Coffee Description
Black currant brightness, smokey burnt sugar, cinnamon and deep chocolatey sweetness all combine to create a sensory experience that embraces the relaxed feeling of the holidays and yet keeps coffee sippers on their toes.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Medium/Dark
Variety
SL28
Process
Washed
Elevation
2000 masl
Region
Kirinyaga
About Krampas Holiday Origin Blend of Kenya
Krampus (noun).
Kram•pus
1) A European myth of a half-goat, half-demon that is St. Nicholas’ companion and punishes naughty children during Christmas season.
2) The name for one of the delicious holiday coffees from Onyx Coffee Lab.
Let's be honest; not everyone has been nice this year. Even us. Despite this, all of us deserve some joy, and so for the holidays, the savvy folks at Onyx Coffee Lab have created a sweet and smoky holiday single origin coffee called Krampus. Excellent for you or your enemies, whether it is your nemesis in the accounting department or your neighbor on the corner.
Back by popular demand, this single origin blend of coffees comes the Nyeri region in Kenya, and developed in the roast to a level of perfection of which even Santa would approve. Giving coal is so 2017. Stick some Krampus in their stocking instead.
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.
