Coffee
Holiday Coffee 2024
(Almond, Caramel, Grape, Cherry, Orange)
Region: Caldas, Colombia -Small Growers' Blend
Varietal: Caturra-Castillo
Processing Method: Washed
Wishing you the happiest and merriest holiday from the Cheza Roastworks family! The 2024 Holiday Coffee is a family-grown blend presenting a full body sprinkled with notes of Grape, Almond and Orange. This coffee is bold enough to compliment the celebration of new holiday memories, but also gentle enough to support those times to cherish memories of the past. From our family to yours, please enjoy!
$16 - 16 oz.
$10 - 8 oz.
death : Apocalypse coffee #4
(Blackberry, Jasmine, Raspberry, Almond, Strawberry)
Region: Colombia
Varietal: Wush Wush
Processing Method: Natural
Apocalypse Coffee #4 is back as a Wush Wush varietal! Wush Wush is a low-yield, Ethiopian varietal that cups similar to a Gesha with added Heirloom characteristics from a Yirgacheffe. The will cupping characteristics paired with the listed tasting notes will satisfy even the most savvy coffee explorer!
$18 - 16 oz.
$10 - 8 oz.
Periwinkles
Periwinkles: Elegy of the Invisible
(Peach, Plum, Citrus,Brown Sugar, Spice)
Grown in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, North Kivu, this coffee roast represents a part of the history of Periwinkles:
Many floriculturists of past generations, and even some modern-day floriculturists, held an understanding that most cultures and continents of the world used flowers for decorative and ceremonial practices, except the people of Africa. The common belief was that flowers were tossed aside for the more life-sustaining fruits from the plant. This belief has now been debunked, and the Periwinkle is one of several different flowering plants that re-shaped viewpoints on African floriculture around the turn of the century.
Slaves were given wild, overgrown patches of land, not otherwise suitable for farming or other purposes, for use in burying their dead. There were no headstones or designed grave markers available to them, so enslaved black folks used personal items of the deceased, such as utensils, pots, or tools, to mark graves alongside perennial flowers in line with the traditions they brought from their respective cultures. The Periwinkle was very often used as a grave marker by slaves for this reason. The Periwinkle blooms perennially and was an ingenious way of remembering children, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and other lost loved ones year after year.
Those same Periwinkles are still blooming over those same graves today; a somber poem of struggle, with timbres of strength, hope, perseverance, and endurance. Truly, the Periwinkle is an Elegy of an Invisible people.
“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” -The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952
$16
PRIDE 2024
Pride: Rainbow Static
(Raspberry, Citrus, Plum, Almond, Honey)
Think back to a time when televisions were a box set and not a screen, when your evening sitcom was transmitted through a TV antenna or beamed to a large satellite dish out in the yard, instead of streamed through high-speed internet. Late into the night, transmissions would end with the familiar, monotone drone accompanied by colorful, vertical bars. The night owls still up beyond that were met with Rainbow Static; sometimes with hints of audio and picture attempting to break through at times. Eventually, the signal would reform on the TV set. The movement of Pride draws a parallel in that what a community that "Loves Out Loud" in Unity looks like is becoming more clear each day!
$14 - Limited Stock Remaining
Plague : Apocalypse coffee #1
Plague is back in stock with a new base coffee! This heirloom coffee is grown in the Bombe mountains of Ethiopia at about 2050 MASL. A group of about 600 farmers produced this year's crop of Plague coffee, and it won hands down at the Cheza Roastworks cupping table earlier this year! This is a lightly roasted, sweet, fruit-forward coffee balanced with lots of body. Notes of Peach, Blueberry, Watermelon and Strawberry. Best enjoyed at least 7 days after the printed roast date (aka the "incubation" period).
$17
Famine : Apocalypse coffee #2
This coffee is grown by the Magana-Menendez family in Santa Ana, El Salvador. The farm is named Finca La Esperanza, loosely translated to mean "Farm of Hope," or "Hope Farm," an appropriate name for the coffee selected to represent Famine! Look forward to notes of Cherry and Green Apple with Brown Sugar sweetness and hints of Chocolate. Claim your bag today before the scales are emptied again!
$15
Pretty Good
Grown by several shareholder farms near the snow-capped volcanoes of Huila, Colombia, this coffee boasts a smooth, cherry blossom, floral body with a sweet blackberry finish. Notes of Swiss chocolate and citrus acidity keep the cup balanced and grounded. Available year-round as an any time of day, any type of way coffee, this coffee is our longest running and most fine-tuned roast.
$16
Colombia YR Coffee
This coffee was grown just outside of Bogotá, Colombia by our partner farmer, Silvana Gonzalez, the first woman in the history of Colombia to earn Specialty Coffee Association certification in sensory skills, coffee and roasting! This coffee is roasted to a medium level for YRL, and a dark-medium level for YRD. Both roast levels present a balanced profile with Almond, Caramel, Chocolate and Lemon notes. It's truly a versatile coffee, and is perfect any time of day, every day!
$17
war : Apocalypse Coffee #3
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Live by the sword
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die by the sword
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The boy and the butterfly
Temporarily out of stock
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"There was a little boy who loved caterpillars. One day he found one, took him home and made a home for him. He watched this caterpillar everyday making sure he had plenty of food & water.
One day the caterpillar started creating a cocoon...here he would go through a metamorphosis and become a butterfly. This was so exciting, the little boy couldn’t wait to see the butterfly!
One day it happened, a small hole appeared in the cocoon and the butterfly started to struggle to come out. The little boy was so excited! But then he noticed the butterfly was struggling so hard to get out and it looked like the butterfly wasn’t going to be able to break free!
The little boy was so worried for the butterfly that he decided he had to help. He quickly got a pair of scissors and snipped the cocoon to make the hole bigger and the butterfly quickly emerged!
But the butterfly had a swollen body and small shriveled wings. The little boy sat and watched the butterfly expecting that, at any moment, the wings would dry out, get bigger and expand to support the swollen body.
But it never happened!
The butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings.
It never was able to fly…
He later learned that the butterfly was supposed to struggle. In fact, the butterfly’s struggle to push its way through the tiny opening of the cocoon pushes the fluid out of its body and into its wings. Without the struggle, the butterfly would never, ever fly. It was the struggle that made it stronger."
Happy
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Pumpkin spice Coffee
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Pause
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