Coffee Description
Nilson is a young producer from the municipality of Inza who manages a coffee warehouse and has a two-hectare farm where he grows and processes Caturra. We’ve been purchasing coffee from the Pillamue family for a few seasons, and it is easy to see why we’d feature this high quality micro-lot within the our single origin program. This micro-lot represents everything we love about Inza with its refined, dried fruit sweetness and crisp apple acidity.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Medium
Variety
Caturra
Process
Washed
Elevation
1900 masl
Region
Cauca
About Nilson Pillamue of Colombia
This lot comes from Nilson Pillimue, a twenty-six year old producer who not only grows coffee in the Inza municipality, but also manages a warehouse where many of the coffees we purchase go into holding before milling. On his two hectare farm, he grows Caturra at a soaring 2000 meters above sea level. Nilson is a pillar in the community, where he promotes the growth of specialty coffee to his neighbors and friends.
Cauca, 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.
