Coffee Description
Honey and a browned, buttery shortbread hang out in the dry fragrance of this fruity coffee. Notes of fig, apricot, and cinnamon surface along with flavors of raspberry and baked apple. Dense honey and dark cacao show up in the finish, joined by date and caramel overtones for a sweet and versatile 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
1750 masl
Region
Huila
About Rubiangel Peña España of Colombia
In 1990, Rubiangel Peña España started farming coffee on .5 hectares at Finca El Porvenir. Since then, he has expanded production to approximately 3 hectares, which he cultivates along with his wife and their three children. Rubiangel strives to continually improve his coffee, and as a natural leader, he has also helped found ASPROCUBARRAL (Asociación de Productores de Cafeteros de Cubarral) and is a council member of the Cooperative of coffee Growers of Meta. Together he and his neighbors work for sustainability and conservation in their corner of Colombia.
Rubiangel’s coffee has placed in the Cup of Excellence contest, and this micro-lot was cupped by Pergamino, a Colombian specialty coffee company that pays premium prices for premium coffees rather than letting them be mixed into a generic coffee. This is part of the Farm Gate program, a designation given to pricing negotiated directly with farmers rather than through co-ops.
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.
