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 Pocos de Caldas, 50% Guatemala CODECH, 10% Ethiopia Guji Mormora Natural
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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 Pocos de Caldas and a washed coffee from the CODECH cooperative in Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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Coffee of the Month: Kenya Karuthi
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Juicy goodness from Kenya on sale for October!
There's no denying it - we're suckers for juicy, bright, and fruit-forward coffees. So, we always look forward to new coffees from Kenya, and our second Kenya of the year, Karuthi, is a banger. Berry lemonade, white grape, and sugarplum flavors in a bright, full-bodied cup.
We were lucky enough to spend some time at the Karuthi factory and at the Othaya Cooperative’s cupping lab and dry mill this January, and we’re pleased to offer two coffees from Othaya this year (we’re following Karuthi with a peaberry from Gatuyaini Factory). Othaya Farmers Cooperative Society is a group of approximately 10,000 coffee growers in Nyeri County, who deliver their coffee to 17 different factories, or wet mills. 378 of these farmers bring coffee to the cooperative's Karuthi factory, where it is washed in the traditional Kenyan style, and dried slowly on raised beds.
We’re psyched on Othaya in large part because the society also manages its own dry milling and quality control. While many other factories deliver their coffee to foreign-owned dry mills, Othaya has its own cupping lab and dry mill in Nyeri, so the factories get feedback and have a bit more control over whether their coffees are sold directly to buyers like Huck, or go to auction. Everyone we met at Othaya was great, but it's worth saying that David, who runs the Othaya lab and mill, is the man. Furthermore, Othaya and a few other Cooperative Societies export their coffee collectively as Kenyan Cooperative Coffee Exporters. Kenyan owned, Kenyan operated. And the coffee’s delicious.
This is easily one of the most interesting and complex coffees in our lineup - we taste the juicy citrus pop we've come to expect from the best Kenyans, deep sugary sweetness, and loads of fruit, especially blackberry, plum and white grape. We’re hyped on our second Kenya of the year and our first of two from the Othaya Farmers Cooperative Society.
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Costa Rica El Cedral Natural
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Mmmm...jelly donuts. That's what we think when we taste El Cedral, and we’re hyped to have it back in the lineup.
Three years running, we've chosen El Cedral as our top natural processed coffee from Central America, and it continues to impress. From our first taste of this harvest three years ago to this year, El Cedral has proved itself a stunner, and was once again one of our favorite coffees during our most recent adventure to Costa Rica.
El Cedral 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--achieving this through sustainable practices and purchasing carbon certificates.
In contrast to our other CoopeDota coffee, Santa Maria, which is grown on multiple smallholder farms, El Cedral is a single farmed, collectively owned by all of CoopeDota, that operates as an experimental model farm to help individual farmers learn better growing and processing practices. The naturals from El Cedral have impressed us every year since our first visit in 2017.
If you've loved Huck’s naturals, we'd suggest brewing up a bit of this gem. El Cedral's got the clean berry flavors we've come to expect from the best African naturals, plus some of the richer pastry-like backbone we love in washed Central American coffees. We're calling that combo of flavors jelly donut, walnut, berries and generally delicious.
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