Push x Pull Coffee

Fermentation shapes most of what Push x Pull sells. Six of the roaster's 15 active coffees are processed anaerobically or with a deliberate ferment, four are naturals, and three are honeys. Exactly one is washed.

The catalog carries no blends. Every active coffee is a single origin, and the sourcing spreads across 10 countries, with Colombia leading at four lots and Costa Rica and Ethiopia holding two apiece. Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Uganda and Zambia each account for one coffee, which means the lineup in any given week reads as a set of one-off purchases rather than a standing roster of the same few farms. Prices at the most common size, 10 ounces, run from $24 to $32, and the median bag is $25. The gap between the cheapest and the most expensive bag is $8. One coffee is decaffeinated.

Push x Pull sells through its own site, and the roaster list places it in the West. The site names no founding year, so the picture here comes from the catalog. It shows a buyer working through small, uncommon lots and roasting nearly all of them to the same point, which leaves the processing rather than the roast to do most of the work in the cup.

Single Origins

Roast Profile & Flavor Range

Eleven of the 15 coffees land at medium-light. The other four are medium. Nothing goes dark, and nothing is taken to the lightest step either, so the entire catalog occupies two adjacent points on a five-level scale. Acidity averages in the middle of the range and body does the same, which reads as restrained for a lineup this heavy on fermentation. The roast explains it. Stopping a fermented lot at medium-light keeps its sugars in place without pushing the cup into the thin, tea-like register that a lighter finish tends to produce.

Latin America supplies 11 of the 15 lots and Africa the other four. The price band tracks the sourcing rather than the roast. Small single-farm volumes and processing that takes extra time at the mill are what carry a 10-ounce bag from $24 to $32.

What Push x Pull Coffee Coffees Tend to Taste Like

Pineapple is the note that repeats most across the catalog, sometimes plain and sometimes candied. Papaya and cantaloupe sit behind it. Berries turn up as blackberry and blueberry rather than as a general red-fruit impression, and the citrus that appears is sharper than orange, closer to key lime and bergamot.

Sweetness arrives as agave and candy rather than caramel or brown sugar. Rum shows up twice, which is the kind of note a long ferment leaves behind. What the top of the list does not contain is chocolate, nuts or any of the roast-derived flavors a darker catalog would produce, and that absence is the clearest single description of what these coffees taste like.

Why Buy Push x Pull Coffee

• Processing over roast: Only one of the 15 coffees is washed, and the roast stays inside one narrow band, so what changes from bag to bag is mostly what happened at the mill.

• Ten countries, no blends: The catalog is all single origin.

• Fruit-forward by the numbers: CoffeeByMe reads the note data across the whole lineup, and tropical fruit and berry dominate it while chocolate barely registers.

• A rotating shelf: Seven of the 10 origins appear once. The lineup behaves less like a menu and more like whatever came off the last few buying trips.

Is Push x Pull Coffee Right for You?

This lineup suits a filter drinker who wants fruit before anything else and does not mind paying for it. Anyone who tracks processing as a category, or who wants to compare an anaerobic lot against a natural from the same roaster, has plenty to work with here.

It is a poor fit if you drink milk coffee at home. There are no blends, no espresso-labeled options, and almost nothing roasted past medium, so the chocolate and nut register that carries a latte is missing. Budget shoppers should also look elsewhere. The cheapest 10-ounce bag is $24.

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