Flavor Experience
Elderflower • Lemon Verbena • Fruit Loops
Every now and then a coffee arrives that makes everyone at the cupping table smile.
Rocket Flower is one of those coffees.
The first thing you'll notice is its playful character. Bright citrus, elderflower sweetness, a clean lift of lemon verbena, and something strangely familiar that reminds us of Fruit Loops in the very best way. It is expressive without losing its balance, the kind of coffee that invites another sip simply because you're curious what you'll notice next.
Huver Castillo is a third-generation coffee producer in Buesaco, Nariño. Before returning to his family's farm, El Paseo, he spent years teaching mathematics. Today he works alongside his father on land that has been in their family for more than twenty years, continuing a story that has grown one harvest at a time.
The process behind Rocket Flower is remarkably thoughtful. Carefully selected Caturra cherries undergo an extended fermentation designed to highlight the coffee's natural floral and citrus character before being dried slowly and stabilized to preserve clarity in the cup.
We chose this coffee because it surprised us.
Not with louder flavors, but with the way it balances joy and elegance. It reminds us that coffee can still be playful, and that sometimes the best thing to do is stop trying to describe it.
Just taste it.
ROASTED IN OCEANSIDE · GROUND HOW YOU LIKE IT · SHIPPED THE WEEK YOU ORDER ·
We do not buy lots off a list. Siri travels to origin, sits with the producers, and keeps going back season after season. Five years with the same farm is not a slogan, it is a working relationship where both sides can plan.
That is why this coffee tastes the way it did last year, only better.
However you already make coffee is fine. If you want to get more out of the bag, start here.
Medium grind, water just off the boil, roughly sixty grams of coffee to a litre. Sweeter and more layered.
Fine grind, eighteen in and about thirty six out over thirty seconds. Adjust from there to taste.
Drip machine, French press, milk, oat, ice. There is no wrong way to drink your own coffee.
Two easy ways in. Neither of them requires you to already know what you like.
Sit at the bar and try five to ten side by side. Thirty five dollars, and you pick as you go.
A gift card lets them pick their own bag from whatever is on the bar that week, and it works on anything in the shop.
