One Line Coffee-Short North

Another PNG offering from a relationship formed during our 2024 origin visit with . Papua New Guinea is a challenging origin to source fully traceable coffees, especially from a single farmer or producer. We’re thrilled to feature one from Peter Seed. Fittingly named for coffee farming, Peter inherited his land from his father, and he farms it with both his immediate and extended family.

Peter is dedicated to producing high quality coffee, and we’re committed to finding producers like him in Papua New Guinea, an area where coffees are usually purchased for their low price tag. Crop to Cup wants to build something different, identifying smallholders throughout the Highlands that are eager to do something special.

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Our first coffee from Timor-Leste (East Timor). This naturally processed coffee is from smallholders in the region of Ermera.

Although Timor-Leste is a new addition to One Line, the island’s coffee industry is rich with historical importance. Most notably for the discovery of the Timor Hybrid in 1927.

This natural cross between the Arabica and Robusta (Canephora) species was an improbable event given the genetic differences between the two species. This Hybrid provided future generations of coffee growers with a durable and disease-resistant genetic parent, which could be bred with other Arabica varieties and cultivars to produce workhorse cultivars. Some of these cultivars like Sarchimor and Catimor are present in this coffee, along with the Timor Hybrid itself.

Apricot, Cocoa Powder, Cherry, and Licorice. This sweet and approachable natural is a great coffee to enjoy the marriage between the tradition and history of Timor-Leste, with modern specialty processing techniques and rigorous quality standards.

Slowly becoming our annual go-to Holiday Season coffee, this Pink Champagne Process Coffee from is back. We only have ~250 lbs remaining, and it will go quickly!

This year this coffee is incredibly phosphoric and sparkling, with notes of Watermelon, Guava, and Pink Starburst. More coffee or more Pink Champagne? You decide!

Available online and in-store

We’re BACK at this weekend, and we have some exciting things happening. We’ll be brewing up a delicious White Honey processed coffee from Bekele Belaychow, who we visited earlier this year in Ethiopia in February. We’ll also be serving a cold coffee mocktail featuring a Decaf coffee from Jorge Zapata in Jerico, Colombia. But that’s not all!

Attendees can swing by our booth at 1130am BOTH DAYS for a live interview with some of our partners. On Saturday at 1130 we’ll be speaking with Ben Heins from about projects in Ethiopia, including the pulper used to create the White Honey coffee we’ll be serving.

We’ll also be speaking on Sunday with Daniel Velasquez, the founder of & . The decaf coffee featured in our mocktail comes from a network of producers Daniel has been working with for several years in Antioquia.

Our booth will also feature a recipe card for our mocktail, so if you enjoy it, you can make it at home! Swing on by!

SNEAK PEEK & OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT

We’re a bit behind schedule, but we’ve been hard at work. Our Short North location is officially reopening FRIDAY OCT 3. We’ll have a few things that we’re still finishing over the coming days, but we can’t wait any longer to show you all the changes!

Swing on through and visit!

Join the team in our (soon-to-be) fully renovated Short North location!

SHORT NORTH UPDATE

As many of you have seen over the last few weeks, we’ve been renovating our Short North location while maintaining regular hours. Big things are underway, and we’re beyond excited to share the new space with you all soon. To finish the last stages of this project, we will be closing the shop this Monday, September 8. We anticipate we will be reopening Monday, September 22, but we will keep everyone updated on the progress! We can’t wait to unveil all of the changes!

If you’re craving our coffee, please consider stopping by our Franklinton location at 471 W Rich St.

PNG WAINGAR UPDATE - WATER ACCESS

Hey everyone, this is Zach from One Line Coffee! Last year we started a new Smallholder Fund that has been a passion project of mine for some time. It is a culmination of my travels over the last few years, visiting various origins we source from around the world.

Although coffee comes from different continents, across varying cultures and geographies, smallholders across the world face similar challenges. Outside of adverse weather, most of them revolve around finances, whether it is access to lending (especially at reasonable rates), logistical challenges preventing raw material acquisition, lack of bank accounts, etc.

At One Line, while we do bring in innovative coffees utilizing state-of-the-art processing techniques, these coffees are expensive to buy because they are expensive to produce. There is a reason you do not see these coffees coming from most smallholders, as much as they may want to produce them.

We ensure that a significant portion of our offering list comes from smallholders, whether it is from Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Guatemala, Burundi, Rwanda, the list goes on…

We aim to build sustainable relationships with smallholders, but we know that alone sometimes isn’t enough. With more experience each trip, I thought it was best we start a fund that can be more targeted, and aggressive, to address specific circumstances for smallholders we buy from.

In 2024, I visited Papua New Guinea with , where I fell in love with the community in Waingar Village. This community showed a great commitment to producing quality coffee, but they had a massive challenge: water access. At the time, they had a ditch in the center of the village that would collect water during the rainy season. Otherwise, members would travel some 200+ meters down the mountain and back to collect water with small buckets.

Our goal with Crop to Cup was to fund a water pump, and reservoir to hold water for the village’s consumption and for coffee processing, along with shade nets for coffee drying. That goal became a reality in April when Waingar Village fired upon their new pump and Tuffa Tanks to provide water to the community.

NEW ORIGIN - NEPAL

We have a mere 20lbs of this beautiful coffee from Nepal. This lot is an anaerobic natural from the Lekali Estate () which is run by Nima Tenzing Sherpa, who is also a certified Q-Grader and SCA barista. The Estate is nestled in the Ganesh Himal mountain range between 1300 and 1600 meters above sea level.

This coffee underwent a 10 day anaerobic fermentation in plastic drums, with pH levels monitored daily. The coffee was sun-dried for 5 days before being brought into a shaded area for slower drying, until a moisture content of 10.9% was reached.

Due to the small amount of coffee on hand, we are taking pre-orders online that will be roasted on 7/7. There is currently a VERY SMALL (three pouches each) inventory at both our Short North and Franklinton stores. Check the link in our bio to pre-order!

Our last day in Colombia was spent at a truly unique urban farm setting visiting and cupping coffees at ’s new office in Medellín.

is tucked within the city limits of Medellín to provide views unlike most coffee farms in the world. They have many projects ensuing which include: new co-fermentation or enhanced processing techniques, coffee variety research, utilizing coffee blossoms to create herbal infusions, or even using leaves from stumped coffee trees to create an herbal infusion similar to tea.

’s new Medellín office provides a great place for the team to more easily cup and evaluate coffees from the producers they work with.

2025’s visit to Colombia was incredibly fruitful and we’re so excited to share the coffees from this recent harvest. These coffees will be landing in the July/August timeframe!

Our third day in the field took us to the town of Jericó, 2 hours outside Medellín in Antioquia. From here we’ve been purchasing coffee from the Madre Laura community, and also specifically from Jorge Zapata within this group. Pictured first is Jorge’s son Tomas, and we were happy to bring some of their coffee back to them during our visit.

For us it’s an exciting project, as we’ve been working hard to find a single producer decaf for quite some time (decaf needs love too!). Our search was remedied by the help of which runs two coffee shops in Antioquia, along with a truly boutique exporting operation. The founder Daniel (), has roots here, as his grandfather was a coffee farmer around the town of Jericó.

In Jericó, Campesino runs a small bodega/warehouse that functions as a cherry buying station. The 2nd floor includes a small roastery along with a coffee school. This school partners with El Sena to train both baristas and coffee producers.

Jorge Zapata has been working tirelessly acquiring several farms in order to protect the local land from a large mining company. This company is attempting to mine directly underneath local coffee producers’ land (only about 3 meters under the surface is technically owned by the producers). This trip we visited one of his newest farms, El Nido del Águila (The Eagle’s Nest), and witnessed some truly breathtaking scenery. The farm rests at 2140m and grows traditional varieties and cultivars like Castillo, and V. Colombia.

We’re incredibly excited about the potential of this relatively new partnership. Give this decaf a shot, it’s rare to find one from a single producer.