Solid State Newsletter // Holiday 2023
Stories and news from our cafe in the heart of the Upper West Side
NEWS AND UPDATES
Holiday Season Online Sale 🎁
Let our coffee be your guide during the hustle and bustle this season. For a limited time, use the code HOLIDAYBLEND23 and get 20% off any coffee order (not including bundles).
Breakfast Plates Now Available
We are offering two new amazing plates on our menu. The first is a breakfast plate, featuring scrambled eggs, bacon, sourdough toast, smashed potatoes, with avocado as an optional add-on. The second is a salmon plate, featuring smoked salmon, cream cheese, avocado, and sourdough toast. They're delicious, filling and perfect for breakfast, lunch, or weekend brunch.
Holiday Coffee Bundle
Give the gift of Solid State! We're offering a curated bundle featuring three of our most dynamic coffees. For only $70, you can get a bag of our specialty Holiday Blend, a bag of Laboyano, a great coffee from Colombia, and a box of Finca Cruz, which is an experimental anaerobic fermented coffee. Check it out in our online store!
Coffee Releases ☕️
This season, we've released two new coffees.
This season, we are debuting our Holiday Blend. This blend is dark, full-bodied, and has notes of holiday spice and nuts. However, it's not just a blend of coffees, it's a blend of stories. One component is a lot from Unblended Coffee in Colombia. Unblended has set out to educate and support young producers in the region and build up a new generation of coffee producers. Another component is from Undugu in Uganda. The Undugu Project started as a group of close friends and former colleagues who previously worked together in East Africa. The group committed to working with other farmers and their communities to adapt to climate change and improve their economic outcomes. Those coffees, plus a bit of a natural processed coffee from Ethiopia to give it an extra je ne sais quoi, have created an excellent cup of coffee for whatever holiday you choose to celebrate.
We've also released a coffee from Finca Cruz in Ecuador. We're releasing this coffee under our Hi-Fi Single Origin series, and we're so excited about it. It is is a washed anaerobic process, with bright notes of lime and mandarin oranges. It comes from a producer named Galo Morales, who recently became fed up with the high prices charged by coffee exporters, so he created his own exporting company. Now, he produces and exports his own coffee, as well as exporting coffee for several neighboring farms.
Around the Web
Ancient Landscape Revealed
In his classic novella, In the Mountains of Madness, H. P. Lovecraft told the tale of scientists in Antarctica accidentally waking deadly beings from far in Earth’s past. Today, real scientists continue to explore our geological history in the depths of the antarctic ice. So far, they have not found any Elder Beings or cosmic horrors. However, new data gathered from ice penetrating radar has discovered a remarkably well preserved landscape over 14 million years old!