancho Carmen—This coffee is a combination of small lots from a group of 35 producers in Ecuador’s southernmost province. Rancho Carmen has a lush ganache body elevating notes of raspberry jam and brown sugar in a vibrant cup.
Verve Coffee Roasters
Verve Coffee Roasters : Limoncillo Farmlevel Reserve — This very rare mutated yellow Pacamara from El Limoncillo has a beautiful spiced and citric profile. Those who enjoy herbal and complex coffees will find this limited batch delightful.
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Sprudge Staff
June 16, 2024
