Coffee Description
Orange blossoms swirl with notes of fresh peaches, Assam tea, and cocoa in this complex, sweet cup. Brightly sparkling, a bit like floral lemonade, it’s a balanced cup, refined, yet easy-drinking, intensifying as it cools.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
Process
Washed
Elevation
1950 masl
Region
Guji zone
About Smallholder producers of Ethiopia
The sound of singing accompanies the watery swish of rakes as workers stir coffee beans in the long washing troughs at Uraga mill, where Uraga Cooperative members bring their ripe cherries for processing. This part of Ethiopia has some of the highest grown coffees, later to ripen than beans from lower elevations. It puts lots like this late in the season for processing and shipping, but there's a pay-off: higher elevation equals slower ripening, resulting in more intensity of flavor.
Add tp these elements Ethiopian Heirloom varieties of coffee, and it’s a recipe for complexndeliciousness. Thankfully, 2017 legislation now allows washing stations like Uraga to deal directly with buyers, so that growers are able to receive equitable prices for their hard work and incredible coffees.
Guji zone, 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.
