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Blue Orchid Blend

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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 Sitio Santo Antonio and Peru Aldea Laurel.

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Brazil Sitio Santo Antonio

$ 19.00

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Brazil! As a single origin!

Feels kinda strange to say that, to be honest. Brazil is the world's biggest coffee producer by a longshot, and while it's always played a role at Huckleberry, it's usually been a utilitarian one. With relatively low altitudes and a coffee industry that prioritizes productivity over cup quality, your stereotypical Brazil - if it's a good one - is low in acidity and overall pretty mellow in flavor. And while some of the farmers are undoubtedly great people, Brazil's coffee industry is steeped in its colonial past, dominated by huge farms, owned primarily by families of European descent.

Not necessarily the type of coffee we usually seek out for single origin, but good, basic Brazils have always formed an important building block in Blue Orchid, Sound and Vision, and cold brew.

This year though, we're offering two Brazils we think rise way above the tide in the country, and can thank Phyllis Johnson and Miriam Aguiar for bringing these to our attention and raising the bar for Brazil. Phyllis owns BD Imports in the US, and has been one of the major forces pushing for increased diversity in the coffee industry. And Miriam runs Apara Coffees, an exporter focused on developing coffee and sustainable practices at smaller farms in the Minas Gerais region in Brazil. Together, they've been working to highlight female and black Brazilians in coffee, and have given us the chance to taste and roast some wonderful coffees. More often than not, these gems would have been blended into large, untraceable, regional lots.

Sitio Santo Antonio is the more comforting of the two Brazilian coffees we're highlighting this year, and comes to us from the Peixoto family. The Peixotos are a group of 6 brothers plus their extended families, who started their coffee journey as sharecroppers - a common role in the industry for black Brazilians. Over the years, they saved up enough money to collectively buy 44 hectares of land, becoming one of the few families in the country to work their way up from sharecropping to farm ownership.

From the start, the Peixotos have focused on quality, separating their coffee by variety, and building a cupping lab on their farm to hone in on best farming and processing practices. We're lucky to roast this Yellow Catucaí lot as a single origin coffee, and are also featuring a few other coffees from the farm in our blends.

This coffee is just sweet and pleasant. Milk chocolate and graham cracker are the main flavors, backed up with a pleasant nuttiness, a hint of red pear fruitiness, and a tiny bit of florality. Drink your coffee with milk? This'll pair great. Drink it straight, and it'll be a sweet, unassuming, but rewarding cup. It'll also work great as a single origin espresso.

For the first time, we're truly excited about coffees from Brazil, and are excited to partner with Phyllis and Miriam to highlight a more diverse group of farmers. We haven't been super enthused about Brazil in the past, but are thankful to be proven wrong, in the best way possible.

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Photos courtesy Isabela Lobato and BD Imports

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Burundi Gitwe Honey

$ 22.00

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It kinda makes us feel old to say it, but this is the eighth year in a row that Huckleberry has roasted coffees from the Long Miles Coffee Project in Burundi. We’ve been with Long Miles since their first harvest in 2013, and look forward to new and innovative coffee from the group every year!

In that spirit, this is our first honey-processed coffee from Long Miles! Honey-processed coffees lie somewhere between a washed- and natural-process coffee. The outer layer of the coffee is removed (depulped), but rather than washing off the sticky fruit on the outside of the bean, the coffee is dried with this sticky layer, often called either mucilage or honey, still on the seed. In this case, Long Miles added a bit of experimental fermentation between depulping and drying, and the result is bright, juicy, and complex.

The Long Miles Coffee Project was founded by Ben and Kristy Carlson, an American couple living in Burundi. Upon seeing the difficulties farmers faced while Ben was working as a coffee trader, the Carlsons built two washing stations in the region, and have worked with area farmers to help them fetch better prices.

By working with the farmers to develop stringent quality practices at the farm level, then washing and milling the coffee with meticulous care, Long Miles is able to ensure that the coffee is of the highest quality possible. By working with Huckleberry and other roasters who commit to coffees before they've shipped from Burundi, the Long Miles Coffee Project is able to pay the farmers a higher price for their coffee than they would receive on the open market and from other washing stations.

Gitwe is a specific hill near Long Miles' Heza washing station, and this coffee comes exclusively from the Long Miles farmers living on that hill. Over the past few years, Gitwe has produced some of our favorite coffees - natural, washed, and now honey alike.

Gitwe Honey is bright, sweet, fruity, and complex - we're tasting cantaloupe melon, shortbread cookie, dried mango, and sweet honey in our mugs!

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Photo of Gitwe Hill courtesy Long Miles Coffee Project.

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Burundi Heza Natural

$ 23.00

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This is Huckleberry's eighth (!) year working with the Long Miles Coffee Project in Burundi, and our fifth year roasting the lovely natural-processed fruitbombs from the group. Heza - a beautiful place in Kirundi - is one of Long Miles’ two washing stations, and this awesome natural comes from farmers participating in Long Miles' Farmer Field School Program.

The Long Miles Coffee Project was founded by Ben and Kristy Carlson, an American couple living in Burundi. Upon seeing the difficulties Muramvya farmers faced while Ben was working as a coffee trader, the Carlsons built two washing stations in the region, and have worked with local farmers to help them fetch better prices.

By working with the farmers to develop stringent quality practices at the farm level, then processing and milling the coffee with meticulous care, Long Miles is able to ensure that the coffee is of the highest quality possible. By working with Huckleberry and other roasters who commit to coffees before they've shipped from Burundi, the Long Miles Coffee Project is able to pay the farmers a higher price for their coffee than they would receive on the open market and from other washing stations.

A few years ago, Long Miles implemented a farmer education and outreach program for the group's most-engaged producers it calls the Farmer Field School. This is the first year Long Miles has separated out the FFS coffees from other farmers, and this natural - from FFS members near Heza Washing Station - is dope!

Heza Nat bursts with the juicy strawberry we've come to expect from the best Ethiopian naturals, but with a bit more concord grape and some of the hallmarks of our favorite washed Burundis. We taste a bit of sweet-savory complexity, honey, and shortbread to complement the fruit-forward strawberry and grape jelly sweetness.

*** for roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions ***

Heza Washing Station photos courtesy Long Miles Coffee Project.

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