What’s Updog?

Glad you asked! This blend is a shoutout to all the amazing dogs, pets, and animal lovers we serve! $1 from each bag sale will be donated to the Humane Society of the Harrisburg Area! The blend is roasted to a solid city (medium) style and is a blend of Rwanda and Colombia. Notes of mandarin orange, lavender, and butterscotch!

Region: La Loma Del Guamo, Antioquia, Titiribí
Farm: Lotero Cano Family
Importer: Paisa Coffee
Variety: Red & Yellow Castillo
Altitude: >1600masl
Processing Method: Washed
Roast: Cinnamon (Light)
Tasting Notes: Green melon, honey, toasted walnuts

This is another amazing coffee from Paisa Coffee, located in the southwestern Antioquia region of Colombia near the small village of La Loma Del Guamo. This farm has been passed from one generation to the next and has been in operation since 1945. Today, this farm has a plantation of about 12,000 trees and decades of experience in coffee growing. This washed processed coffee is harvested anywhere from the beginning of November to the middle of January, and it is lovingly processed by the Taborda Cortez family. Please try this deliciously clean cup of coffee yourself and see!

This is a direct trade coffee — hit up Andrea Grove for more details on her visit to this farm!

This beautiful and delicious lot from a longstanding partnership between Keffa Coffee and the CV. Kuala Bengi Coffee Cooperative showcases everything a Sumatra coffee should be! This coffee is traditionally wet-hulled and has notes of sugar cookie, dried cherry, toasted almonds, and honey! This single origin features Tim Tim and Borbor varietals of Arabica and is considered a sweeter and lower-acidity coffee. Easier on your stomach, but deliciously full-bodied in flavor. We roast this to a medium roast and recommend you try brewing it through your favorite automatic drip machine!

Country: Rwanda

Region: Western Rwanda

Farm: Gasharu

Importer: Umuko Coffee

Altitude: 1700-2100 masl

Processing Method: Natural

Roast: City

Tasting Notes: gingerbread, apple pie, candy hearts

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Umuko Coffee may be a new company but their legacy is over 43 years in the making. Jean Christophe (Chris) Rusatira’s family has been growing and processing coffee in Rwanda for more than four decades and during that time their profits have remained extremely low, with little to no improvement to the quality of life in the community. Umuko Coffee is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty in coffee farming communities who have long suffered from unfair practices in the industry. Umuko is the Kinyarwandan name for a native East African tree species which held great significance for the people of the region. It is the spirit of sustainability and care that is at the heart of Umuko Coffee’s unique business model. Umuko Coffee gives smallholder coffee farmers and processors like Chris’s family a voice and will ensure transparency and connectivity from cherry to cup.

Photo credit: Umuko Coffee

REGION: Ethiopia Guji

TOWN: Chire Aroresa

ALTITUDE: 1800-1900 M

PROCESS: Washed & Swiss Water Processed (decaffeination processed)

VARIETY: Heirloom

TASTING NOTES: Crisp apple, honey, lemon