Coffee Description
This coffee launches with aromas of black currant, orange spice marmalade, and tea rose. In the cup, enjoy bright jammy berry, red wine, and candied grapefruit notes melded with complexity of sweetly tart acidity and velvety body. It’s a very articulate and full-flavored offering.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
SL28
Process
Washed
Elevation
1800-2100 masl
Region
Nyeri
About Smallholder producers of Kenya
Every year the Gachatha factory (wet mill) produces some of the best Kenya coffee, and this lot from outturn 19 lives up to that reputation (an outturn is a term used in East Africa to designate a batch of coffee from a specific mill or estate). The quality at Gachatha is due to the coffees brought into the mill by smallholder producers and also to the expertise of Jane Nyawira. Jane has managed the mill for over 12 years now, and her dedication and consistency is key to providing great coffees.
Gachatha factory is located about 100 miles north of the capital city of Nairobi in the famed Nyeri coffee region. Approximately 1150 farmers belong to the Gachatha Farmer Cooperative. The combination of high elevations in the Aberdare mountain range and clean water from the Kangunu river utilized in processing, this station consistently produces incredibly sweet, complex coffees.
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.