Bird Rock Coffee Roasters - Morena Blvd
Curator’s note
Bird Rock's owner has worked exclusively with one farm in Nariño for sixteen years, Padre Joe's Finca Villa Loyola, where the ground is fully organic and Padre Joe declines to certify it. That is a long enough run that the certificate would only be telling the buyer what he already knows.
Bird Rock's signature espresso blend of African and South American coffees, pulled as espresso, drip coffee, or in a Cortado at every retail cafe.
The coffee
The single-origin list runs eight bags, each named to its variety and process: a Guatemala Gesha finished anaerobic natural, a fully washed SL28 out of El Salvador, a washed Ethiopian heirloom, a wet-hulled Sumatra. Not one of them prints a roast date, an odd thing to leave off a bag from a house this exact about everything else.
- Tolima | Organic
- Castillo, Colombia, Caturra
- Washed
- Cooperativa Multiactiva de Asociaciones Agropecuarias del Tolima (Multicoop)
brown sugar · tangerine · yellow apple
- Midnight Surf
- Dark
- Castillo, Colombia, Caturra
- Fully washed
cocoa · baked apple · dried plum
- Cafe Del Sol
dark honey · clementine · blackberry
- Little Italy
- Natural, Washed
graham cracker · macadamia · cocoa
- Fifty-Fifty
dark chocolate · caramel · date
- Monkey Bite Espresso
brown sugar · dried apricot · butterscotch
- The Optimist
- Natural, Washed
dark chocolate · cinnamon · cola
- Bird Rock
- Washed
black pepper · red apple · fudge
- Gesha Santa Ana
- Gesha
- Anaerobic: Natural
- Finca Santa Ana
passion fruit sorbet · white chocolate · lemon curd
- Lima Decaf
- Caturra, Typica, Bourbon, Catimor
- Mountain Water Decaf
- Rony Lavan / Lima Coffees
brown sugar · chocolate covered almonds · dried fig
- Ayla
- Heirloom
- Washed
- Alya Washing Station, operated by Testi Trading
honeysuckle · dried apricot · limeade
- Inga Mystique
- Castillo, Colombia, Caturra
- Washed
- Inga indigenous community
marshmallow · grape soda · orange marmalade
- Miraflores | Pink Bourbon
- Pink Bourbon
- Honey
- Miraflores Farm
Rainier cherry · rose water · raspberry · vanilla frosting
- La Avila SL28
- SL28
- Fully washed
- Finca Las Mercedes
red grape · nougat · toffee
- Tiger
- Ateng, Bor Bor, Catimor, Timor
- Wet hulled (Giling Basah)
sugar cane · plum · pink peppercorn
- Tres Dragones
- Fermented 36 hours in cherry, 48 hours in mechanical dryers, then 15 days of solar drying
- Potosi Farm, Cafe Granja La Esperanza
The room
The room started as a coffee cart set inside the facility itself, so people could taste something while they watched it being made, and it took until 2020 for that cart to become a full cafe. Interior windows keep the production and quality-control teams in view from the counter, and on a weekday the place smells like the morning's roast and sounds like the work going on behind the glass.
The vibe
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People
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