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It's A Riot! Dark Matter Coffee 2023 RIOT Fest Collaborations
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Parliament Funkadelic featuring George Clinton: Funk Uncut and Doobie in Your Funk
ALL THAT IS GOOD IS NASTY!
Your interplanetary dealers of funky coffee are here to announce the mothership of all collaborations has landed! In honor of THEE Star Child, George Clinton, we dropped TWO collaborative Coffee Cold Cans: Funk Uncut: a loud, jucy, all frills AND funk, straight coffee! And Doobie in Your Funk: a strawberry-cough terpene-bombed-out version of Funk Uncut with notes of berry, and grape.
As a celebration of both their performance at RIOT Fest and to commemmorate their farewell tour, we're also hosting an exclusive Parliament Funkadelic ft. George Clinton merch popup here at the Mothership--while supplies last!
Big shoutout to Oscar Joyo for creating the beautiful artwork on these cans!
Merch only at The Mothership and Coffee Cold cans available at all of our stores!
COFFEE NOTES:
For this blend, we definitely needed to bring the funk so for the base of this blend we used a juicy, funky natural processed Pacamara from El Rosario in El Salvador. Pacamaras are known for having some herbaceous, tea-like notes that work well with the natural processing method for this coffee to create a complex, unique cup profile.Country: El Salvador
Farm: El Rosario
Cultivar: Pacamara
Process: Natural
Country: El Salvador
Farm: Las Marias
Cultivar: Pacas
Process: Natural
- Funk Uncut Notes: Papaya, Oolong Tea, Demerara Sugar
- Doobie in Your Funk Notes: berry, and grape, a noticeably different flavor profile!
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The Black Angels: Limited Coffee Cold
HEAD FOR THE HILLS, PICK UP CANS ON THE WAY
To celebrate their Chicago performances at Chop Shop, RIOT Fest, AND special solo acoustic performances at Star Lounge, we teamed up once again with the modern psychedelic masters, The Black Angels, from Austin, Texas for a new Coffee Cold can! We used double-honey processed coffees from the Pacas Family for our fuzz-toned darlings.
Artwork: in-house designer, Jourdon Gullett
Artwork: in-house designer, Jourdon Gullett
COFFEE NOTES:
The base of this blend is a honey-processed Pacas from Vista Hermosa, producing an elegant, bright cup. We layered the blend like a good reverb, with a honey-processed Bourbon and Pacas blend of beans that comes from the Santa Ana region. This bean has loads of body, with a sweet, caramel-like profile. Together these beans make an approachable iced coffee that is delicious on its own and also pairs well with cream and sugar.
Country: El Salvador
Farm: Vista Hermosa
Cultivar: Pacas
Process: Honey
Country: El Salvador
Mill: Cafe Tuxpal
Cultivar: Bourbon & Pacas
Process: Honey
Notes: Toffee, Earl Grey, Cocoa
Jake Garcia, Christian Bland, Alex Maas, and Ramiro Verdooren
*Photos by Andrew Bridgewater and Sundown Hodges
*Photos by Andrew Bridgewater and Sundown Hodges
It's A Riot! Dark Matter Coffee 2022 Riot Fest Collaborations
TAKING BACK SUNDAY X DARK MATTER COFFEE
COFFEE WITHOUT THE 'E'
Our first collaboration can for Riot Fest is with Long Island's own Taking Back Sunday. Most famous for their incredible run of records Tell All Your Friends (which is celebrating it's 20th anniversary this year), Where You Want To Be, and Louder Now, these guys helped to forge and define the 2000's rock scene. With a number of hits under their belt and 20+ years as a band, you'd think any band would be satisfied with resting on their laurels, but Taking Back Sunday continues to crank out high-quality rock as recently as 2016's Tidal Wave.
The Blend
The blend contains two different Guatemalan beans from our friends at Finca San Jeronimo. A washed Sarchimor makes up the base of this blend with a honey processed Catuai being a bright accent coffee. Together they create a nutty, sweet coffee cold with notes of baking spice.
THE WONDER YEARS X DARK MATTER COFFEE
THE BUZZ GOES ON FOREVER
Our collaboration with The Wonder Years shares artwork with their September 2022 album, The Hum Goes On Forever on Hopeless Records. The Hum Goes on Forever is filled with emotional punk fused with pop sensibility, with the a more mature sad-yet-hopeful lyricism than their previous work.
The Coffee
The artwork reminds us of the beautiful beaches and sunsets of El Salvador, inspiring the coffee used for this collaboration. For this coffee cold, there is just one coffee inside, a honey processed Bourbon from Santa Petrona in El Salvador. Federico's attention to detail with processing is showcased in this juicy, complex Bourbon that is shade dried on raised beds to maximize the fermentation of all the sticky, sweet mucilage on the pulped coffee.
