Coffee Description
This coffee launches with a triple whammy--peach, panela, and pineapple. Add a chaser of sweet tea, a juicy mouthfeel, and a silky-light, fresh finish for a stellar cup from first sip to last lingering drip.
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
1850-1900 masl
Region
Nariño
About Jesús Muñoz of Colombia
Finca La Ondulada is not just “in the mountains.” It sits as astounding 2035 meters above sea level--nearly 7000 feet! This is Onyx’s second year of working with Jesús, and his is the highest elevation farm on which they’ve seen Caturra trees growing. On his roughly 2 hectares of land, owner Jesús’s tends his more than 7000 coffee trees, coaxing from them the flavor of the mountains, pure water, and sky.
Jesús washes his coffee by fermenting for 24 hours, then dries the beans on parabolic raised beds for optimal moisture control. Coffee grown at such high altitudes ripens slower than those lower on the mountain, and this extra time lends more density and flavor to the beans.
Nariño, 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.
