Phantom Limb Blend
$ 17.00
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.
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. Our very next set of stickers will include a short line explaining just that so stay tuned. 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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August Coffee of the Month: Burundi Colline Ninga
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Colline Ninga is our coffee of the month for August!
This is our fourth year working with the Long Miles Coffee Project in the Muramvya province of Burundi, and we couldn’t be happier to roast Colline Ninga three years running .
Burundi has produced coffee for quite some time, but the country's progression towards producing high quality specialty coffee was interrupted in the 1990s and early 2000s by political unrest and ethnic violence spilling over the border from Rwanda, during and after that country's genocide. Despite this, and the challenges of being a poor, landlocked country, farmers from Burundi are successfully improving their coffee each and every year, and specialty coffee's higher prices seem to have a major impact on quality of life in the country's coffee growing regions. Moreover, we love the flavors of a great coffee from Burundi.
Colline Ninga is grown by small farmers in Bukeye area of the Muramvya province, and produced by the Long Miles Coffee Project. Long Miles is a project founded by Ben Carlson, an American living in Burundi. Ben, upon seeing the difficulties Muramvya farmers faced, built several washing stations in the region, and has 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, ensure that the coffee is of the highest quality possible. By working with Huckleberry and other roasters in advance of the harvest, the Long Miles Coffee Project is able to pay the farmers a higher price for their coffee than they would receive otherwise
Ninga is a specific hillside community (colline is French for hill), and this coffee comes exclusively from the Long Miles farmers living on that hill. After tasting samples from different hills, and different periods of the harvest, Ninga stood out again this year, along with our other offerings from Gitwe.
Colline Ninga has pear and apricot flavors, complemented with red currant and citrusy brightness. It also has a subtle cinnamon-like sweet spiciness, and we like to think of it as a slightly subtler variation of a classic Kenyan flavor profile: bright, slightly savory, and deeply sweet. It's a wonderful coffee, and we're happy to support the great work of the Long Miles Coffee project in the Bukeye area of Burundi. View full product details
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 from Guatemala called Atitlan El Grano.
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Costa Rica El Cedral Natural
$ 23.00
This winter our head of education, David, visited Costa Rica as a supervisor for the Roasters Guild and Barista Guild of America origin trip. He visited dozens of mills and farms, and tasted even more coffees, but El Cedral was the #1 standout coffee for him. So, we agreed to purchase some before David even got back to the USA.
El Cedral is also Huckleberry's first natural-processed single origin coffee we've roasted outside of Africa. We were waiting for a natural that met the same standards we've come to expect from Ethiopia and Burundi, and this one is a banger. We taste strawberry lemonade, pineapple and tropical fruit, and rich almond pastry (David says bearclaw, but we thought that was a bit specific for the bag, and we figure some folks might not know we meant pastry, not animal). El Cedral's got the clean fruit we've come to expect from the best African naturals, plus some of the richer backbone we love in washed Central American coffees.
This is one of two coffees we'll roast this year from CoopeDota, a cooperative of growers based in the Dota cantón of Costa Rica's Central Valley. This cooperative is a leader in Costa Rica's push for sustainable coffee, and was the first carbon neutral coffee producer on the planet. While our other CoopeDota coffee, Santa Maria, was grown on multiple smallholder farms, El Cedral is a single farm, collectively owned by all of CoopeDota, that operates as an experimental model farm to help individual farmers learn better growing and processing practices.
This natural fruitbomb is a gem, and unique for us at Huckleberry. It won't be around long, and if you've loved other naturals like Ardi, Wenago, and Gitwe Natural, we'd suggest brewing up a bit of this before it's gone.
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Costa Rica Santa Maria
$ 17.00
Santa Maria is one of two coffees from the Cooperativa de Caficultores de Dota (CoopeDota) in Costa Rica that Huckleberry will roast this year. While El Cedral Natural is stunning and fruit-forward, Santa Maria is more subtle, but equally delicious. This washed coffee exudes balance while maintaining complexity, and showcases why great washed Central American coffees are among the most versatile and easy to drink. Santa Maria has milk-friendly flavors of walnut and creamy nougat, while also packing plenty of grape-like fruity complexity and orange-like brightness.
Costa Rica has been a global leader in the push for a more sustainable coffee trade, and within Costa Rica, CoopeDota has been a leader among producers. 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. To that aim, while we say that this coffee is washed, it's actually eco-pulped. Most washed coffees use fermentation and a whole lot of water to remove the coffee seed's inner fruit (mucilage) before drying. CoopeDota forgoes the fermentation breakdown of that sugary fruit, and runs its coffee through a machine called an EcoPulper, which uses dramatically less water than traditional washing. All in all, as our head of education David Fasman learned while visiting the cooperative earlier this year, reducing water use throughout the coffee's journey is a point of pride for CoopeDota.
We're super excited to begin showcasing CoopeDota's coffees in 2017 - not just because the cooperative is a leader in sustainable practices, but also because the coffee is damn tasty. Santa Maria has a lot going for it - fruity pop, milk-friendly nuttiness, creamy body and depth. This coffee is going to be a go to for us in the mornings while warming up the roaster, on Fetco at our Pecos St cafe, and makes for a delicious single origin espresso, too.
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