Coffee Description
Silky and floral, this coffee showcases delicate raspberry, red fruits, and florals, along with deep cocoa notes. Bright, vibrant acidity pairs with caramelized, velvety body for a sweet, complex cup.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
Process
Washed
Elevation
2100 masl
Region
Sidama
About Assefa Dukamo of Ethiopia
Sidama coffee man, Assefa Dukamo, and his family own Bombe Washing Station, as well has the sister stations of Shantawene and Qonqona. Bombe serves as a central processing point for Organic Certified coffees grown by local smallholder producers. Bombe also centralizes special processing techniques.
3.7-hectares in size, Bombe Washing Station has the capacity to process 2.5 million kgs of cherries. According to Catalyst Trade who works closely with Assefa, Bombe Washing Station's four-disk Agard pulper in cherry red (shown to the right) anchors the mechanic's shack into the winding cement washing channels and fermentation tanks. Water from the nearby Bonara River is used to process coffees at Bombe.
Sidama, Ethiopia
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.
