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India’s been producing coffee longer than any country besides Ethiopia and Yemen, but this is HUCK’s first go at roasting coffee from the world’s most populous country!
Hulikere is one of three Indian coffees we’re roasting this year, and while we’re saving the other two more-exotic offerings for special release, this honey-processed coffee is sweet, balanced, and approachable.
The Indian coffee industry is largely based around the Robusta coffee species, and is perhaps best-known for the Monsoon Malabar process. While we’re not completely close-minded about Robusta, it’s a different species than Arabica, and we haven’t found one that tastes good enough for us to roast, at least so far. And Monsoon Malabar is a process of intentionally aging coffee in a humid environment. It’s an acquired taste, to put it politely, and it’s a taste we’re not planning on acquiring.
That being said, there are plenty of producers producing - and pushing - specialty Arabica coffee in India, including Shreedev Hulikere, his family farm Hulikere Estate, and their environmentally-focused producer group, KaadKaapi. KaadKaapi is a group that uses specialty coffee production as both an income source and land use to protect animal habitats and migration corridors that might otherwise be jeopardized by development or clear-cut agriculture. Hulikere and the other farms in KaadKaapi sacrifice productivity for extremely dense shade cover, an occasional elephant-trampled coffee shrub or two, and it’s not uncommon to see tigers or their prey amongst the coffee trees.
While most of the credit undoubtedly goes to Hulikere and the growers in India themselves, kudos to David Stallings and the team at Osito Coffee, too. Without David’s interest in seeking out Indian coffee, getting to know the producers over the years, and importing their first Indian coffees to the US this year, we definitely would not have tasted these coffees and been able to roast them here at Huck.
As far as Hulikere goes, sweetness, approachability, and low acidity are the name of the game in this honey-processed coffee. We definitely skew towards some fruitiness and brightness in even our more approachable offerings, so if you’re looking for something a bit different than typical Huck, this will be our least fruity and least acidic coffee this year. We’ll roast up some brightness and berries in other Indias, but we’re tasting just a hint of raisin in Hulikere, with cocoa powder, almond, and honey graham front and center.
*** 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. ***
Photos of Shreedev Hulikere and Hulikere Estate courtesy David Stallings, Osito Coffee.
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Gettin' wild, but without gettin' too funky. We're kicking off 2023 Ethiopias at Huck with something a bit different from our friends at Snap!
Ethiopia's the birthplace of coffee, with unparalleled genetic diversity, plus unique terroir and processing that can produce super floral, citric washed coffees and the cleanest, juiciest, most berry- and tropical-forward naturals. We look forward to these coffees every year, and we're still looking forward to adding those to the roast lineup!
And Snap Coffees, a quality-focused exporter and washing station operator, has been a longtime partner for us at Huck. We've featured coffees from Snap's two washing stations in the kebele of Worka Chelbesa - the eponymous Worka Chelbesa station, plus the newer Danche station - for most of the last 5+ years, and coffees from within the Snap network often make up at least some, and sometimes all, of our flagship Phantom Limb Blend.
Over the past couple years, Snap has given its washing station managers the opportunity to experiment a bit with processing, and deviate a bit from the traditional washed and natural profiles. In this case Marcelo, one of the employees at Danche, pioneered a weird take on the washed process, keeping the coffee in-cherry, but in a sealed, cool environment, for 5 full days before undergoing a more typical washed process. Risky, but it works.
Earlier this year, we spent some time with Snap in Addis Adaba, tasting dozens of coffees from throughout their network. When we came across this one, it was "wow, wtf is this Amanuel?, we gotta have it" at first sip. And we were tasting samples blind, so even better that it came from a station we've bought from for years.
This one's combines what we love in both the best washed and natural Ethiopias - citrus and florality, plus bigger fruit and body - without some some of the funky wine, pushing vinegar, that we sometimes taste in super-long fermentations. We're tasting bright and juicy berry lemonade, honey, watermelon, and lavender florals in this banger - not our typical start to Ethiopia season, but we're very much into it!
*** 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. ***
*washing station photos courtesy Snap Coffees.
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Kenya is back in the Huck lineup, and we're kicking things off with our second year of juicy and complex coffee from Mungaria Factory and Aguthi Cooperative in Nyeri!
Aguthi Farmers Cooperative Society is a union of cooperatives in Kenya's famed Nyeri county, and Mungaria is one of the factories that make up the larger group. In Kenya coffee-speak, a factory is a local cooperative based around a single washing station, and these factories typically organize themselves into larger farmers cooperative societies (FCS) for export efficiencies, farmer trainings, financing, etc. All in all, 219 farmers deliver their coffee to Mungaria, where it is washed using a single fermentation, and dried slowly on raised beds, without a post-wash soak.
This is Huck’s second year roasting coffee from Aguthi Society and Mungaria factory, both are part of the larger Kenyan Cooperative Coffee Exporters (KCCE) network. The Kenyan coffee industry tends to be dominated by a few foreign-owned businesses, and KCCE is a collective of cooperative societies that market and export their coffee together, to keep a bit more of the benefits within Kenya. This year we were lucky enough to spend a bit of time at Mungaria and chat with factory manager Pharis Kibilenge and Robert Ndurio.
Mungaria is one of the less-established factories in the larger KCCE network, but Robert is well-known for overseeing amazing coffees, most famously at fellow Aguthi factory, Thageini. It’s no coincidence that Mungaria has been among our favorite Kenyas for the second year running.
This coffee is hella juicy, hella sweet, and deliciously complex, like all our favorite Kenyas. We're tasting tangy red currant and key lime, subtly-spiced molasses, and juicy stone fruit. It’s a great start to the 2023 Kenya season!
*** 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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1. Robert Ndurio, Aguthi FCS Processing Manager
2. Mungaria President Pharis Kibilenge, Mungaria Controller Bernard Waigwa, Robert Ndurio
3. Mungaria Factory, courtesy Samuel Njeru, Kenya Cooperative Coffee Exporters
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2023 marks Huck's sixth harvest roasting coffee from farmers in Gamatui Village and the Sipi Falls Wet Mill, and we’re stoked for another year with two Sipis 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 Falls 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 homed 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 different, with cantaloupe melon fruitiness, sugar cookie-like sweetness, and balanced tangerine acidity to add some brightness to the cup. Hella tasty that’s a bit approachable and a bit adventurous at the same time.
*** 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. ***
Images courtesy Atlantic Specialty Coffee
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2023 marks Huck's sixth harvest roasting coffee from farmers in Gamatui Village in the Sipi Falls region of Eastern Uganda, and we’re excited to have this natural and a washed Sipi Falls back in the roast lineup!
Year 6 of Sipi, year 5 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, most famous in Kenya), 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 the continual improvements in Ugandan coffee, but more importantly, we’re just stoked to have this coffee in our mugs. Sipi Falls Natural packs wild fruit flavors of grape bubblegum and strawberry jam, rounded out with maple syrup sweetness and a juicy body.
*** 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. ***
images courtesy Atlantic Specialty Coffee
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Monte de Oro is back with the sweetness, adding a punch of natural-process fruitiness to our Central American coffees.
Finca Monte de Oro is Huck's other Guatemala sourcing relationship, and while we do put a lot of focus on the AProCafé Association, there's no shortage of other great coffee in the country. We started sourcing coffee from Mario 7 years ago after being introduced by a mutual friend, and from day one his innovative approach to processing has set his coffees apart.
Mario has traditionally produced both honey-processed and natural coffees, and until two years ago, we had always roasted either the honey process or a blend of natural and honey together. Over the past couple years though, due to some weird climatic variances towards the end of the 2022 harvest period,and the fact that honeys are just very labor-intensive, the farm has decided to focus its efforts on the full natural process. The coffee’s delicious, and we’re on board.
A big shoutout to Mario for experimenting and sharing knowledge with us on his farm. Mario and his team at Monte de Oro sweat all the details when it comes to picking, fermenting, and drying his coffee, and they’ve been happy to share the details with us. We in turn have shared some of that knowledge with other partners like AProCafé, so Mario’s coffee isn’t just excellent, but it helps create a rising tide for all the coffee we buy and roast from Guatemala.
2023 Monte de Oro is big, sweet, fruity, and balanced, all at the same time. We’re tasting jammy red grape, citrus, and chocolate cake in this year's crop, and are stoked to have the goods from Mario back at our roastery
*** 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: Leonel Montufar, Mario Alarcon, Freddy Alquijay, and Otto Montufar; Diana Alarcon
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Central America season is starting to swing at Huck, and Mazateca is back and joining the fold!
This year's Mazateca is balanced and sweet, with fresh fig fruitiness, pastry and dulce de leche sweetness, blood orange-like brightness, and a creamy body. Definitely a great, traditional coffee to pair with milk, but also plenty of complexity for those of us who like to drink it black.
Despite being one of the more economically-developed countries in Latin America and having some amazing coffee-growing terrain, Mexico is a tough place to source excellent coffee. In powerhouses like Colombia, Brazil, Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Kenya, the government often takes a keen interest in developing the coffee sector. In Mexico, there's little to no government-involvement, so producers have little access to agronomic training and little support getting to market, despite having amazing potential.
Moreover, Oaxaca's Sierra Mazateca is one of the more remote coffee-growing regions of the world, and far from an easy place to work. Spanish takes a back seat to Mayan dialects, and while the coffees can be exceptional, small farms often produce so little coffee that it's hard to justify exporting. Luckily, Frida Mendoza, her company Terra Coffeas, and our import partners Osito Coffee put in the work, traveling to meet smallholder farmers and building great-tasting coffees from multiple tiny, tiny nanolots. Our coffee comes from several of these smaller farms in the Sierra Mazateca.
Creamy, sweet, and approachable, with brightness and fig-like fruitiness to keep things lively, this is a great option for folks who love easy-drinking Latin American coffee!
*** 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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Santa Maria is back, and we're excited to have both Cooperativa de Caficultores de Dota (CoopeDota) specifically, and Central American coffees generally, back in the roastery! 2023 is the seventh harvest roasting up tasty goodness from CoopeDota and farmers in the village of Santa Maria, and this year's Santa Maria is among the best we've roasted.
We're always excited to roast the goods from CoopeDota because the coffee is tasty, and 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. 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.
2023 Santa Maria has a lot going for it - milk-friendly hazelnut and pie crust flavors, balanced green apple and citrus brightness, and a touch of stone fruit. It's a crowd-pleaser, perfect for kicking off the long-awaited Central season here at Huck!
*** 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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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 Guatemala Aprocafé Atitlán Association.
*** 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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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 Cotrim e D'Allesandro, 50% Guatemala Aprocafé Atitlán Association, 10% Uganda Sipi Falls 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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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 Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua.
*** 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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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 Chelbesa Kubi, Uganda Sipi Falls 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.
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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!
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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 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!
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Y'all, our friends at Swift Cup have done it yet again!
We've got a couple of new instant brews coming your way, both single origin (which is mighty coooollll), so you can continue getting out there this fall – hiking, biking, camping, or simply wandering through yellowing trees with great coffee in hand!
The folks at Swift Cup Coffee are masters in making a great brew mighty quick, which is something we can get behind. They’ve 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 – cheers to that!
This natural Uganda Sipi Falls is packed with grape bubblegum and maple syrup to balance it all out.
You can mix this 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, wherever you may be heading!
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Y'all, our friends at Swift Cup should be royalty at this point! We're back with another new instant, this time from Costa Rica, so you can continue getting out there this fall – hiking, biking, camping, or simply wandering through the streets of your city enjoying some brisk morning air!
Swift Cup Coffee are masters in making a great brew mighty quick, which is something we can get behind. They’ve delivered yet another tasty batch of instant coffee for our customers on the go, whether that be into the office or onto a plane. Good coffee is no longer relegated to the coffee shop or your home set-up – cheers to that!
Coming from Costa Rica, Santa Maria is balanced and delish, with notes of milk-friendly hazelnut and pie crust, as well as green apple, citrus brightness, and a dash of stone fruit!
You can mix this packet/sachet with 10-12oz HOT/COLD water, HOT/COLD milk, hot cocoa or anything else you like!
The packaging is fully compostable, but please, be responsible and pack it in, pack it out, wherever you may be heading!
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