Coffee Description
Deep fruits. Exotic sweetness. Aromas include maple syrup, plum, apricot and root beer. In the cup, flavor notes of black cherry, almond, and apple pair with toffee and toast. Sweet acidity and velvety, juicy body round out this supremely drinkable coffee.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
Pacamara
Process
Washed
Elevation
1750 masl
Region
Huehuetenango
About The Perez Family of Guatemala
For almost 80 years now, the Perez family has been exploring and perfecting the art of producing exemplary coffee. Starting back in 1940 with a small acreage, they founded Finca Isnul. Hard work, commitment to excellence, and a never-give-up attitude has stood them in good stead. Not only have they placed in the prestigious Cup of Excellence competition five times (the latest being in 2017 and 2018), over the years, their farm has grown to 160 hectares. This includes a small neighboring farm, El Olvido, acquired some years ago.
That’s where this superb coffee was grown. It’s a Pacamara, a specialty of the Perez family. They’ve kept this El Olvido micro-lot separate, processed it meticulously, and produced a fruit-forward coffee that challenges the concept of what traditional Guatemalan coffees taste like.
Huehuetenango, Guatemala
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.
