Coffee Description
Rocking the line between show-off and approachable, this coffee pairs green apple acidity, pineapple-upside-down-cake, and brown sugar sweetness with ruby grapefruit and semi-sweet chocolate. Kiwi notes sparkle with Jolly Rancher-like intensity. Clean, with citrus underlying the syrupy body and a sweet tea aftertaste, this cup has an effervescent quality that is both bright and balanced.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
SL28
Process
Washed
Elevation
1825 meters masl
Region
Nyeri
About Smallholder producers of Kenya
In 1956, 250 coffee farmers launched the Othaya Farmers’ Cooperative Society between Mt. Kenya and the Aberdare Range. Now their membership is over 15,000 strong. Together grower members own 19 “factories,” (washing stations), including Kamoini from whence came this particular coffee. Together the members have adopted a holistic business management approach that creates strong social unity for their communities.
Among its benefits, OFCS has a farm supply store and nursery through which members can receive assistance with equipment, seedlings, and attend management workshops designed to help them improve the quality of their coffees and their lives . Sample roasting and cupping facilities are available at their Gatuyaini factory, where OFCS also runs its own complete dry milling facility. Here members can manage the hulling, sorting, and grading aspects of their own unique 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.
