Broadsheet Coffee

Broadsheet Coffee roasts on Kirkland Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The catalog is built on single origins. Thirteen of the 16 active coffees are unblended, which leaves blends at 19 percent of the list.

Colombia supplies the largest share at five lots, followed by three from Ethiopia and two from Guatemala, with single bags from Costa Rica, Mexico, and Uganda filling in the rest. Washed processing covers eight of the 13 single origins. The other five spread across honey, natural, anaerobic, and experimental methods, so the catalog reads as a mostly classical sourcing program with room at the edge for something stranger.

Two of the active coffees are decaf. The roast levels stop short of dark, with four coffees at light, four at medium-light, seven at medium, and one at medium-dark. Prices at the house 10.9 ounce size start at $18.50 and reach $36, with the median at $24, a band wide enough that the cheapest bag and the dearest one are not really the same kind of purchase.

Single Origins

Blends

Roast Profile & Flavor Range

Seven of the 16 coffees sit at medium, and eight sit lighter than that, four at light and four at medium-light. One is medium-dark. Nothing is dark. Half the catalog therefore lands lighter than medium, and the averages behind it read the way you would expect, with acidity coming in just above the midpoint of the scale and body just below it.

Processing carries real variety for a catalog this size. Eight single origins are washed. The other five cover honey, natural, anaerobic fermentation, and a method outside the standard categories, which is where the odder cup notes come from. Prices run $18.50 to $36 at the 10.9 ounce house size, a spread of $17.50 between the least and the most expensive bag on the list, with the median at $24.

What Broadsheet Coffee Coffees Tend to Taste Like

The notes spread wide rather than clustering. No single descriptor appears more than twice across the catalog, and eight of them appear exactly twice, which suggests the coffees are being described one at a time rather than written to a house formula.

Fruit leads. Orchard notes come as cherries, apple, and apricot. Melon arrives as papaya and honeydew. Berry shows up as raspberry and blackberry. Against all that, the sweeter and darker notes hold a minority position, with caramel, nougat, date, and dark chocolate each listed twice. One coffee is described with cola, the outlier of the set. Acidity averages just above the middle and body just below it, so the fruit tends to arrive clean rather than syrupy.

Why Buy Broadsheet Coffee

• Single origins, not blends: Thirteen of 16 active coffees are unblended, and blends account for 19 percent of the list.

• Processing variety at small scale: Eight washed lots sit alongside honey, natural, anaerobic, and experimental ones across just 13 single origins.

• Light and medium, never dark: Eight coffees are roasted lighter than medium and one reaches medium-dark. Nothing goes past it.

• Fruit ahead of chocolate: Papaya, honeydew, raspberry, and cherries appear as often as caramel and dark chocolate do, which leaves the catalog tasting closer to a fruit bowl than to a candy bar.

Is Broadsheet Coffee Right for You?

Filter drinkers and single origin shoppers are the fit here. Thirteen unblended coffees across six countries, half of them roasted lighter than medium, gives a pour-over brewer a real menu, and the processing spread means two Colombian bags on the same shelf can taste almost nothing alike.

Espresso drinkers who want a dark, syrupy base should look at another roaster. One coffee reaches medium-dark and none go past it, and with three blends the catalog is not built around a house espresso. Price is the other consideration. The median bag runs $24 for 10.9 ounces and the top of the range is $36.

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