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Monkey Bite Espresso
Bird Rock uses this blend in every espresso drink.
Curator’s note
When a water main broke on Morena Boulevard in September 2017, the staff sandbagged the windows to keep the rising water off the coffee, and the roastery reopened at six in the morning the next week. Since Jeff Taylor bought the company that year it has grown from two cafes and a roasting plant to eleven cafes, a catering bus called Baby Bird and an equipment repair company, Espresso Medic of SD.
The Coffee
Albert Straus is the company's milk partner, and the decaf shelf carries a Swiss Water natural from 290 farmers in Sidama beside a Peru through Lima Coffees. The direct-trade bags include Fazenda Terra Alta in Ibiá, Minas Gerais, a natural IAC 125 from Paulo and Juliana Piancastelli, who built the farm on a degraded cattle ranch.
- Tolima | Organic
Colombia, Tolima (Planadas, Rioblanco, and Chaparral)
- Varietals
- Castillo, Colombia, Caturra
- Process
- Washed
- Producer
- Cooperativa Multiactiva de Asociaciones Agropecuarias del Tolima (Multicoop)
brown sugar · tangerine · yellow apple
- Midnight Surf
- Roast
- Dark
- Varietals
- Castillo, Colombia, Caturra
- Process
- Fully washed
cocoa · baked apple · dried plum
- Cafe Del Sol
dark honey · clementine · blackberry
- Little Italy
- Process
- Natural, Washed
graham cracker · macadamia · cocoa
- Fifty-Fifty
dark chocolate · caramel · date
- Monkey Bite Espresso
Africa and South America
brown sugar · dried apricot · butterscotch
- The Optimist
- Process
- Natural, Washed
dark chocolate · cinnamon · cola
- Bird Rock
- Process
- Washed
black pepper · red apple · fudge
- Gesha Santa Ana
Guatemala, Santa Rosa (La Gavia mountain, between the Tecuamburro and Pacaya volcanoes)
- Varietals
- Gesha
- Process
- Anaerobic: Natural
- Producer
- Finca Santa Ana
passion fruit sorbet · white chocolate · lemon curd
- Lima Decaf
Peru, Cajamarca
- Varietals
- Caturra, Typica, Bourbon, Catimor
- Process
- Mountain Water Decaf
- Producer
- Rony Lavan / Lima Coffees
brown sugar · chocolate covered almonds · dried fig
- Ayla
Ethiopia, Sidamo (Sidama zone), SNNPR
- Varietals
- Heirloom
- Process
- Washed
- Producer
- Alya Washing Station, operated by Testi Trading
honeysuckle · dried apricot · limeade
- Inga Mystique
Colombia, Nariño (Aponteña zone and Tablón de Gómez) · up to 2,500 meters above sea level
- Varietals
- Castillo, Colombia, Caturra
- Process
- Washed
- Producer
- Inga indigenous community
marshmallow · grape soda · orange marmalade
- Miraflores | Pink Bourbon
Colombia
- Varietals
- Pink Bourbon
- Process
- Honey
- Producer
- Miraflores Farm
Rainier cherry · rose water · raspberry · vanilla frosting
- La Avila SL28
El Salvador, Near Santiago de Maria, Cerro El Tigre
- Varietals
- SL28
- Process
- Fully washed
- Producer
- Finca Las Mercedes
red grape · nougat · toffee
- Tiger
Sumatra, Aceh highlands
- Varietals
- Ateng, Bor Bor, Catimor, Timor
- Process
- Wet hulled (Giling Basah)
sugar cane · plum · pink peppercorn
- Tres Dragones
Colombia, Valle del Cauca (Caicedonia) · 1,430-1,860 masl
- Process
- Fermented 36 hours in cherry, 48 hours in mechanical dryers, then 15 days of solar drying
- Producer
- Potosi Farm, Cafe Granja La Esperanza
The Vibe
Bird Rock's Morena Boulevard cafe carries the company name in white capitals along a dark fascia over white walls, with a teal mural of a van beside the door and a wood-clad box over the entrance. Silver metal tables and chairs sit under a blue umbrella on the patio out front, between a bed of succulents and the parking lot.
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