Journal — March 2025

Hi there friends! Caleb here. As always, I’m so grateful that you each trust me and the Yonder team to curate your coffee each month. This month’s feature is a special one. I first encountered Offshoot when some friends shared a bag with me a couple months ago and I was very impressed.

Based in Perth, Australia—the most remote city on the planet—Offshoot was founded in 2018 (just like us!) with the goal of sourcing some of the most exclusive and unique coffees the world has to offer, and roasting them with great attention to detail. Rummy Keshet, their head roaster, moved to London in 2009 to pursue music. Making a living as a musician was tough in a city as expensive as London. Coffee, however, always paid the bills. He started as a barista in Camden Town, working a lever machine mounted on a piano. At first, it was just a way to get by, but he quickly saw how much the two industries shared. “Just like a great song,” he told me, “a great coffee could make people stop, connect, and come back for more.”

This was around the same time that London’s specialty coffee scene really took off, Rummy got into competitions, volunteered at roasteries learning whatever he could, and immersed himself in the craft of making coffee. By the time he moved to Perth in 2013, coffee had become his new paradigm. “A café is like a band, roasting is like sound engineering, and every new coffee is like a song—you tweak it, refine it, and shape how people experience it.”

In 2018, he started Offshoot, and especially in the last couple of years, their team’s work has begun gaining recognition beyond Perth. “The deeper I leaned into specialty coffee, the more I saw how special the people in it were—producers, exporters, importers, and consumers alike. Coffee became more than just a craft; it became a new language, connecting us all in a way words never could.”

That resonates with me a lot. Coffee has connected me to so many amazing people all over the world, and it constantly reminds us how interconnected we all are. The coffees Rummy and his team sent us this month are special, each in their own right. Harusuke and Natcha 8 have similar tasting notes, yet are wildly different coffees—from different continents, different varieties, different processing methods, etc. The Gesha Village Bangi is genuinely stunning. But I might be most excited about the Autumn Amber. Offshoot was able to secure us enough for our 4 bag subscribers and a few bags for retail. Yunnan is producing fantastic coffees as of late, and this one is quite a unique treat. Enjoy them!