Coffee Description
This exotic coffee launches with fragrances of marmalade and nectarine. In the cup, notes of hibiscus and cranberry are front and center, followed by subtle orange blossom, cranberry,and a hint of honey. Acidity is caramelized and sweetly tart.
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 masl
Region
Kirinyaga
About Kiriani Factory of Kenya
Thikagiki Farmers’ Cooperative may be small in comparison to most Kenyan coffee cooperatives, but there’s nothing small about the quality of coffees they’re producing. Though coffee production was down about 25% in Kenya, auction prices for the coffees with high cupping scores reached almost unprecedented levels.
The Kenya coffee market allows mills to sell directly to buyers, and also runs an excellent central auction, the Nairobi Coffee Exchange. Cooperatives often use this latter method to market their coffees. Every Tuesday during coffee harvest, the NCE holds auctions for that weeks’ “outturn.” Onyx Coffee Roasters goes for outturns between 14-21, the middle to end of harvest, for the most nutrient dense, best-tasting coffees like this one, OT-15.
Kirinyaga, 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.
