Coffee Description
Colloquially known as southern Huila’s godfather of Pink Bourbon, Gabriel farms this coffee on his two hectare farm La Granada. Once picked, the ripe coffee cherries are fermented for 90 hours before being dried mechanically. The resulting cup is laden with red fruits like cherry and raspberry.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
Bourbon
Process
Washed
Elevation
1700 masl
Region
Huila
About Gabriel Castaño Buendía of Colombia
This coffee comes to us by way of Azahar Coffee. Despite enjoying coffees at the Azahar cafes in Bogota, Colomba, we hadn’t ventured into purchasing coffee from the exporting arm of Azahar until now. With Ryan Knapp part of the sales team at Azahar, we were able to secure a few lots from Azahar’s extensive network through Colombia. This Pink Bourbon variety from Huila stood out amongst their offerings, with a distinct fruited profile and delicate florals.
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.
