Coffee Description
The magic starts with aromas of golden raisin, toffee and pumpkin pie, and amps up as candied apple and dark, sweet blood orange show up in the cup. Toasted pecan pie pairs with dark chocolate in the lingering finish. Juicy, very sweet acidity. Velvety body. Epic.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
Pacamara
Process
Washed
Elevation
1700 masl
Region
Chalatenango
About Jorge Raul Rivera of El Salvador
Finca Santa Rosa occupies "Sitio Viejo" ("The Old Site") of Ilobasco before it was moved 150 ago. No traces remain of that old town, and in 2000, only pine trees grew on Finca Santa Rosa. But in 2002, Jorge Raul Rivera and his brother Jose’ Roberto learned about the Cup of Excellence awards and decided to plant the farm to Pacamara coffee with the express goal of ultimately placing in the COE awards. Utilizing the pine trees for shade, the brothers began their journey to coffee excellence.
Eleven years later, Jorge passed away in May, the month when coffee flowers bloom. But Jose’ carried on with their dream and in 2014, Finca Santa Rosa lot 2 won first place in the Cup of Excellence contest. 2015 found them placing once more. Jorge would be so proud.
Chalatenango, El Salvador
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.
