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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 Sitio Santo Antonio and Peru Aldea Laurel.
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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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Colombia El Desarollo
$ 19.00
El Desarollo is back - one of our favorite coffees for the last 5 years. While we called this coffee Matambo for a few years, it's always come from the El Desarollo Growers Association, and this group of farmers has produced a coffee that's deeply sweet and subtly complex, year-after-year!
The best Colombias - and particularly the best Huilas - pull off a balance between approachability and exciting flavors that few other origins can match. This latest crop is a perfect example of that balance, popping with red berry and plum fruitiness, but rounding out the pop with dark honey and buttery pie crust sweetness.
We had the pleasure of visiting Asociación de Cafeteros el Desarollow in August of 2017 with Caravela, one of our favorite sourcing partners in Latin America. Read more about that visit here to see why we're stoked for yet another great year with the El Desarollo Growers Association and the long game with these growers and Caravela in Colombia.
We think El Desarollo has something for everyone. Plenty of traditional coffee flavors and sweetness for those who prefer a more approachable or milk-friendly mug, but also packing juicy, fruity flavors and high-end brightness to please folks who prefer more adventurous coffees. Year 5 of this gem from Gigante, and we’re looking forward to brewing it for the next few months!
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Ecuador Bosque de Marfil
$ 20.00
Bosque de Marfil is back for its third year in the Huck lineup, and we’re excited to brew this one up over the next few months. Black cherry, nougat, macadamia nut and fudge flavors dominate a complex, but sweet and comforting cup.
Bosque de Marfil is the name of a forest in the center of Ecuador’s southernmost Loja province, and the 44 farmers who produce this coffee call this forest home. Sitting high in the Limo mountain range, the bosque provides great shade for coffee production, and abundant natural resources that help these farmers earn secondary income in the months between one coffee harvest and the next.
As is the case with many of our Latin American coffees, we’re excited to source Bosque de Marfil through Caravela Coffee. Caravela helps ensure us dependably great coffees, and provides farmers with access to on-farm assistance plus fair, transparent pricing structures. It’s a win-win, and it makes them one of our favorite partners in Latin America.
As far as the cup goes, it’s a sweet, delicious ride. Cherry cola sweetness, chocolate-molasses sweet-spice, creamy nut notes, and a touch of green apple brightness, with a syrupy body. It’ll hold up to milk just great, and we’ll be brewing it plenty as a single origin espresso, but we’re also more than glad to drink this black - it’s a lively and juicy everyday drinker.
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Ethiopia Worka Chelbesa
$ 20.00
Huck’s first washed Ethiopian coffee of the 2020/21 harvest is clean, bright, and refreshing for the summer heat. This is our third year roasting coffee from the village of Worka Chelbesa (and the washing station of the same name), and this year's washed coffee pops. We’re tasting pink lemonade, hibiscus, and melon candy in a bright, delicate, and complex cup.
We’ve been pretty impressed with SNAP Specialty Coffees 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. Worka Chelbesa is one of those stations, and we've quickly learned to look forward to this coffee year-after-year.
One of the things we love about the entire SNAP network is that they specialize in traceable, smaller lots - breaking the harvest into shorter periods and keeping each period separate. This helps ensure that what we taste when we first approve the coffees truly represents what we’ll roast for you, and that each bag will be consistent with the last. Also, the crew at SNAP is legitimately interested in how their coffees perform here in the US - quick to answer any questions we have, and quick to ask how the coffees are tasting. Boring details, maybe, but as we get a bit more involved in our sourcing and digging into where our coffees come from, these are the things we’re looking for to get y’all that tasty coffee.
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 station 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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Good Food Awards Winner! Phantom Limb Blend
$ 17.00
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 Worka Chelbesa Washed, Ethiopia Tegenge Ocholo 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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Kenya Kiaguthu
$ 22.00
Othaya Farmers Cooperative Society is a union of cooperatives in Kenya's famed Nyeri county, and Kiaguthu is one of the 17 factories (Kenya coffee-speak for these first-tier cooperatives) that make up the larger group. All in all, approximately 10,000 coffee growers make up Othaya FCS, just over 400 of whom deliver their coffee to Kiaguthu, where it is washed in the traditional Kenyan style, and dried slowly on raised beds.
Peru El Pepino
$ 19.00
El Pepino is Huck’s 2nd Peru for the year, and it’s just tasty, approachable coffee. We’re picking up chocolate, nectarine, subtle orange, and almond in a coffee that’s a bit bright, but also sweet and comforting.
For the past several years, coffees from the small village of Laurel, in Peru’s San Ignacio province, have been a mainstay of the Huckleberry lineup. We work with Origin Coffee Lab, an exporter dedicated to transparency, farmer assistance, fair pricing, and full traceability, and they help us source excellent coffee from Aldea Laurel, including gems like El Pepino and our other Peru single origin this year, Mavila Peralta.
Coffee is an agricultural product, and it can be fickle. While good practices help create good luck, one year a farmer might produce eye-popping, exceptional coffee, and the next year their coffee might just be very good, often due to factors outside their control. Is it ideal? No. Is it okay? Yes, and it’s just reality. So whenever possible, we try to purchase the coffee that farmers can produce year-after-year with average luck, while also picking out the truly exceptional lots that are a combination of good practices and good luck.
In this case, we commit to a relatively large amount of very good, mixed producer coffee from the Aldea Laurel community, and this forms a backbone of Blue Orchid, Civitas, and Sound and Vision for half of the year. Origin Coffee Lab then gives us the chance to cherry-pick from within the community, selecting individual farms to highlight on their own. This year we’re highlighting coffee grown by Mavila Peralta and this lot produced by Florian Padilla.
The Padilla family is earning a reputation for quality here at Huck. Last year we roasted Finca La Mandarina (orange), from Florian’s brother Ismael, but this year Finca El Pepino (cucumber) was our favorite non-coffee-crop-named farm from the community. We’re tasting stone fruit, chocolate, almond, and citrus in this coffee that’s definitely bright, but also comforting and milk-friendly.
Mavila Peralta was a great first Peru for the year, and we’re excited to keep the ball rolling with El Pepino!
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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 Sitio Santo Antonio, 50% Peru Aldea Laurel, 10% Ethiopia Tegenge Ocholo Natural
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Uganda Sipi Falls Natural
$ 19.00
2021 marks Huck's fourth harvest roasting coffee from farmers in Gamatui Village in the Sipi Falls region of Eastern Uganda, and after a very chaotic start to 2021, we’re excited to have this natural and a washed Sipi Falls back in the roast lineup!
Year 4 of Sipi, year 3 of Sipi Nat, 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.
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This year we’ve been waiting on our Sipi Falls coffees a bit longer than usual, thanks to chaotic and violent politics in Uganda. The country had a presidential election just as our coffees should have left the country, and after the sitting president declared victory over his opponent and protests erupted, he shut down the country and began to jail members of the opposition. We’re not in a place to pontificate on Ugandan politics, nor are we sure how this year’s crop of Sipi Falls fits into that picture, but we couldn’t happily release a Ugandan coffee without mentioning the country’s turmoil.
We would highly suggest listening to The Messenger podcast to learn a bit about Ugandan politics. And if you have any insights or thoughts on how we might better consider the country’s political situation in our coffee buying, please get in touch.
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images courtesy Atlantic Specialty Coffee
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Uganda Sipi Falls Washed
$ 19.00
2021 marks Huck's fourth harvest roasting coffee from farmers in Gamatui Village in the Sipi Falls region of Eastern Uganda, and after a very chaotic start to 2021, we’re excited to have two coffees from Sipi Falls back in the roast lineup!
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 sweet goodness in both its washed and natural coffees.
For Huck’s washed process lots, we do step away from Sipi Fass Wet Mill’s usual m.o. 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. They just taste better, in our opinion.
These washed, extended fermentation coffees bridge a divide between super zippy coffees from Kenya and more approachable offerings from Latin America, bringing some of the best of both to the cup. This year’s washed Sipi Falls is no differente, with balanced apricot-like fruitiness, butterscotch-like sweetness, and subtle tangerine acidity to round out the cup. Hella tasty. A bit approachable and a bit adventurous at the same time.
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This year we’ve waited on our Sipi Falls coffees a bit longer than usual, thanks to chaotic and violent politics in Uganda. The country had a presidential election just as our coffees should have left the country, and after the sitting president declared victory over his opponent and protests erupted, he shut down the country and began to jail members of the opposition, or worse. We’re not in a place to pontificate on Ugandan politics, nor are we sure how this year’s crop of Sipi Falls fits into that picture, but we couldn’t happily release a Ugandan coffee without mentioning the country’s turmoil.
We would highly suggest listening to The Messenger podcast to learn a bit about this most recent Ugandan election. And if you have any insights or thoughts on how we might better consider the country’s political situation in our coffee buying, please get in touch.
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