Prepare for your next adventure with a strain so stoney that it demands a cup of coffee, as we celebrate the origins of arabica beans with the Ethiopian Sky Cuddler by Plaid Jacket.
Cannabis and coffee go hand in hand, and they are best alternated between puffs and sips with plenty of repetition. Landrace Cannabis is the wild ancestor of our favorite buds, which came from the Hindu Kush mountains in modern India and Pakistan, where it grew wild before being cultivated and bred for the traits we know and love today.
Coffee was also once a wild plant, unknown to the world until trade with Yemen in the 15th century brought Ethiopian coffee arabica to the forefront of high-value crops. Ethiopia is the origin of arabica, which is cultivated at high altitudes, leading to sweeter flavors. Today, 90% of the country’s beans are grown organically in traditional farming or semiwild settings. Much like the hash-producing regions in the Middle East, methods haven’t changed much for thousands of years, keeping tradition alive along with unique genetics.
Here in the PNW, the Plaid Jacket team uses their cutting-edge facility and tissue culture lab to grow unique strains with high technology, delivering delicious flowers and concentrates that are always top shelf. Their cut of Ethiopian x Sky Cuddler Kush is bold and beautiful, like a fresh cup of Joe, and ready to melt minds into a happy puddle.
Frosty buds glisten from the jar like fresh oily coffee beans, releasing an aroma of warm and earthy chocolate, citrus, cheese and java. Breaking up a bowl for a bong hit adds a sour-fermented-diesel note combined with a bitter, soy, rose petal zing that’s complex, funky and delicious.
The first hits from our clean bong send the mind floating into a blissful trance, slowing time and thought as a heavy bodily relaxation takes hold. Within several minutes — and multiple bowls of this clean, smooth and delicious flower — we find ourselves couch locked, sedated and ready for coffee to power our stoney adventure to the kitchen and TV, in that order.
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This article was originally published in the April 2026 issue of Northwest Leaf.
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