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Join our roasting crew and learn a little something something about what it looks like to cup coffee!
We'll be hosting you at our fully operational roasting space and warehouse, 1255 W Virginia Ave, Denver, CO, on Thursday, March 21st at 10 AM for this fun event, so you must be local to the area in order to join in.
We'll start the cupping with a tour of our warehouse and then get down to business – in totality this event will run about 1.5 hours.
To register, select whether you'd like to take home a bag of coffee, or simply take part in the cupping, and then mark you calendar!
We can't wait to hang out!
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Late winter into spring is a time for Southern Hemisphere coffees to shine, and we're stoked to kick off Southern Hemisphere Africas with Ruli!
Dukundekawa Musasa is one of the larger cooperatives in Rwanda, and they group their producers into smaller cells. The Ruli cell also has yet another sub-group, the Rambagirakawa women’s group, made up of quality-driven female members of the cooperative. Beyond coffee, the group focuses on helping its members attain higher pricing, and re-invests its premiums into women’s health and education initiatives, agronomy support, and microcredit loans for its members. While our much smaller natural lot comes from a co-ed group of farmers, this washed coffee was grown exclusively by the Rambagirakawa group.
One of the reasons we love Rwandan coffee is that the country is planted almost entirely in Bourbon, a coffee variety that lends a deep, sugary, syrupy sweetness. Variety, rich red clay soil, meticulous picking and sorting, and careful processing all work together to layer that sweetness with sparkling acidity complexity.
Ruli brings a combination of fruit-driven acidity and deep sweetness to the lineup. We're tasting cranberry, shortbread cookies, meyer lemon, and apricot in this years’ crop! We’ll also have a tiny amount of natural Ruli, coming soon, but exclusive to Huckleberry’s cafes and webstore.
*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***
$ 23.00
*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***
$ 22.00
*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***
Pictured: Arlison Cortés, from Shelby's sourcing trip in 2023.
$ 21.00
Peru is one of the most promising coffee producing countries in the world right now, with both loads of quality and tons of untapped potential. With the world’s second highest mountain range running North-South through the country, Peru has the altitude to continue producing great coffee in the face of global warming, the country has largely embraced organic farming practices, and as the coffee industry works to single out small farmers from the country’s tradition for large, regional lots, we’re tasting some true gems. This is year 4 for us showcasing the Peralta family's delicious coffee.
Mavila Peralta spearheads coffee processing on her family's plot, but also incorporates coffees from her brother's and mother's adjoining plots, and their coffee is a dependable balance of approachable, milk-friendly flavors and complimentary fruit. We’re tasting brown sugar, blackberry, pear, nougat, and pastry in our mugs. The fruit’s a bit more pronounced than in years past, but traditional sweetness is still the star of the show..
We’re excited to work towards the future with the Peraltas and the other farmers in the larger Origin Coffee Lab network. Origin is an exporter dedicated to transparency, farmer assistance, fair pricing, and full traceability, and we roast coffees from their network throughout our lineup, from microlots like this from the Peraltas, to community and cooperative blends in Blue Orchid, Sound and Vision, and Civitas. While great farm location, varieties, and farm practices are undeniably a huge factor, there’s always some level of chance when it comes to microlot-quality coffee. So it’s important to us to not just cherry-pick from the top, but also support growers at a level that’s a bit more attainable without the fortune of good luck. This is our ideal purchase model, and close to what we strive for in other origins like Guatemala: commit to buying coffee from a group of farmers at a level they can consistently attain, and showcase the gems.
Familia Peralta is sweet and approachable, but juicy and complex enough to keep things interesting, and it's great to have this everyday drinker back for another year at Huck.
$ 22.00
Bright, floral, complex and full of stone fruit + melon flavors, the Yirgacheffe Cooperative Union delivers another dope washed Ethiopia to the Huck roastery!
Banko Dhadato is one of the 22 cooperatives that make up the Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, and while we’ve traditionally focused on the Aramo Cooperative, this year Banko Dhadato was just too good to ignore. YCFCU is a longstanding leader in organic farming and sustainable agriculture in Ethiopia, and while Huck roasts coffees from both private washing stations and cooperatives, we’re always happy to support YCFCU.
The Banko Dhadato Cooperative sits in the southern portion of the greater Yirgacheffe coffee region, closer to Gedeb woreda than Yirgacheffe town itself. Like the Aramo cooperative we’ve roasted in the past, Banko Dhadato sits to the east, high up on the ridge dividing the Yirgacheffe and Guji regions, and we’ve found ourselves consistently gravitating to these higher, eastward Yirgs, be they from the Yirgacheffe Union or private washing stations like Worka Chelbesa and Danche.
We’re tasting jasmine + honeysuckle florals, white plum, melon, and creamy-bright key lime pie in this first Huck lot from Banko Dhadato Cooperative, and we’re stoked to showcase this coffee as our final washed Ethiopia of the 2023 harvest!
*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***
$ 23.00
For many of us who work in specialty coffee, Ethiopian naturals were our gateway drug. The best examples are so intensely fruity and complex that after tasting your first, it's hard to think of coffee as just coffee anymore.
Natural-processed coffees - dried in the cherry rather than after removing the fruit - are by no means new to us at Huck, and we roast naturals from all over the world. But there's something special about how the fruit-forward processing combines with floral Ethiopian heirloom coffee varieties, so these coffees hold a special place in our hearts. While Basha Bekele is a new name for us here, it’s our second year roasting coffees from this group of farmers in Sidama.
Basha Bekele and his family operate a small farm near Shantewene village in Sidama, Ethiopia, and are part of a group organized by Buriso Amaje, another farmer in the area, dedicated to helping individuals sell their fully-processed coffee directly to foreign buyers, rather than selling just-harvested cherry to a cooperative or washing station. While there's nothing inherently wrong with the collective processing method, farmers who do a good job processing their own coffee can keep a bit of added value at the farm.
While Basha does primarily work with his own coffee, most farmers who do their own processing also purchase some coffee cherry from their neighbors, and these farmers are often called outgrowers.
We're excited to roast up this goodness from Basha Bekele and his neighbors, and are seriously enjoying its intense complexity. We're tasting blueberry, maple syrup, guava, and watermelon in this jammy and delicious natural.
*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***
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Pacamara coffee beans are huge, and these Pacamara beans are honey-processed. Hence, big honey.
Breaking that down a bit more, in the honey process, coffee producers depulp the skin off of the coffee seed, but leave some or most of the sticky inner fruit (honey) on the bean for drying. It splits the difference between natural process (beans dried in the cherry) and washed process (all the fruit removed and washed off before drying), and when done well, honey-processed coffees can exhibit some of the best qualities of both. Fruity, but not as intense as a natural, and clean like a washed process, but often with a touch more body.
And Pacamara is a variety of arabica coffee. It’s a cross between Pacas, a more standard-size (and traditional-tasting) variety common in El Salvador, and Maragogype, the original “elephant bean” and a natural mutation found in Brazil in the 1870s. Pacamara has great flavor potential, but can be a bit tricky to roast. The beans are bigger, and often a touch less dense, and this affects the thermodynamics of roasting in a way that we’re not qualified to explain, and tbh this bio is way too long as-is.
Anywho, we like this coffee, and the folks behind it. This is our second year roasting both washed and honey-processed coffees from Cafénor in El Salvador, and we’re down with both the coffee and the ethos behind it.
Cafénor is a socially-minded private wet and dry mill that aims to produce coffee as ecologically as possible. Founded by Alejandro Valiente and operated by Alejandro and his daughter Valeria, the mill itself, where Cafénor processes coffee cherry or purchases fully-dried coffee from nearby producers and prepares it for export, is carbon-negative.
This Pacamara was grown by several farmers in Metapan, and honey-processed both on-farm and by Alejandro and the team at the Cafénor mill. Black cherry cola, a bit of green apple/lime brightness, with praline and chocolate syrup to round out the cup. Syrupy mouthfeel and sweetness as big as the beans themselves.
*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***
Pictured: Alejandro Valiente, founder of Cafénor El Salvador
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Sergio Enamorado is back at Huck, and while his coffee’s been good every year we’ve roasted it, there’s no doubt that Sergio has seriously stepped up his quality for the last two harvests.
Two winters back, we had the pleasure of visiting Sergio, and beyond strengthening what had been a WhatsApp texting friendship, it was great to see just how dedicated he and his family are to quality. Sergio's son, Sergio Jr., is just as passionate and almost as knowledgeable as his dad, and the extended Enamorado family works together to make all of their coffees better.
Most of the extended family - grandfather Pedro Moreno, father Encarnación Enamorado, cousin Evin Moreno - live and farm in the village of El Cedral on Santa Barbara mountain. Each family member processes their coffee separately, but they all share the same processing compound and equipment, including a depulper, washing tanks, and parabolic drying beds. Pedro and Encarnación oversee drying and a small nursery for the extended family, and when it comes time to harvest one family member's farm or another, Sergio's able to lean on Evin for help, and vice versa.
There's plenty to love in this coffee, whether you flock to the fruity and bright or prefer more traditional Latin American flavors that pair well with milk. This year’s harvest has plenty of caramel-like sweetness with just a touch of spice, but Sergio has fine-tuned his processing techniques, and that helps his coffee dip its toes into more adventurous waters. Like many producers, Sergio has started to intentionally hold his coffee in-cherry between picking and depulping, and over the years he’s fine-tuned this method to bring out some delicious fruity acidity that reminds us of pomegranate, tamarind candy, and green apple.
*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***
Pictured: Sergio + Ru Anai Enamorado; Sergio Jr., Ru Anai, and Sergio Sr.; Encarnación Enamorado (Sergio's dad)
$ 20.00
Cafénor is relatively new sourcing for Huck, but back for year two, and we hope for the long haul!
Cafénor is the brainchild of Alejandro Valiente, and after spending some time with Alejandro and the Cafénor team this past February, we're hooked. Alejandro grew up producing coffee, and after cutting his teeth setting up Central America operations for a larger multinational exporter, he returned home with the goal of doing things right. He's a true believer in the push for more environmentally- and economically-sustainable coffee, and Cafénor puts carbon neutrality and farmer payments first and foremost in its coffee mission.
Cafénor works with a dedicated group of growers in the Metapan area year-after-year, coordinating group purchases of farming inputs and equipment, and aiming to deliver 80-85% of the final export price directly to the farmer. Millers and exporters (including the fair ones!) usually absorb a significantly larger cut of the export price. Moreover, Cafénor is fully carbon neutral, and the mill - where the team both processes and dries cherry from certain growers, and mills dried coffee for export, runs entirely on solar and wind power. It definitely does take the team a bit longer to mill coffee for export, given the limitations of a self-contained operation with limited electric supply, but it's a price they're willing to pay for the bigger picture.
Here at Huck, there’s no question that we love fruity, bright, complex coffees. But we also appreciate coffee that just tastes like good coffee, and that’s where this washed lot from the Productores (producers) de Cafénor hits. Sweet, straight-forward, no surprises. Just a damn good, pleasant Central American coffee, and one of theless-fruity coffee in our single origin lineup right now. There’s a touch of yellow apple and citrus there, but milk-friendly nougat, chocolate wafer, and toasted almond flavors are the stars of the cup here.
Beyond this washed lot from the group, we’re also looking forward to a fruitier, honey-processed Pacamara, but all in due time. With Productores Cafénor, we’re here to enjoy some straightforward, but delicious coffee from sustainably-minded folks.
*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***
Pictured: Alejandro Valiente
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Phantom Limb is a 2021 Good Food Awards Winner!
Phantom Limb is the wildest of Huckleberry’s blends. We conceived Phantom Limb to focus on fruit-forward flavors that one might not expect from a traditional espresso or drip blend.
Phantom Limb is an East African showcase, highlighting both natural and washed coffees. Phantom Limb will taste great as espresso and drip, but is intended to showcase the unexpected, unique flavors of its components - jam and berries from the natural process and the lemonade, clean, floral goodness we love in washed Africans - rather than adhere to anyone’s idea of a “traditional” espresso. If you want to think about it in terms of candy, Blue Orchid is your Tootsie Roll or Milky Way, Phantom is your bag of Jolly Ranchers or pack of Starbursts.
Even though we tend to use Phantom Limb as espresso in the two Huckleberry cafes, most often for straight shots and the smaller milk beverages, it’ll still taste great as a brewed coffee at home. Expect floral undertones, tangy brightness, and jammy, fruity sweetness, .
Current Blend: Ethiopia Yabitu Koba and Banko Dhadato Washed, Ethiopia Riripa Natural
Current Tasting Notes: red grape and blackberry, lemon brightness, floral aromatics, cocoa.
Many people suffer from phantom pain, limb loss or limb difference (including customers of ours) and therefore with every purchase of this blend we try to raise awareness and money by donating a portion of proceeds to local amputee support organizations. All of our coffee blends are named after songs that have significance for our company's history. Phantom Limb is a song by The Shins that was one of the first conversations that Koan and Mark ever had.
Here's a link to one of the three organizations that this blend supports.
$ 18.00
Blue Orchid is Huckleberry’s house espresso blend. We serve this coffee every day in our cafes, and it is designed to be approachable, both as espresso and as a brewed coffee, with and without milk. If you’ve ever had a great latte experience at one of Huckleberry’s cafes, Blue Orchid was the base.
While the Blue Orchid blend does change frequently, we try to maintain a sweet, full-bodied, chocolate and caramel flavor profile by using Central and South American coffees specifically chosen for those qualities. This is great tasting comfort coffee, and is a well-rounded crowd pleaser, especially if some of that crowd likes cream in their cup, or is still making the transition from darker roast profiles into specialty coffee. We love intense floral aromatics, but some mornings we just want the chocolate, toffee, and a bit of milk in our mug, and for those days, Blue Orchid is our go-to.
The current version of Blue Orchid is a blend of Brazil Fazenda Cotrim e D'Allesandro and Peru La Higuera.
*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***
$ 18.50
Who doesn’t like David Bowie? We like David Bowie.
Bowie's pretty much always the right choice. And while there are plenty of moments when we reach for that Misfits record and a cup of bright Kenyan coffee or some NSFW early 90's gangsta rap and a cup of slightly savory coffee from Sulawesi, we also value both music and coffee that's always the right choice, no matter the audience. Something that'll please both the classic rock fans and the hipsterest hipsters. In our blend lineup, that’s where Sound & Vision comes in. It’s not quite as poppy and in-your-face as Phantom Limb or many of our single origins, but we also wanted to give folks a bit more intrigue than tried-and-true Blue Orchid.
So, we’ve started out with a chocolatey, full-bodied Latin American base very similar to Blue Orchid, and kicked it up just a tiny bit with a small amount of natural-processed East African goodness. A tiny bit of fruit and brightness to keep the more discerning palates satisfied, but also plenty of comforting, traditional flavors for folks who want their coffee to taste “bold” or “like coffee, damnit.” Confident on its own, but also plays very well with milk.
Do you like cold brew, too? This also happens to be the blend that we use in our kegged cold brew, so if you’re too far away for us to deliver a keg, don’t have a tap system, or just want to do it yourself for any other reason, Sound & Vision is our go-to cold brew suggestion. What about espresso? We're pulling shots of S+V as our house espresso at our Dairy Block café in downtown Denver. Whether it's a shot, a cup full of ice, or a filter brew for a crowd, Sound and Vision is an easy choice.
Current Blend: 50% Brazil Fazenda Cotrim e D'Allesandro, 40% Peru La Higuera, 10% Ethiopia Riripa Natural
*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***
View full product details$ 19.00
Don't call it a dark roast! Okay, okay...we won't.
How about we call it Civitas and say it's "a slightly darker roast with slightly longer development"? Yea, that sounds cool!
In either case, we're excited about this one! Huck has long believed that we should (or could) be just as proud of our darker & more developed coffees, as we are of our lighter offerings.
It just took us a while to find a roast profile that still checked all the boxes for us!
Our Civitas blend is meant for the fan of a full bodied coffee with notes of dark sugars, chocolate, toffee, and a great nuttiness -- not unlike our Blue Orchid Blend, but a hair darker than that.
Civitas is currently a community blend from La Higuera, Colosay, Peru.
*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***
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We love coffee for a lot of reasons. We love the flavors of a cup that's been sourced, roasted, and brewed with care, and we love sitting down with friends and a few mugs. Most of the time, we love that subtle kick of caffeine, too.
Sometimes though, we like to have a bit of coffee when we're already way too wide awake, so offering a great decaffeinated coffee is important to us at Huckleberry. Skeleton Key is the same decaf coffee that we serve in both of our Huckleberry's cafes, and we're finally bagging it for you to bring home and enjoy after dinner, or whenever you're craving coffee without the jitters.
Skeleton Key is a seasonally-rotating coffee chosen for versatility, roasted to work with or without milk, as espresso or brewed coffee.
In the past we’ve always roastedSwiss Water Processed or Mountain Water Processed beans for Skeleton Key, but over the past few years a new process, using sugarcane-derived ethyl acetate, has become an increasingly prevalent and chemically-safe alternative. And while water process can only occur at two plants in the world, in large batches, Colombian producers can produce sugarcane decafs in-country, in smaller batches.
The current version of Skeleton Key is a sugarcane-processed decaf from Cauca, Colombia, with a touch of fruit and all the chocolate, caramel, and sweet nuttiness we always highlight in Skeleton Key.
*** for roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions ***
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Holy cow, everyone. We really went all-in for our new instant coffee line. Colorado is so intertwined with life outdoors, and we wanted to be a bigger part of that world. We partnered with Swift Cup again, and they delivered yet another tasty batch of instant coffee for our customers on the go, whether that be into the woods or onto a plane. Good coffee is no longer relegated to the coffee shop or your home set-up.
Enjoy our Blue Orchid blend anywhere you like! If you want a cup blasting with chocolate with a more traditional coffee vibe, this is for you.
Mix a packet/sachet with 10-12oz HOT/COLD water, HOT/COLD milk, hot cocoa or anything else you like! Whiskey? Totally approved!
The packaging on these babies is fully compostable, but please, be responsible and pack it in, pack it out.
Enjoy Hucksters!
View full product details$ 16.00
Holy cow, everyone. We really went all-in for our new instant coffee line. Colorado is so intertwined with life outdoors, and we wanted to be a bigger part of that world. We partnered with Swift Cup again, and they delivered yet another tasty batch of instant coffee for our customers on the go, whether that be into the woods or onto a plane. Good coffee is no longer relegated to the coffee shop or your home set-up.
Phantom Limb Blend is not only a staple at Huck, but it is an award winning coffee. We are so proud to have this Good Food Awards Winner on the menu year round, and now, we have it ready to brew anywhere anytime. Delve into an award winning cup of juicy, fruity perfection on a plane, in the forest or on a long cross-country car trip.
Mix a packet/sachet with 10-12oz HOT/COLD water, HOT/COLD milk, hot cocoa or anything else you like! Whiskey? Totally approved!
The packaging on these babies is fully compostable, but please, be responsible and pack it in, pack it out.
Enjoy Hucksters!
View full product details$ 16.00
Holy cow, everyone. We really went all-in for our new instant coffee line. Colorado is so intertwined with life outdoors, and we wanted to be a bigger part of that world. We partnered with Swift Cup again, and they delivered yet another tasty batch of instant coffee for our customers on the go, whether that be into the woods or onto a plane. Good coffee is no longer relegated to the coffee shop or your home set-up.
Enjoy our Sound and Vision blend anywhere you like! This is the perfect cup of coffee for those looking big body, tons of chocolate and just a touch of berry.
Mix a packet/sachet with 10-12oz HOT/COLD water, HOT/COLD milk, hot cocoa or anything else you like! Whiskey? Totally approved!
The packaging on these babies is fully compostable, but please, be responsible and pack it in, pack it out.
Enjoy Hucksters!
View full product details$ 16.00
The folks at Swift Cup Coffee are masters in making a great brew mighty quick, which is something we can get behind!
They’ve helped us deliver yet another tasty batch of instant coffee for our customers on the go, whether that be into the woods or onto a plane. Good coffee is no longer relegated to the coffee shop or your home set-up – cheers to that!
Coming from Guatemala, our Aprocafé Atitlán is all about perfecting balance – we're tasting bright red apple, creamy milk chocolate, almond and subtle berries in our cups!
You can mix this sachet with 10-12oz HOT/COLD water, HOT/COLD milk, hot cocoa or anything else you like! Whiskey? Totally approved!
Enjoy!
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The folks at Swift Cup Coffee are masters in making a great brew mighty quick, which is something we can get behind!
They’ve helped us deliver yet another tasty batch of instant coffee for our customers on the go, whether that be into the woods or onto a plane. Good coffee is no longer relegated to the coffee shop or your home set-up – cheers to that!
Coming from Ethiopia, Majoo Natural is all that you want in a fruit-forward cup, we're tasting blackberry jam, sweet honeydew and sugar cookie, with some delicate florals.
You can mix this sachet with 10-12oz HOT/COLD water, HOT/COLD milk, hot cocoa or anything else you like! Whiskey? Totally approved!
Enjoy!
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