Coffee Description
Incredible acidities and sugars reminiscent of peach, apricot, black currant, and other stone fruits show up in this gorgeous coffee. It features creamy, almost velvety mouthfeel paired with honey-like sweetness to create a level of comfort that is extremely unusual in Kenya coffees.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
SL28
Process
Washed
Elevation
2050 masl
Region
Nyeri
About Gachatha Factory of Kenya
As they say, 4th time is the charm, and this beautiful coffee certainly bears that out as for the fourth year we've carried coffee from the famed Gachatha (Gah - cha - the )wet mill, and this is the best harvest we have tasted to date! made up of 1150 farmers, Gachatha Farmers Cooperative Society has been managed by Jane Nyawira for over 12 years now. It is rare to see a manager work for such a long time and shows that dedication and consistency always help provide a great cup.
Located 100 miles north of Nairobi, the cooperative is in the famous coffee growing region of Nyeri. There they utilize the elevation of the Aberdare Mountains and water from the Kangunu river. This station has consistently produced incredibly sweet, complex, bright coffees, and we continue to ask marketers and reps to bid on these at the auction on our behalf.
Nyeri, Kenya
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.
