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, Ethiopia Banko Dhadato 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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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 Fazenda Sao Benedito Natural and a washed coffee from smallholder farmers in the La Coipa area of Peru's San Ignacio province.
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Burundi Gitwe Washed: March Coffee of the Month
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Long Miles Coffee Project is back for year 7, and Gitwe Washed is our March Coffee of the Month!
It kinda makes us feel old to say it, but this is the seventh 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 these coffees every winter.
This year was a particularly challenging harvest, both for Long Miles and the entire country of Burundi. Across Burundi, due to extreme rain and a myriad of other factors, coffee production was down to just 22% of a normal, good harvest. In a poor country like Burundi, losing that much of their main cash crop is crippling. We’re happy to continue supporting the farmers of Long Miles, and this year more than ever, feel lucky to have a bit of this delicious coffee in the Huck lineup.
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 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. This year, quantities were limited, and we weren’t able to taste or offer the same variety of coffee that we’re used to from Long Miles. Still, the coffees we tasted from Gitwe were delicious, and we were excited to pick one washed and one natural from the growers on that hill. This washed coffee pops with the apricot, and candied citrus we’ve come to love from Gitwe, balanced with buttery shortbread-like sweetness. It’s sweet, it’s complex, and we think it’s hella delicious.
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Burundi Heza Natural
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This is Huckleberry's seventh (!) year working with the Long Miles Coffee Project in the Muramvya province of 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 on Mikuba and Gitwe hills.
This year was a particularly challenging harvest, both for Long Miles and the entire country of Burundi. Across Burundi, due to extreme rain and a myriad of other factors, coffee production was down to just 22% of a normal, good harvest. In a poor country like Burundi (which already has some of the lowest coffee production per tree in the industry) losing that much of their main cash crop is crippling. We’re happy to continue supporting the farmers of Long Miles, and this year more than ever, feel lucky to have a bit of this delicious coffee in the Huck lineup.
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 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.
In years past, we’ve purchased hill-specific lots from Gitwe or Ninga, but this year, due to the difficult harvest, Long Miles wasn’t able to produce as much natural as they normally would. This lot, processed at Long Miles’ Heza washing station, is comprised of three day lots, primarily from Gitwe hill farmers, but with a small amount of coffee from neighboring Mikuba hill.
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, honeycomb, and bubblegum flavors to complement the fruit-forward strawberry and grape jelly sweetness.
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