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Bean Juice Club • Monthly Rotating Single Origin

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October is The Coffee Yard's Mt. Elgon Anaerobic Natural from Uganda: whole cherries sealed for 48 hours with the oxygen pushed out, then five weeks drying with the fruit still on.

Tasting notes: Raspberry Jam 🍓, Orange Marmalade 🍊, Fudge 🍫, Sweet Smooth Finish 🍇

Process: Anaerobic Natural; 48 hr low-oxygen fermentation, dried 3 - 5 weeks on raised beds under shade control

Certifications: None

Roast Level: Medium

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Each month, I source a small-batch, single-origin coffee from some of the most remote growing regions in the world… rare stuff that most people never get a chance to try. It's roasted right here in Detroit and shipped straight to your door. No two months are ever the same.

Curious about how this whole thing works? Learn more about Bean Juice Club here.

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Subscribe to the Rotating Single Origin that changes each month.

October is The Coffee Yard's Mt. Elgon Anaerobic Natural from Uganda: whole cherries sealed for 48 hours with the oxygen pushed out, then five weeks drying with the fruit still on.

Tasting notes: Raspberry Jam 🍓, Orange Marmalade 🍊, Fudge 🍫, Sweet Smooth Finish 🍇

Process: Anaerobic Natural; 48 hr low-oxygen fermentation, dried 3 - 5 weeks on raised beds under shade control

Certifications: None

Roast Level: Medium

Save 5% per bag by subscribing!

Each month, I source a small-batch, single-origin coffee from some of the most remote growing regions in the world… rare stuff that most people never get a chance to try. It's roasted right here in Detroit and shipped straight to your door. No two months are ever the same.

Curious about how this whole thing works? Learn more about Bean Juice Club here.

Producer: 300 members of The Coffee Yard growers network, founded by Norman Mukuru.

Farm: Four community stations buying from roughly 300 registered farmers, most managing between 20 and 200 trees.

Location: Mt. Elgon, Uganda. Processed in the Kibira Ward, outside Mbale.

Certifications: None

Processing: Anaerobic Natural

Drying Method: Whole cherries sealed for a 48-hour low-oxygen fermentation, then dried slowly 3–5 weeks on raised beds with careful shade control.

Varieties: SL14, SL28, Nyasaland

Elevation: 1,400 – 2,000 MASL

Crop Year: 2026

Importer: Crop to Cup

Notes from the Importer: Norman Mukuru trained as an agronomist in Kasese, near Uganda's western border, and built collection and processing operations for the exporter Great Lakes before founding The Coffee Yards — a central processing plant outside Mbale where cherry and parchment coming down off the mountain could be dried and processed properly. He opened it as a service, renting drying space to farmers, then shifted to buying cherry outright for the control over processing and the faster payment to growers. When Great Lakes collapsed, Norman kept the yards and the up-mountain network but lost the financing to keep purchasing. Mt. Elgon is Uganda's primary arabica zone, high enough to support both homestead-processed coffees and washing-station lots, and quality on the mountain's western flank has risen steadily as investment in lot separation and farmer extension has taken hold.