Uganda Sipi Falls Natural
$ 21.00
2024 marks Huck's seventh 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 7 of Sipi, year 6 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 concord grape and berries, rounded out with bittersweet chocolate for a helluva 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. ***
Images courtesy Atlantic Specialty Coffee
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Colombia Dario Rodriguez
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Dario Rodriguez is back in the Huck lineup, and while his Pink Bourbon variety is an extra-special treat, we’re also roasting up some of his more “normal” coffee and slinging it in slightly less-fancy packaging. Hard air quotes around that “normal” though, because Dario’s other coffee is also delicious!
We’ve been buying coffee from the Desarollo Growers Association for years now, and two years back, our head roaster Shelby singled out Dario Rodriguez and his pink bourbon variety for special release. For the second year running, we went all-in on Dario, and are roasting up not just his extra-special pink stuff, but also his very tasty, “normal” coffee. It’s a touch less in-your-face, but still bright, sweet, and super enjoyable.
In a world where mono-cropping has taken over much of the Colombian mountainsides, Dario aims to create an old-world farm with organic and sustainable practices. While his main source of income is his coffee, Dario has only planted 11 of his 16 hectares with coffee trees. Why, you ask? Because Dario knows that the key to long-term success is biodiversity. Mono-cropping (planting only one type of crop in an area) can easily destroy a delicate ecosystem, cause major erosion and kill the nutrient rich soil.
From macro to micro, Dario has his operation molded into a symbiotic ecosystem. The ash from his stove and the scraps from his kitchen go into his compost. His chickens eat the fallen, overripe cherries off of the ground to control the insects, and they, in turn, fertilize the soil. The shade crops he planted exist to draw the right kind of wildlife, enticing the indigenous species back to the land, creating the bustling environment needed for truly phenomenal coffee. Not much happens by accident on Dario's farm, and that intention is something that we can taste in the cup.
Dario’s “normcore” coffee - primarily, but probably not only Colombia variety - combines bright fruit with more traditional and expected Latin American sweetness. We’re tasting molasses, boysenberry, and blood orange here, and this one’s coming in a full 12 oz bag.
*** 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. ***
Ethiopia Danche Natural
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Natural Ethiopia is back in the Huck lineup, and we’re kicking things off with this juicy and complex fruitbomb from the village of Worka Chelbesa and Danche Washing Station! Sweet, juicy berry flavors are the main attraction here, and they’re complemented by some delicious florals and citrus.
SNAP Specialty Coffees has impressed us quite a bit over the last few years. They’ve exported and dry milled some of our favorite coffees from the Guji Zone, but also own a few washing stations throughout Ethiopia. This is the second year we'll be showcasing coffees from their stations in Worka Chelbesa. Worka Chelbesa is the highest kebele (village) in the Gedeb municipality, and Gedeb is well-known for producing some of the best coffees in Ethiopia's famous Yirgacheffe region.
Several years ago, SNAP built its first washing in Worka Chelbesa, and named it after the town. After a few seasons with one station, Snap decided to build a second, newer station, closer to some of the more remote farmers, and named it Danche. This year we'll have two delicious coffees from Danche - this full natural fruitbomb and the return of last year's all-star, the experimental washed lot named after station manager Marcelo.
Berries, tropical fruit, jammy goodness, with a touch of florality and citrus to mix things up. This one’s for all you fruity coffee lovers out there - we hope you enjoy this one as much as we do.
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*washing station photos courtesy Snap Coffees.
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India Ratnagiri
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Last year marked our first foray into Indian coffee, and we're back for round two!
While coffees from India are a relative rarity on US specialty roasters' menus, coffee in India has a storied history, tracing back further than any country besides Ethiopia and Yemen. Indian coffee dates to the late 1600s when, according to legend, a Sufi pilgrim named Baba Budan smuggled coffee seeds from the Arabian Peninsula, planting them in the Western Ghat mountain range.
Despite the long history, we haven't always associated Indian coffees with the qualities we seek out at Huck, and we had steered clear of coffees from mainland Asia until last year. Over the past few years though, producers in India, China, and Myanmar, to name a few countries, have raised the bar for specialty coffee in Asia, and we've had to reconsider our preconceived notions. Gundhikan and Ratnagiri Estates are among the producers that have forced us to open our minds to coffees from mainland Asia, and both happen to lie in Chikmagalur, India, the same region where Baba Budan purportedly planted his smuggled seeds.
Ashok and Divya Patre are 3rd-generation coffee and pepper farmers, and for the past decade or so, the family has focused on innovative processing techniques and equipment to push flavor potential at Ratnagiri Estate. In this case, Ratnagiri produced a traditional washed coffee, and the result is a clean, approachable window into Indian coffee, without too much processing intervention. With notes of walnut, graham cracker + cocoa, spice, and baked, our second year of Ratnagiri is low acidity, milk-friendly, and easy-drinking.
*** 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: Ashok + Divya Patre at Ratnagiri Estate, courtesy Osito Coffee.
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