Populace Coffee

But also because just outside our roastery, the Saginaw River flows into the Saginaw Bay before emptying into Lake Huron, one of the largest bodies of freshwater in the world. Having all that water so close to home comes with a sense of responsibility and stewardship; a constant reminder to look after the most valuable natural resource we have, starting with our state's tributaries, streams, and those exceedingly well-named Great Lakes.

We'll send you one 300 gram bag every 7, 14, or 30 days chosen for you by us, Populace Coffee! Choose your desired frequency, and your coffee will be roasted and shipped on the next roast day (Monday through Wednesday). With a Roaster's Choice coffee subscription, you will receive rotating coffee offerings from our single-origin selection.

Depending on the time of day you receive an email saying your order has shipped, it may not have actually been roasted yet. Typically we create all of our shipping labels before we roast them for the day, which will result in you receiving an email about your order before it has left our facility to it's shipping destination.

Katia has spent most of her life on the San Isidro coffee farm owned by her family in Copan, Honduras. She pursued a formal education in agriculture before attaining dedicated plots at San Isidro to develop her own coffee using contemporary and sustainable techniques.

Katia didn't stop there, she is a certified roaster and barista and owns her own cafe where she roasts and brews the coffee she grows at San Isidro, allowing her the opportunity to truly control every variable from seed to cup.The IHCAFE90 varietal, a hybridization of Timor Hybrid and Caturra, was developed by the Honduran Coffee Institute, or IHCAFE, to be resistant to coffee leaf rust which has been an epidemic for coffee producers in Honduras.

This coffee comes from the Adado Washing Station in the Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia. Most coffee in Ethiopia is grown by small shareholders who grow coffee on as little as of an acre before delivering the ripe cherries to collective washing stations where it is sorted, processed, and exported.

Most of these coffees are heirloom varieties, meaning they are from coffee plants that have grown naturally in these areas for hundreds of years, without independent evolution or hybridization.These coffees have so much mystique, as they are not as traceable as some coffees that come from one specific producer, but still yield incredible profiles that are sweet and balanced with juicy acidity and floral aromas.