Coffee Description
OK, so you need a quick burst of energy, but your bedtime is in three hours. You also have unbelievably high standards & brag to all my friends that you only brew single origin coffees. You, my friend, need a POWER NAP. You already love our Aponte Village honey-processed coffee from Colombia. Well, we secretly had a portion of the Aponte harvest decaffeinated through a natural sugar cane process. Using both, we created a “half-caf” blend just for you. 50% of our beloved Aponte Village and 50% of our Decaf Aponte Village. So is it a blend? Is it a single origin?… Welcome to this tasty paradox.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Medium
Variety
Caturra
Process
Honey
Elevation
2100 masl
Region
Nariño
About Aponte Village Community of Colombia
Welcome back, old friend. Aponte Village, out of Nariño, Colombia, has become a staple for us over the years. It has been a foundation in our Geometry blend and a perfect comfort coffee for filter lovers.
From the village of Aponte deep in the Juanambú canyon, this coffee is produced by the indigenous community of the Inga. This group belonged to the northernmost part of the Inca Empire, who colonized the south of Colombia in the late XIV century, a bit before the Spanish came. The land here is communal, and its population is ruled by a “cabildo,” a group of elders that make sure that their ancestral laws and traditions are upheld.
Nariño, Colombia
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.
