Coffee Description
Our quality control dude scrawled “A very unique coffee experience” on his notes for this coffee! This complex cup carries tangerine, vanilla bean, and the sweetness of raisins, dates, and caramelized brown sugar. It’s bright and sweet with juicy, buttery acidity, velvety body and savory nutty qualities.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
Other
Process
Washed
Elevation
1700 masl
Region
Huehuetenango
About Felipe Ramirez of Guatemala
Felipe Ramirez owns the lovely Finca Andrina, located in the north of Huehuetenango. Along with his sons, Carlos and Leonardo, Felipe has been planting new experimental varieties like this Maragocaturra, a hybrid of Maragogype and Caturra with great yield and quality. Coffee Lab was introduced to Felipe by their importer friends at Onyx Coffee. Yes, same basic name, but different companies who are close friends. In fact, Onyx imports all Onyx’s Guatemalan coffees.
After visiting Felipe Ramirez in March, viewing his operation at Finca Andrina, purchased this lot of his Maragocaturra harvest. Felipe is using a new fermentation technique involving a 36-hour dry fermentation, and Onyx Coffee Lab is excited to pursue an ongoing relationship with him and his special coffees.
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.
