Coffee Description
This accessible Colombian launches with fragrances of buttered toast, apple jacks cereal, and vanilla custard. In the cup, candied lemon and cream caramel meld with apple pie and Rainier cherry. It’s a friendly, clean coffee: bright, tartly sweet, medium bodied.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light/Medium
Variety
Caturra
Process
Washed
Elevation
1900 masl
Region
Huila
About Eduardo Lizcano of Colombia
Some mighty fine coffees are coming out of the La Plata municipality of Huila, where they still grow the older non-hybrid varieties like Bourbon and Caturra for classic flavor notes. This particular offering was grown by Eduardo Lizcano. He cultivates an extremely clean and vibrant coffee on his 2.5 hectares at Finca Guatavita where he cares for his 12,500 trees.
Eduardo is part of the Aprocoagrosh association, a group of 20 farmers that left a larger cooperative in Huila when they realized that though their farms were small, their location, expertise, and passion for producing high-quality gave them their own unique edge. Members work with ASORCAFE, a specialty-focused growers’ association where they obtain instruction in management, and production practices.
Huila, Colombia
Onyx Coffee Lab
Lest the myth perpetuate that specialty coffee does not come from Arkansas, Onyx Coffee Lab is blowing that particular urban legend out of the water while creating a few of their own. Husband-wife owners Jon and Andrea Allen have rapidly taken the coffee world by storm with their combination of art and science.
The magic starts with sourcing, with countless small sample batches from coffee importers and with direct visits to farms around the world. "I know direct trade means a lot of different things to different people, but for us if we don’t put money in the producers hands we won’t call it direct trade," says Jon. Once found, the coffees are carefully roasted in twenty-pound or smaller batches, then shared with the three Onyx cafés and over 150 wholesale customers in thirty states.
Clearly Onyx Coffee Lab knows what they're doing: this northwest Arkansas matrix of coffee know-how routinely cleans house at the U.S. Coffee Championships; Andrea Allen placed first in the 2020 Barista Championship, while Elika Liftee placed first in the 2020 Brewers Cup Championship, and they both went on to the 2021 World Coffee Championships to place in 2nd place for Barista and 3rd place for Brewers Cup. Onyx has been chosen by Architectural Digest as Arkansas' most beautiful coffee shop, garnered multiple Good Food Awards, and been described as the "Best bags of coffee you can buy online" in GQ.
