Roast Styles | Varietals | Blends | Espresso Blends
Columbia Street Roastery Single Origin Coffees
Taste is taste. And frankly, it is totally subjective. Whether you like your steak well-done or rare has no effect towards the quality of the meat. But, it must be good meat.
Therefore, we’ve chosen the best beans we can find and roast them to various preferences. For example, some coffees, such as the HueHueTenango Guatemalan, allow a roaster quite a bit of latitude. One roaster may choose to roast this coffee to a moderately dark roast, thereby deepening and rounding out its natural spiciness. Our Ethiopian Harrar is a lighter roast and full of fruit notes, while the Celebese/Sulawesi is darker and earthier. Which of these roasts is right? All of them.
Our trained staff is here to help you discover and articulate your own discriminating taste. We can answer all your questions and find the roast or blend that suits just you. Your taste is our primary concern.
Please note, due to our dedication to providing the freshest product to our customers, some of our coffees are not available everyday. We encourage you to call ahead to see if your specific selection is in stock, and if it is not, we will do our best to produce it in a timely manner or suggest a coffee with similar attributes.
FTO—Fair Trade Organic
SHB—Strictly Hard Bean
EP—European Process
D—Offered in Decaf
Brazil Yellow Bourbon [D]
A medium body and very mild acidity, it has several detectable notes: dry spiciness, allspice and nuttiness, all of which are characteristics of a great Brazilian coffee.
Colombian Supremo La Paez [D]
This coffee is well balanced fruity, sweet with good body and slight chocolate notes.
Costa Rican La Dama Tres Rios [D]
Sweet, clean, tangy, rich and a medium body are all attributes of this delightful coffee.
Guatemala HueHueTenango [D]
The chocolate notes predominate in this full-bodied coffee, yet it still produces a slight tartness, thus creating a delightful balance.
Kenya AA [D]
This is a complete coffee that offers a hearty aroma, solid body, a slight sharpness and the blackberry or black currant notes of a deep red wine.
Malawi Mzuzu
This coffee personifies a softer, more floral style of East African coffees. It is medium in body, bright, sweet and displays delicate berry notes.
Mexican Cristal [D]
Low body, but a soft, pleasant sharpness. Possessing a light graham cracker flavor, this coffee is rich, smooth and sweet.
Papua New Guinea Kunjun
This coffee is unique and complex with a deep, clean and intense panoply of earthy spice notes, yet harboring slight fruit notes as well.
Sulawesi/Celebes Kalossi
This semi-washed bean has a full, rich body, is relatively low in acidity, and has herbal, woody and earthy notes.
Tanzanian Peaberry
While similar to Kenyan coffees, it exhibits a touch more spice and floral notes encompassed in a milder body. Chocolate notes are intertwined with sweet berry and vanilla notes, a unique characteristic of East African coffees.
Fair Trade and Organic Coffees
Brazil Sul de Minas [FTO]
This medium-roasted coffee is balanced and has a taste and mouth feel that is sweet and lingering. This particular coffee is dried without the skins of the cherry, and has the sticky fruit pulp still stuck to the bean, which allows the coffee to absorb sweetness from the fruit pulp.
Colombian Supremo Mesa De Los Santos, Bucaramanga
(Rainforest Alliance Organic, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center Shade Grown)
This year’s Colombian is unusually well balanced with a refined rich flavor, a pleasant gentle bite and solid character. This estate is a leader in the Rainforest Alliance.
Ethiopia Moka Harrah
(Organic)
The characteristics of this Ethiopian coffee are in some ways the opposite of its “cousin” the Yirgacheffe. This dry-processed coffee’s complex fruit notes are more typical of ripe berries, such as blueberries, raspberries and strawberries.
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe [D]
(Organic)
Ethiopian coffees display a fruity or winey taste with a pleasant sharpness. Yirgacheffe’s offer a soft, floral aroma, with citrus notes similar to a German Riesling wine. This process seems to soften as well as create a round and delicate yet complex taste.
Mexican Santa Elena, Chiapas [FTO]
This coffee from the mountains in the southeast corner of Mexico have a pleasant dry and soft sharpness with a delicate body.
Nicaraguan Finca La Bastilla [SHB, EP]
(Rainforest Alliance Organic & Shade Grown)
This coffee has a very full, deep roundness to its taste allowing the chocolate notes to flow. What we also like about this coffee is the pleasant spiciness of its bite.
Peru Valle Rio Apurimac, Ayacucho [FTO]
This coffee has a mild bite or acidity and is generally light in body.
Sumatra Gayoland [D]
(Organic)
Probably the most full-bodied coffee we offer. The mellowness, or lack of sharpness, of this coffee only accentuates its pleasant, smooth earthy flavor. This is an ideal coffee for those who use milk or those who want a perfect full-bodied cup in the late afternoon or evening.
Timor [FTO]
The roast for this coffee produces a bean where the sweet-cocoa and spicy notes come to the forefront, but drop the roast before a dark flavor overpowers the characteristics of this coffee.