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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 Sao Benedito Natural and a washed coffee from smallholder farmers in San Jose Poaquil, Guatemala.
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Civitas Blend
$ 16.00
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.
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Costa Rica Santa Maria
$ 19.00
Santa Maria is back and more special than ever. As one of two coffees from the Cooperativa de Caficultores de Dota (CoopeDota) we'll roast this year, it already has a special place in our hearts. This is our fourth year working with CoopeDota and roasting coffee from the village of Santa Maria, and this year we asked CoopeDota to prep our coffee a bit differently than they have in the past.
Each year the washed coffees from Santa Maria are both balanced and complex, and showcase why Central American coffees are among the most versatile and easy to drink. But to be honest, the quality hasn't held up quite as well as some of our other Centrals, and we've occasionally pulled Santa Maria from our single origin lineup a bit earlier than we'd hoped.
CoopeDota washes all of its coffees using an Eco-Pulper - a machine that uses significantly less water to remove the coffee's fruit and mucilage from the bean. While it's not necessary with this machine, the cooperative does give its microlots a chance to ferment before washing, which tends to boost complexity. But, Dota does dry the majority of its coffee on patio, occasionally resorting to mechanical dryers when there's less room on the drying patios. This year we asked (and paid a premium for) the cooperative to dry our coffee on raised beds, slowing down the drying process. In our limited experience, coffees dried on raised beds tend to taste better, for longer, than coffee dried more quickly on patios or in mechanical dryers.
Beyond their willingness to try something new for us, we're also excited to work with CoopeDota because the group has always been a sustainability leader in Costa Rica. In 2011 the cooperative produced the world's first certified carbon-neutral coffee, and is known for its work to reduce both its carbon and water footprints.
2020 Santa Maria has a lot going for it - milk-friendly chocolate flavors at the forefront, red grape and green apple brightness, creamy body and depth. Given their exceptional coffees and excitement to experiment a bit with drying, we're excited for the longhaul with CoopeDota, and are hopeful this year's coffee will taste awesome for the longhaul, too.
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East Timor Letefoho
$ 18.00
This is Huck's second year roasting coffee from farmers in East Timor's Letefoho district, and this year’s crop delivers big sweetness and approachable flavors.
Coffees from the Pacific islands can be big, bold, and in better cases, a good kind of earthy. But the wet hulled process that’s common in the region - in which the coffee’s protective parchment layer is removed before drying - lends itself to premature fade and vegetal, funky flavors. So, we specifically seek out washed coffees from the islands, dried in their parchment to preserve the goodness and keep out the funk. The tiny country of East Timor has been on the comeup the past few years, in large part by focusing on fully washed coffees.
Cafe Brisa Serena is a social enterprise that works with farmers in East Timor's Letefoho district to improve growing and processing practices, obtain organic certification, and access the specialty market. This particular coffee comes from organic-certified family farms in the tiny village of Eratoi, and is all washed on-farm, rather than at a centralized mill.
If you like your coffees big and approachable, this is the ticket. It’s not a dark roast, but we do develop this coffee just a touch further than most of our single origins to accentuate its body and chocolate flavors. Beyond the big body and chocolate, raisin, walnut and pastry sweetness round out the cup. Letefoho is nuanced, but at the same time traditional, approachable, and pleasing with (cow or alternate) milk or on its own.
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Ethiopia Chelbesa Natural
$ 19.00
Natural Ethiopia is back in the Huck lineup, and we’re kicking things off with this juicy and complex fruitbomb from Worka Chelbesa. Sweet berry and tropical fruit flavors are the main attraction here, and they’re complemented by some delicious florals and citrus. We'll be roasting washed and natural coffees from Worka Chelbesa side-by-side, and both of these are among the top-scoring coffees we'll offer all year.
SNAP Specialty Coffees has impressed us quite a bit over the last few years. They’ve exported and dry milled some of our favorite coffees from the Guji Zone, but also own a few washing stations throughout Ethiopia. This is the second year we'll be showcasing coffees from their stations in Worka Chelbesa. Worka Chelbesa is the highest kebele (village) in the Gedeb municipality, and Gedeb is well-known for producing some of the best coffees in Ethiopia's famous Yirgacheffe region.
Several years ago, SNAP built its first washing in Worka Chelbesa, and named it after the town. Our washed Worka Chelbesa comes from this original station, but ahead of the 2019/2020 harvest, SNAP built a second station in town, called Danche. Same kebele, at a slightly higher elevation to cater to farmers a bit outside of the main village. This year's Chelbesa Natural comes from this newest washing station and the 486 farmers who deliver coffee cherry.
Berries, tropical fruit, jammy goodness, with a touch of florality to mix things up. This one’s for all you fruity coffee lovers out there - we hope you enjoy this one as much as we do. We highly suggest brewing up Worka Chelbesa washed and Chelbesa Natural side-by-side. Maybe experiment a little and blend the two roasts before brewing. We'll give you a few more chances to taste washed and naturals from the same place, but in the roasting team's opinion, this may be the best-tasting pair of the year.
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*washing station photos courtesy Abenezer Asfaw of SNAP.
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Ethiopia Worka Chelbesa
$ 19.00
In this case, the village (kebele) of Worka Chelbesa is one of the highest towns in the woreda (more or less county) of Gedeb, in the larger Yirgacheffe zone. 680 farmers deliver coffee cherry to the Worka Chelbesa washing station, where the coffee is washed, dried, and sorted to the most exacting detail. We'll roast a natural from the same village soon, too, so you can try two coffees from the same place side-by-side, but first up, washed Worka Chelbesa slaps. Heady florals, bright citrus, clean and sweet fruit candy that'll make your taste buds water - especially as a filter brew or hot-over-ice iced coffee.
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*washing station photos courtesy Abenezer Asfaw of SNAP.
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Kenya Gondo Peaberry
$ 21.00
It's been several years since we've roasted a coffee from Kenya’s Gondo factory, but when we tasted this peaberry lot, we knew we couldn't pass it up. With bright raspberry and lime, sweet iced tea, honey, and just a touch of spice, Gondo Peaberry is the perfect kickoff to our 2020 Kenyas.
Kenya produces some of the world's most complex coffees, thanks to a combination of great growing conditions, government involvement in developing coffee varieties, and a unique, highly involved approach to washing coffee. The SL28 and SL34 coffee varieties, selected for the Kenyan government by Scott Labs in the middle of the 20th century, and a washing process that often includes two fermentation periods and a post-wash fresh water soak before drying, are often credited with creating coffees that are exceptionally bright, juicy, and sweet, with a tart red berry character that is distinctly Kenyan.
Plus, Kenyan producers grade their coffee based on bean size, with AA the largest, followed by AB, then PB, or peaberry. Most coffee cherries contain two seeds, but peaberries are the rare cherries that grow with just one. And while some folks claim that PBs are always the best, and some claim AAs are the top, we're gonna call BS on any claims of one size to rule them all. Sometimes the PBs are the best, sometimes AAs, and sometimes the AB blows both out of the water. But, the different sizes are often distinct, and the size grading both gives roasters a chance to taste more individual lots and make more specific selections, and produces a more uniform-sized bean to roast.
727 cooperative members deliver coffee cherry to Gondo, one of three factories (Kenya-speak for washing station) that make up New Kiriti Cooperative Society. While the AB lot was also very good, this PB absolutely floored us. It's juicy, it's mouthwateringly bright, and it's hella complex - this is exactly what we look forward to in Kenyan coffee.
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Nicaragua Entre Rios
$ 21.00
This is year four for Huck and Alberto Ramos, but this is the first year we're purchasing just his coffee. Over the past few years we've been happy to roast Nicaragua Las Colinas, from Alberto and his neighbor Alba López, but this year we decided to ask Alberto and the team at Caravela if we could source an even-better, single farm lot. And here it is.
Alberto named his farm Finca Entre Rios, because it sits between the San Francisco, San Isidro, and Margaritozo rivers. He's been farming his father's farm since his teens, but purchased his own land in 2007.
Nicaragua is kinda a weird origin, where it's common practice to wash coffee on farm, then deliver wet coffee to a central drying facility. In most other countries, it's more common to deliver coffee cherry or fully dried parchment. Cherry or dried parchment tends to be a bit easier to control, and in many Nicaraguan drying facilities/purchasing stations, there's a big risk that coffee will sit wet too long before drying, developing defects.
We rely on Caravela to connect us with many of our Latin American coffees, and we can depend on them for transparent pricing and consistent quality. In Nicaragua, Caravela has gone all-in to make the most of the country's atypical wet parchment situation, building two drying stations, including Beneficio La EstrellaWhile blended lots and concrete patios for quick drying are the norm, La Estrella has a huge system of raised, covered drying beds. This makes it easier to both keep small lots of coffee separate, and also slows down the drying process for optimal drying.
Las Colinas has been an approachable, dependable coffee for the past few years, and we're stoked to kick it up a notch with Entre Rios, from just Alberto Ramos. Alberto's coffee packs plenty of traditional flavors, but also pops a bit more in the cup. We're tasting milk-friendly pastry and milk chocolate, with just enough black cherry and pear to make this everyday drinker a bit more interesting.
Phantom Limb Blend
$ 17.00
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 Yukro Washed,Uganda Sipi Falls Natural
Current Tasting Notes: raspberry and blackberry, lemon brightness, floral aromatics, subtle 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.
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Skeleton Key Decaf
$ 17.00
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, 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 was grown by the Mustafa family in Risaralda, Colombia, and sugarcane-processed by La Real Expedición Botánica, a collective of farmers we work with for a few choice microlots. It has just a tiny bit more fruit than our usual decafs - we pick up some subtle raisin and dried cherry - but packs all the chocolate, caramel, and sweet nuttiness we always highlight in Skeleton Key.
The current version of Skeleton Key is a sugarcane-decaffeinated coffee from Finca Mustafa in Risaralda, Colombia.
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Sound and Vision Blend
$ 17.00
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: 40% Brazil Fazenda Sao Benedito, 50% Guatemala San Jose Poaquil, 10% Uganda Sipi Falls Natural
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Uganda Sipi Falls Natural
$ 19.00
2020 marks Huck's third harvest roasting coffee from farmers in Gamatui Village in the Sipi Falls region of Eastern Uganda. This year we're starting these coffees out with a natural, and will follow up with washed and honey-processed coffees from the same farmers once they land in the US a bit later.
Last year was our first year roasting up a natural from Uganda, and we've been looking forward to this for a few months now. It rivals some of our favorites from Ethiopia, but thanks in part to different coffee varieties (SL28 and SL34), this one carries a bit more chocolate and body.
Sipi Falls is one of Uganda's most famous landmarks, and much of the country's best coffee comes from the region. Huck specifically seeks out the coffees from Gamatui, the highest altitude community that delivers coffee to the Sipi Falls Washing Station in the town of Chema. That high altitude, combined with Sipi Falls Washing Station's impressive attention to detail, yields complex, delicious, and juicy goodness in the cup.
Uganda is an up-and-coming coffee-producing country, but the coffees from Sipi Falls and Gamatui village have quickly become coffees we look forward to each year. We’re stoked to showcase and support the improvements in Ugandan coffee, but more importantly, we’re just stoked to have this coffee in our mugs. Sipi Falls Natural packs dark fruit flavors of concord grape and berry jam, rounded out with dark chocolate sweetness and a round body. If we had to pick a natural to hold us over until fresh crop Ethiopias (and we do!), we're hard-pressed to find a better one than this.
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images courtesy Atlantic Specialty Coffee
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Uganda Sipi Falls Washed
$ 19.00
Most of the coffee from Sipi Falls is washed using an eco-pulper - a machine that can remove the coffee's sticky mucilage without fermentation to break down the sugars and pectin. These machines are great in that they use far less water than the typical washing process, but in our opinion, fermentation - done slightly differently at every farm or washing station - adds something special to the coffee. Sipi Falls does produce a few microlots with extended fermentation before eco-pulping, and over the past few years we've honed in on these extended fermentation lots. The one downside is that this year, we couldn't hop on an earlier shipment because there wasn't an earlier shipment.
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