Coffee Description
Flavor notes of strawberry and lime zest team up with panela in this sweet, approachable coffee. WIth fruity acidity and caramelized body, it’s a balanced, layered cup.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
Catuai
Process
Natural
Elevation
1700 masl
About Carlos Yanguez of Panama
Carlos Yangez inherited a parcel of land from his father where he grows both Catuai and Caturra. Located in the distant Renacimiento region, La Llorona Del Frente is a 9-hectare farm dedicated to coffee production. Last harvest they had 36,000 trees planted, which they hire 25 seasonal workers to pick during their main harvest. This coffee was harvested and delivered to Creativa mill, where it was naturally processed using their processing expertise.
We are extremely honored to release the first offering from Creativa Coffee District in Panama. CCD is a longterm project headed by our friends and legends, La Palma y El Tucán, known as producing the best of Colombia's coffees. A few years back, they started a small project in Boquete, Panama, bringing their innovative processing and quality control. We have had the pleasure to come alongside them to cup and work through each harvest until finally, in 2019, they have something spectacular that we bring to you.
Carlos Yanguez's coffee is the first of three other naturally processed micro-lots from Boquete, Panama, each featuring a different small producer who met extreme quality standards. These coffees are just the beginning of many artistic sensory experiences that will come from Creativa Coffee District. Celebrate years of work with us and the continued success of our producing partners Felipe, Sebastián, and Elisa.
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.
