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Summer Drink Menu 2026

Summer is in full swing, and so is our seasonal lineup. This year’s menu brings back a mix of familiar favorites and fruity flavors built for warm-weather sipping. Our summer menu is perfect for hot days, slow mornings, and everything in between. Cheers! 🍋🍊🫐🍌🍓

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Nguisse Nare: Sadama, Ethiopia

There are coffees that impress on paper, and then there are coffees that stop you mid-sip. When the latest fresh-crop Ethiopia arrivals came through our friends at Crop to Cup, this lot from Nguisse Nare immediately stood out. Exceptional traceability. A remarkable score. An experimental anaerobic process executed with clear intention. But impressive details only go so far. What mattered most? The cup. And from the very first brew, it absolutely delivered.

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Mastercol: Huila, Colombia

We’re beyond thrilled to share our most exciting Colombia releases to date: Mastercol. This is a small but mighty lot—a natural-processed, single-varietal coffee sourced from just ten smallholder farmers across La Argentina, Oporapa, and San Agustín in Huila. It's a rare find, a dazzling combination of history, technique, and varietal, and we only have a small amount, so consider this your heads-up not to wait on trying this vibrant new coffee.

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Guji: Shakiso, Ethiopia - Natural Process

This is our second offering from our of our favorite subregions of Ethiopia: the Guji zone. This coffee is special to us because it is our very first naturally processed coffee that we’ve had as an offering. We taste honey and concord grape-like sweetness with a subtle blueberry aroma. This coffee is everything we love about deeper, rich Ethiopian coffees. This coffee was also chosen with help from our customers at our first public cupping.

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