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 On the Porch
Deft Coffee offers a delivery subscription so you can regularly receive fresh roasted whole bean coffees to your doorstep or office. I purchase small quantities of exceptional and unique seasonal coffees, choosing to support growers who follow sustainable, ethical farming and employment practices. Each delivery will be a rotating selection from these coffees. Periodically, I will send out an email with new coffee descriptions, and anything else of interest.
Here’s how it works.
Coffee Delivery Subscriptions are now available and include delivery every or every other week. Just fill out and email this form to coffee@deftcoffee.com or print it and mail it in to the address listed on the order form. My roast schedule is every Sunday, and we ship and deliver on Mondays. Local subscribers within a 3 mile radius of our roastery receive free bike delivery directly to your home or office. Payments can be made by cash or checks made payable to Deft Coffee Roasters.
These are the current coffees for delivery. (A lot of these are sold out… so look for a few new coffees in the next couple weeks):
SOLD OUT: Haile Selassie’Maduro’ from Guji, Sidamo, Ethiopia.
Clear fresh, ripe blueberries and complex fruits adorn a solid base of aromatic cocao. The flavors in this coffee just sing… it’s complex, satisfying and balanced with a fall/winter sort of nourishing richness to the fruit – deeply sweet. Buttermilk bready and ripe blueberries… or huckleberries, rather.
SOLD OUT – Maria Zelaya Aguirre. Hacienda Carmona Pulcal from Antigua, Guatemala
Clean, and not overly complex and comforting. It has a real nice, round, mellow chocolate with hazelnut tones that moves forward over grapefruited citrus while your coffee cools a bit. The sweetness isn’t what I’d call profound, though it’s raw and agave character does creep up on you as well, finally leaving you with an effervescent, lingering sense of strawberries in chocolate.
SOLD OUT: Duhingekawa Women’s Coop from Rushahsi Rwanda
Here is one of those seasonally appropriate coffees, perfect as sun begins creeping around the clouds… earlier and earlier till you’re actually waking up sun sunlight. A touch of moist chill hangs still, but it’s a hopeful moment, where the comfort in the evenness of pralines and hazelnut flavors balance almost exactly with the highly structured, acidulous, tart-like sweetness. Jazz apples at their peak. White Peaches. This isn’t a dance of complexity, but rather a perfect arrangement of what is great about having both natures in a coffee. It wakes you up gently, but with purpose. And that’s what I am loving about this coffee. It’s gentle, exacting. An easy-going perfectionist.
SOLD OUT – (Aged) Peaberry ’07 Crop from Lintong, Sumatra
This’ll lower you into the soil, and wrap you with loamy goodness. Carefully stored for the past 3 years to develop a pretty unique coffee, it’s earthy, deeply peppered with woody cardamon, burnt caramel and brown sugar. It’s intense and lovely all at the same time. Aged coffees are a treat for me that hasn’t been much available for several years and am pretty excited about this little bit. Quite a treat for those who love the deeper, richer coffees. And make sure that you allow this one to sit for 3-4 days before brewing. Like espresso, it needs it to settle the flavors.
*Limited availability
Maximino Gutierrez’ Finca Florestales from Tolima, Columbia
For years, I’ve cupped past Columbian coffees – not because they haven’t been good, some have been excellent, but because I only keep a relatively small selection of coffees at any one time and they have lacked a distinguishing quality that separated them from the other good and excellent coffees. So I bought other coffees.
But this one, grown by Maximino Gutierrez, is different than that. Possibly because it so cleanly caught my memory of first drinking good coffee. There’s a peculiar, subtle coffee-ness in it that encourages its flavors gently on the palete. Nuts – pistachio in particular – bring a buttery sweetness, tentatively salty, floated by sweet rose aromatics. This isn’t the more boastfully acidulous and structured coffees that I normally gravitate towards, but more like a gracefully balanced Rwandan.
SOLD OUT – Oscar and Olga Mendez’ Finca Genesis from Lourdes de Naranjo, Costa Rica
Crisp, clear jasmine and cane sugar aromatics dart among light nuts and sunflower seeds. Slight bodied, with a gentle, but substantial finish. The structure is a bit like what I imagine something built by a group of Dozers would tast like: crisp, ordered, layered, almost airy, but sweet and compelling; a crisp, spiny, fruity tang that sits neatly within the basic structure. Brisk apple (braeburn, fuji) and grape skin.
Dave Ewald
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