Dekáf A Sundown Affair is a new limited-edition seasonal decaf coffee collection from Dekáf Coffee Roasters, launched September 26, 2026, featuring three roast expressions — Nordic (light), City (medium) and Italian (dark) — made from a Swiss Water Process blend of Ethiopia Sidamo Bombe and Colombia Excelso beans, sold individually or as a Fall Bundle at dekaf.com.
What Is Dekáf A Sundown Affair?
Dekáf Coffee Roasters, a specialty roaster built entirely around decaffeinated coffee, announced A Sundown Affair in a press release published September 26, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. ET on BevNET’s press release wire. It’s described as the brand’s first-ever multi-expression seasonal release, built to show how roast level alone changes the flavor of the same underlying coffee.
The blend combines Ethiopia Sidamo Bombe with Colombia Excelso grown by smallholder producers in Huila, and both components go through the Swiss Water Process — a chemical-solvent-free decaffeination method that’s become a selling point for coffee drinkers who want to cut caffeine without cutting flavor complexity.
The Three Roast Expressions
- Nordic (light roast): tasting notes of green apple gummy, cranberry compote and wildflower honey.
- City (medium roast): tasting notes of panettone, pear galette and rum raisin ice cream.
- Italian (dark roast): tasting notes of dark chocolate cake, fig jam cookie and mulled wine.
Each roast is sold in 12-ounce or one-pound bags, available as whole bean or custom ground, either individually or as a three-roast Fall Bundle, directly through dekaf.com. The company describes availability as limited for the season.
If you’re stocking up on fall coffee for entertaining, our Tiramisu Cold Brew guide is worth a look — the City roast’s rum raisin and panettone notes in A Sundown Affair would sit especially well in a cold-brew dessert drink like that one.
Does This Affect a Recipe You’re Planning to Make?
If you’re planning to make our Tiramisu Cold Brew this fall, a medium-roast decaf like Dekáf’s City expression is a reasonable swap for regular cold brew concentrate if you want the dessert-drink flavor without the extra caffeine — the rum raisin and panettone tasting notes echo the tiramisu flavor profile the recipe is built around.
Is This Common?
Multi-roast seasonal releases are a well-established move for specialty coffee roasters generally, but they’re less common in the decaf-only space, where product lineups tend to be smaller. Dekáf explicitly frames A Sundown Affair as its first release of this kind, positioning it as an experiment in showing decaf drinkers how roast level changes flavor — the same variable regular-coffee roasters have long used to differentiate seasonal drops. The launch was confirmed directly through Dekáf’s own press release and mirrored on the company’s own site, with no third-party media coverage found predating the September 26 announcement.
Quick Questions
Is A Sundown Affair fully caffeine-free? No. Swiss Water Process decaf, like the process used here, removes about 99.9% of caffeine but isn’t advertised as zero-caffeine.
Where can I buy it? Directly from dekaf.com, as single roasts or the three-roast Fall Bundle; the press release does not list third-party retail availability.
What’s the decaffeination method? The Swiss Water Process, a chemical-solvent-free method that uses water, temperature and time rather than chemical solvents to remove caffeine.
Update Log
September 28, 2026: Article published based on Dekáf Coffee Roasters’ September 26, 2026 press release announcing A Sundown Affair.
