Blue Orchid Blend

$ 16.00

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 Santa Ines and a washed coffee grown by the ASOPCAFA Cooperative in Huila, Colombia. 

For more information on roasting and shipping, visit our FAQ page. 

Colombia Las Brisas

$ 17.00

We love the balance of approachability and jaw-dropping flavors that great Colombian coffees can exhibit, and Las Brisas has been one of our favorite Colombians for the past few years running.  Luckily for us the 9 farmers who produce Las Brisas have two harvests per year, and this smaller, second semester harvest is one of the best yet. We taste bright green grape, candied citrus, subtle pineapple, and a bit of savory complexity, but also the a base of caramel sweentess and nutty flavors that make it a friendly coffee for less-seasoned specialty coffee drinkers, too.

Las Brisas is grown by 9 farmers* in the municipality of Rioblanco, in the southwestern-most tip of Colombia's Tolima Department.  Coffee is grown throughout Colombia, but all of Huckleberry's offerings of the past year have come from the Southwestern area of the country.  Colombia is one of the few coffee-growing countries with two harvests, and this particular lot comes from the smaller October-December harvest, known as the Mitaca or Fly-Crop.

We roast quite a bit of coffee grown by small producers.  Las Brisas is unique in that the nine farmers mill, wash, and dry their coffee individually, at their farms.  Most of our other smallholder coffees, like Burundi Buhorwa, Ethiopia YirgZ, or Rwanda Kigeyo, for example, are picked and delivered in its cherry to a centralized washing station, where it is processed collectively.  Individual processing can create challenges for consistency and quality, but all of the farmers who make up Las Brisas are well-practiced in proper fermentation and washing, and dry their coffees on raised beds for slow, even drying and under greenhouse-like cover for protection from Colombia's rains.  

Careful growing, proven varieties, excellent terroir, and skilled processing help create an impeccable, dynamic coffee that we think you'll love.  Las Brisas has sweetness that lovers of more basic, milk-friendly coffees will enjoy, but also packs a punch of stellar, fruity brightness and the juicy flavors that excite the roasting team here at Huckleberry!

*Las Brisas is grown and micro-milled by Jose Gustavo Quintero, Ernesto Quintavio, Julio Ernesto Vasquez Quieto, Hernan Roberto Arias, Heiber Hernandez Perez, Nolberto Ñanguma Uribe, Ernesto Osorio, Luz Mila Rico, Jose Ider Zapata Quiñones, and their respective families.

For more information on roasting and shipping, visit our FAQ page. 

Colorful Colorado Mug

$ 10.00

We love Colorado! We're incredibly proud call it home. 

Whether your a native or new Coloradan, a local regular or traveling wanderer passing through, you should be putting your coffee in this mug!

The landmark "Welcome to Colorful Colorado" sign has been welcoming people to our state for many decades, we're excited to carry on the tradition in our own way. 

El Salvador San Rafael

$ 16.00

El Salvador San Rafael is an everyday drinker for us: caramel and nutty sweetness that we can serve to all of our friends and that pairs well with milk, but with a subtle peachy nuance that keeps us black coffee drinkers interested and coming back for more.

We buy a few coffees from individual farms (or fincas), and several coffees grown by cooperatives of smallholder farmers.  This coffee is unique in that it is grown on a cooperatively-owned and operated finca.  The Asociación Cooperativa Agropecuaria de Participación Real de San Rafael (ACAPARSAR) is a cooperative of 21 Salvadorans in the Los Naranjos area near the Santa Ana Volcano.  Many of these farmers own their own small plots, but the group also collectively owns a larger farm for both commercial production and experimental plots.  This lovely coffee comes from that cooperatively-owned farm.

Brewing for the whole family with different tastes? Want an easy-drinking coffee for the morning, before you're ready for that Ethiopian florality?  San Rafael should be your go-to.  Expect deep walnut sweetness, pie crust, peach, and a buttery, smooth body.

Ethiopia Ardi

$ 19.00

Ardi is an exceptional natural processed coffee from the Sidama region of Southern Ethiopia, and over the past few years, this coffee has gained a bit of a cult following among specialty roasters in the US.  As in year’s past, Huckleberry is excited to offer this amazingly fruity coffee, and this year’s crop is a juicy, clean standout.

Coffee is the seed of a fruit, and most of the coffee we roast and drink is washed - that is, the fruit is removed from the seed before drying.  For Ardi and other natural-process coffees, the coffee is dried with the fruit still intact, and the dried cherry is removed during milling.  This process imparts a uniquely fruity, jammy quality to the coffee, though improper and uneven drying carries a distinct risk of off, funky flavors and early fading.

Our importer, Samuel Demisse of Keffa Coffee, works directly with the Biru Bekele washing station in the town of Kilenso Mokonisa, Sidama to ensure that Ardi is picked and processed to the most exacting standards.  Approximately 1500 farmers contributed to this year’s crop of Ardi, and 200 women carefully manage the coffee’s drying process, removing over- or under-ripe cherries and constantly rotating the cherries to ensure evenness.

This year's crop has all of the juicy strawberry we've come to expect from Ardi, and is one of the cleanest Ardis to-date. Milk chocolate, tropical fruit, and mixed berry jam round out the cup.  Juicy, fruity, and jammy, just in time for peak iced coffee season!

For more information on roasting and shipping, visit our FAQ page.

Ethiopia Beriti

$ 19.00

We're starting off fresh crop Ethiopia season with a returning favorite from last year - Beriti!

Ethiopia is the birthplace of specialty coffee - the arabica species originally evolved in East Africa in or around Ethiopia - and Yirgacheffe is one of the country's and the world's most famous and prized growing regions.  The reputation is well deserved.  Thanks to native heirloom coffee varieties, unique growing conditions and a tradition of excellent coffee processing, the best Yirgs display florals, citrusy and fruity brightness, and delicate body that is tough to find anywhere else in the world.

Beriti is a great example of Yirgacheffe's wonderful coffee.  Beriti itself is a small microregion within the larger Yirgacheffe area, and like many great Ethiopian coffees, is grown by thousands of farmers on small plots of land that are more akin to gardens than farms.  The farmers in and around Beriti deliver their coffee to the town's Tore washing station, where they are paid for their coffee cherry and it is depulped, washed, and dried slowly with meticulous care.  Super high altitude (2000-2350 meters above sea level), great growing practices, and great attention to detail at the Tore washing station all contribute to a sweet, bright, and juicy cup.

We're always happy when we get to roast new crop coffees from Ethiopia, and we're looking forward to a great year of 2016 crop coffees.  Beriti's first for us in a season full of complex, bright, and unique coffees perfect for iced coffee and pourover brewing (but brew it however you like!). We taste delicate florals and citrus, a bit of herbal complexity, stone fruit and lychee, finished with a round, honeygraham sweetness.

Guatemala Atitlán el Grano

$ 16.00

Central American coffees are here, and we're starting off this part of the year with a returning favorite and our most hands-on producer relationship - Atitlán el Grano, grown by the AProCafé grower's association around the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala.

Lake Atitlán is a truly stunning body of water, surrounded by mountains on all sides, and three volcanoes on its southern shore.  The coffee growers of AProCafé are based on the southwest shore of the lake and the slope of Volcan San Pedro. Their rich volcanic soil, combined with well-managed organic growing practices and careful processing, contribute to a delicious coffee year after year.  AProCafé farmers also consider themselves stewards of the environment, growing their coffee with only organic inputs and taking care to properly treat their processing water.  Petrochemical fertilizers and improperly treated water from washing stations have contributed to various environmental problems in the area, including increased algae on the lake over the past decade.  AProCafé is one of several grower groups around Atitlán working to improve the environment while also producing tasty coffee.

El Grano has all of the deep chocolate, sweet nuttiness, and crisp acidity that we've come to expect from high altitude, well-produced Guatemalan coffees.  This coffee is also distinct, with a ripe red fruit characteristic - a bit of cherry, and a bit of red apple.  This unique flavor profile and the cooperative's commitment to sustainable development around Lake Atitlán set this coffee apart, and we're excited to roast and brew it for you here in Denver.

As with last year, Huckleberry is taking a more hands-on approach to working with AProCafé, with the goal of helping the group produce exceptional and unique coffees in the years to come.  Last year we worked to bring in the association's first single farm microlots.  This year we're expanding that program, and are using a portion of proceeds from our 2015 holiday blend to assist its growers with leaf rust prevention.  This particular coffee represents the whole grower association's joint effort, but over the next few months you should also keep your eyes peeled and pourover cones ready for some Huckleberry-exclusive microlots grown by individual farmers from AProCafé.

Kenya Karatina

$ 22.00

There's no denying it - we're suckers for juicy, bright, and fruit-forward coffees.  So, we always look forward to new coffees from Kenya, and we're super excited for this first offering of this season - Karatina!

The best Kenyan coffees are mouthwateringly complex - a combination of fruity brightness, deep sweetness, creamy mouthfeel and savory complexity that's unmatched anywhere in the coffee-growing world.  High altitudes and rich, red clay soil certainly contribute to these flavors, but Kenya's unique tradition of excellence is also largely a story of plant varieties and meticulous processing.

Kenya's government has taken a keen interest in not just coffee productivity, but also quality, working with Scott Laboratories from the 1930s-1960s to identify varieties based on both flavor and productivity.  This work has continued to this day with work on disease-resistant plants, but some of the varieties from this initial study, SL-28 and SL-34 in particular, are considered quality gems.  Additionally, Kenyan wet mills, called factories, have a unique approach to removing the fruit from the coffee seed that we eventually roast: extended double fermentation, two washes, and a post-wash soaking period before slow, raised bed drying.  In simpler terms, the best Kenyan producers add a few steps to the washing process that help draw out the savory complexity that makes Kenyan coffees so unique, while also helping to create a super clean, juicy cup.

Karatina is a prime example of how these different factors together create a killer coffee.  The Barichu Farmers Cooperative Society is a group of 4000+ coffee growers in Nyeri County, one of Kenya's most famed growing regions.  Some of these farmers deliver their coffee cherry - all SL-28 and SL-34 - to the cooperative's Karatina factory, where it is washed in the traditional-but-complicated Kenyan style, and dried slowly on raised beds.  There are lots of stellar Kenyan coffees, but in the case of Karatina, we think that all the layers of intentionality stack up to a true standout.

This is easily one of the most interesting and complex coffees in our lineup - we taste nectarine and peach, pink grapefruit, raw cane cugar, and characteristic Kenyan red currant and cranberry brightness.  It's not the first coffee we'll reach for if we're looking to add cream, but if you like your coffee black, juicy, and dynamic, this should be on your hot list.

Mexico La Cuesta

$ 17.00

It's been a little while since we've had a great Mexican coffee here at Huck, so we're super excited for this lovely coffee from Francisco Caraza and his farm in Veracruz: Finca La Cuesta.  La Cuesta is sweet and well-rounded, and like many Mexican coffees, it has plenty of chocolate and toasted nut flavors.  But it also has some complexity that we weren't expecting.  Concord grape jam, raisin, and subtle orange.

2 years ago, one of our best coffees hailed from Mexico, but 2014-2015 was a tough harvest, with both productivity and quality decimated by leaf rust and other climate concerns.  The challenges aren't over -  leaf rust and El Niño hit Mexico hard this year, too - but our partners at Caravela Coffee and Francisco Caraza have us stoked for Mexican coffees again. 

Shoutout to Caravela Coffee for being great partners, and for supporting both us roasters and small farmers in the quest for quality.  Caravela is an exporter and importer based in Colombia and North Carolina, and is the reason we're able to roast great coffees like Las Brisas and Salvador Vargas.  Recently, they've spread their wings to Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Mexico, too, working with farmers not just at the point of purchase, but at all steps of production.  Their unique model of extensive cupping throughout the harvest helps its growers find a market for all of their coffee, while also making sure that growers identify their best coffee from particular points in the harvest, and receive a great price for that greatness.   It also helps us find tasty coffees like La Cuesta, even during tough growing years.

¡Cheers to Francisco Caraza and Mexican coffee!  Expect a well-rounded brewed cup with or without milk, and an excellent single origin espresso.  Full bodied, dark chocolate and raisin flavors, balanced orange zest, sweet caramel - we think you'll like it.

Mixtape Sampler 4-Pack

$ 30.00

We made you a mixtape! A few of them, actually. 

Koan Goedman and Mark Mann, co-founders of Huckleberry Roasters, are products of the 1980's, which means a lot of things, but guarantees two: a soft spot for the cassette mixtape and being perpetually indecisive. 

For better or worse (we think better!), here's your chance to reap the rewards. Huckleberry Roasters gets that having options doesn't make your decision-making any easier. So, for our fellow indecisively-inclined coffee drinkers who might want to try 4 coffees from different parts of the world, we're proud to present our mixtape 4-pack!  

When ordered, our head roaster will hand select 4 of our absolute favorite single origin coffees and send it to the address of your choosing. Each box is locally screen printed by our Denver friends at ASPS and will contain 4 tins. Each tin will contain approximately 3-5oz of whole bean coffee. We will not include packing slips or receipts with these orders, so the box makes for a great gift!   

***Coffee pictured is not necessarily the coffee you will receive.***

 All photos provided by Needmore Designs and Unpacking Coffee. 

Phantom Limb Blend

$ 16.00

Phantom Limb is the wilder of Huckleberry’s two blends.  We designed the Phantom Limb to focus on fruit-forward flavors that one might not expect from a traditional espresso or drip blend.  When we have a coffee or two that work great as a fruity, bright, but still full-bodied espresso, we create a new version of Phantom Limb, and pull it in our cafes for straight shots and smaller milk beverages.

Unlike Blue Orchid, which sticks to a consistent flavor profile, Phantom Limb changes more drastically from one version to the next.  This current version showcases two coffees from Sidama, Ethiopia, one washed, one natural-processed. Each version of Phantom Limb will taste great as espresso and drip, but is intended to showcase the unexpected, unique flavors of its components, rather than adhere to anyone’s idea of a “traditional” espresso.

Even though we tend to use Phantom Limb as espresso in the two Huckleberry cafes, it’ll still taste great as a brewed coffee at home.  Expect jammy, fruity sweetness, tangy brightness, and a syrupy body.

Current Blend:  All from the Guji area of Sidama, Ethiopia: Sidama Hantate Natural and Sidama Guji Gr 1 Washed.

Current Tasting Notes: raspberry and blackberry, lemon brightness, floral aromatics, subtle cocoa.

For more information on roasting and shipping, visit our FAQ page.

Skeleton Key Decaf

$ 16.00

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, with chocolatey and nutty sweetness and a round body.  It works well as espresso or drip, with or without milk, and we only use Swiss Water Processed or Mountain Water Processed beans.

The current version of Skeleton Key is a Swiss Water Processed coffee from Huehuetenango, Guatemala.

For more information on roasting and shipping, visit our FAQ page. 

Travel Tumbler

$ 19.95

MiiR's take on the coffee tumbler is based on simplicity. This 12oz vessel has a zero-moving-parts lid which allows you to keep coffee grime at bay. Constructed of premium medical grade stainless steel it fits perfectly in a cup holder. Be the envy of your friends at your local cafe by toting this iconic little vessel. To top things off, MiiR provides one person in need with access to clean water for every bottle purchased, and they prove it with their unique impact bracelet. By registering the unique code on your bracelet you earn GPS coordinates and photos of the well project you helped fund. Well done.

• Double wall insulated for hot or cold drinks
• Is BPA-free
• Black press fit lid included
• Dishwasher safe (hand wash recommended for color tumblers)
• Each tumbler gives one person clean water for a year