Coffee Description
As if the classic pairing of milk chocolate and orange is not sufficient, this cup offers more--hazelnut (think Nutella) and pineapple, with sweetly-tart acidity, and silky body. Clean, balance, and consistent.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Medium
Variety
Pacamara
Process
Washed
Region
Huehuetenango
About Danny Perez of Guatemala
“This farm had belonged to our mother's family since 1940 and my grandfather since 1969,” says owner Danny Perez. Starting from the ground up, the family now processes, mills, cups, and exports specialty coffees directly to some of the best roasters in the world, and has garnered the coveted Cup of Excellence award multiple times, the latest being in 2017.
One of their specialities is meticulously prepared coffees of the Pacamara variety. Onyx is offering four microlots of these particular beans: natural, honey, hybrid-washed, and washed. This washed coffee is just what it sounds like--the coffee cherries are pulped to remove skin and pulp, then allowed to “ferment” to remove any mucilage clinging to the beans before being sent through the final washing and subsequent processing. Washed coffees offer a clean, uniform cup with citric acidities and a sweet, caramelized note.
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.
