Coffee Description
Straddling the line of modern tropics and comforting sweetness, this coffee offers mouthwatering, vibrant acidity and supportive sweetness for an exciting but balanced cup. Notes of tangerine, lime, and orgeat (almond & rose water simple syrup) resonate in the final cup.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
Caturra
Process
Washed
Elevation
1900 masl
Region
Antioquia
About Albeiro Ramirez of Colombia
In the small village of San Carlos lies the farm, El Bosque, owned and operated by Albeiro Ramirez. Albeiro has owned Finca El Bosque (The Forest) since 2014, and cultivates about 6500 coffee trees there, mostly of the Caturra variety.
Immediately after picking his ripe coffee, Albeiro ferments the cherries for 48 hours in fresh water from a spring on site before processing and then drying on raised beds. His attention to detail can be tasted in this 100% Caturra micro-lot that shone on the cupping table.
Antioquia, 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.
