Welcome to the grail series! After we had launched our new coffee blends earlier in 2026, we always knew that this would be the natural next step for our coffee offerings. This series is a rotating collection of remarkable coffees that we source for the adventurous, the curious, and anyone that’s always chasing that next great cup. Every release will be something new, and when it’s gone, it’s gone.
When sourcing for this series, we’ll be featuring coffees that stick out to us in some way and get us really excited whether that has to do with experimental processing, special microlots, or producers that are going above and beyond. Along with that, we are now kicking off “Grail Series Friday’s” in the cafes. Every Friday we’ll have the current featured coffee brewed up on drip for folks to try out if they’re interested.
We’re very excited that our first feature coffee (BTGS-001) is a coffee produced by Daye Bensa Coffee from the Sidamo region of Ethiopia. Daye Bensa was established in 2006 by brothers Asefa & Mulugeta Dukamo. They were determined to carry their own coffee all the way from the cherry to the export container without losing the traceability that makes Sidama special. They are now one of the major exporting companies in Ethiopia, shipping green coffee directly from its own farms and affiliated farmers. Since they’ve started, Daye Bensa has helped build five schools, register over four-thousand farmers, and created hundreds of new jobs across the region.
As for this specific coffee, it is a community lot sourced from 626 smallholder farms. It comes specifically from the Durato of Bombe Kebele village in the Sidama zone. The village shares its name with the mountain of Bombe, on which the coffee grows. Meticulous processing occurs at the Kontama mill where the coffee is sundried as whole cherries for 10-15 days, creating a fruit-forward and complex flavor profile.
When we did our initial tastings of this coffee, we knew to expect something very fruit-forward. Those flavors come through immediately, along with a nice, full body that lingers on the palette. After multiple tastings we also determined that there was a floral undertone that we couldn’t overlook. Ultimately the tasting notes we landed on were pomegranate, blackberry, and orange blossom. This coffee would be an excellent first cup of the day, just black, or lightly sweetened with some honey. It would also make an outstanding cold brew or flash brew via chemex. Find the coffee in our shop now, and make sure to check back here for the next featured coffee!
Oh, one more thing. Each coffee in this series is labeled with a code that looks like this: BTGS-001. It’s pretty simple. BTGS = Brass Tacks Grail Series. The following number is the number of the release in this line up. I did this for two reasons: one, I think it makes these easier to track if we ever wanted to pull information or reference one of them for quality control, roasting curves, farm information, and so on. It’s also easier on the customer to reference the code rather than remember the origin name “Ethiopia Sidamo Durato Bombe Kontama”. That is a mouthful. Secondly, this is how record labels label their album releases, and I think that is cool. Peace!