This year, I'm doing something a little different: I'll be buying very small amounts of very special coffees, 20-50lbs, and selling them here as limited release coffees. I'll be rotating coffees through very quickly, I doubt most will last more than a week, so if something piques your interest, grab it quick! Since these are VERY limited amounts: in the off chance I run out of one Limited Release, you will be sent the next one up. Sold in 1lb increments.

New Kenya Washed Ngomano Factory!

Kenya is a powerhouse of coffee; the high altitude, climate, volcanic soil, and abundance of fresh, clean water position it ideally for coffee growing. Coffee runs in families for generations, and they take pride in some of the most meticulous processing on the planet, collectively. Ngomano Factory is the sole washing station at the Ngomano Farmer Cooperative Society, which provides benefits to members, which are usually provided by 3rd parties at a higher price. Interestingly, the region this coffee comes from can produce a secondary crop, hence this fresh-crop Kenya in the off season.

This coffee showcases what Kenya is famous for: a combination of sweet and savory, with fruit, spice, and vegetal notes. Sweet persimmon and kumquat balanced by sweet juicy stewed tomato; clove and cinnamon countered by saffron; caramel and brown butter depth and sweetness countered by Meyer lemon and black tea. There is depth and complexity here that will keep you on your toes, and it's supremely easy to brew, any way you like your coffee. 

New Panama Elida Estate Natural! Sold Out!

Well, not 'new': we featured this coffee last November. A customer was so enamored with this coffee that he asked me to source some more for him, so I decided to grab a very limited amount beyond his needs to offer to anyone else who wanted to revisit it! After all, this is from the world record holding Elida Estate, one of the first to grow Gesha coffee, and holding the auction record at $13,518/kg for a 3kg lot, as well as being the highest altitude farm in Panama, located in part in a World Heritage Site. You can get a picture of how good Elida Estate coffee is for a far more reasonable price here: 72% Valrhona Chocolate, ripe plum, blueberry, sweet peach, and hibiscus, a sweet and balanced cup that's excellent for pourover and drip, and will make for a wild espresso!

New El Salvador Aida Batlle Natural! Sold Out!

The legend returns! We featured this coffee in January '25, and I'm super stoked to feature it again.

In 2003, an unknown female producer came out of nowhere and swept to first place in the Cup of Excellence competition, selling for a record $14/lb. It was astonishing on all counts. How did this happen?

Aida was born in El Salvador, but raised in the US to escape the violence. At the age of 28, she returned to help on the families coffee farm that went back 5 generations. Most coffee from the farm was allocated to a particular buyer, but she was able to experiment with their highest plot of land, Finca Kilamanjaro. Utilizing knowledge she had gained in the US about sustainable food, she switch from commodity coffee practices to something more like organic farming. She began experimenting with the stellar coffee strains of Kenya, namely SL28 and SL34, and the combination of cultivar and terroir shocked the coffee world, winning the CoE. 

Since then, she has been manipulating the variables of cultivar, terroir, picking, and processing to create astonishing, yet supremely delicious coffee. Her hand is involved in every step, every year, from start to finish, and she simply does not rest, constantly pushing her crop forward. She has been a Specialty Coffee Association director, her coffee has been featured in numerous barista championships globally, including the World Barista Championship and World Brewers Cup, and she also posts and interacts occasionally on coffee forums. Relatively recently she started selling her coffee direct, in small enough amounts for me, so here we are, and I'm SO happy to feature her coffee. Yes, it's expensive: welcome to coffee without compromise.

In the cup, fruity intensity is at the fore, with ripe bing cherry and blueberry splitting the berry duties equally, juicy citrus pomello notes, something akin to effervescent dessert white wine, all supported by sweet, creamy, fruity valrhona dark chocolate, deep molasses, almond roca, and ethereal allspice and sage.