Happy Camper

Why this one

Treeline Coffee Roasters is where I got into modern coffee, full stop. I was in and out of Bozeman a lot in the 2016-2019 era, and their cafe was my regular spot. Watching Natalie and the team work, I learned how much sourcing actually matters — they knew their producers by name, which turns out to be the hardest and most important part of being a good roaster. Chewuch Coffee exists because of Treeline.

Happy Camper has been Treeline's best seller from their regular lineup for a reason: it works on aficionados and on people who've never tried a lighter roast in their life. More than anything, it's the coffee I reach for when I want to introduce someone to what "specialty coffee" actually means. It's popular because it's good.

This bag comes from the Taypiplaya community in Bolivia's Caranavi region, where a younger generation of producers is experimenting with new methods alongside traditional shade-grown farming. A note for the curious: Happy Camper is a name Treeline keeps while the sourcing underneath it rotates between harvests — their current lot is from Guatemala, but the bag I'm pouring this week is the Bolivia harvest, and this page describes what's actually in it.

Treeline calls it s'mores in a cup, and they're not wrong — chocolate up front, a body as light and fluffy as toasted marshmallow, a graham-cracker finish. Works black or with cream. No drama, just genuinely good — exactly the job for week one.