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Onyx Coffee Lab | Monarch

$52.00

Dark Chocolate | Molasses | Red Wine | Dried Berries | Thick & Syrupy

Monarch is Onyx's most developed roast and conveys a flavor profile intentionally designed to work well with milk. Cream and plant based beverages mix with ease, creating a rich, decadent flavor. It involves a natural, sugar-dense coffee that binds to the fats and creates multiple complex caramelized notes during the roasting process. Look for dark chocolate and undertones of thick winey berries. Awesome as drip or espresso.

Note: This product is only available on Easyday in 2 lb. bags and ships directly from Onyx Coffee Lab in Bentonville, Arkansas to ensure freshness.

Dark Chocolate | Molasses | Red Wine | Dried Berries | Thick & Syrupy

Monarch is Onyx's most developed roast and conveys a flavor profile intentionally designed to work well with milk. Cream and plant based beverages mix with ease, creating a rich, decadent flavor. It involves a natural, sugar-dense coffee that binds to the fats and creates multiple complex caramelized notes during the roasting process. Look for dark chocolate and undertones of thick winey berries. Awesome as drip or espresso.

Note: This product is only available on Easyday in 2 lb. bags and ships directly from Onyx Coffee Lab in Bentonville, Arkansas to ensure freshness.

From the Lab

Monarch is one of two blends that Onyx re-creates year-round, and the one they choose to serve at all of their physical cafes as their "house espresso". It's one of our all-time favorites as both an espresso and a more developed drip coffee. 

Monarch is bold and defiant. When tasted as pure espresso or with high amounts of milk, it displays sugar caramelization to the fullest and is a perfect expression of "human-made" flavors developed through roasting. It’s a beautiful image of traditional espresso with modern sourcing. 

To achieve the blend, Onyx sources seasonal natural processed coffee from Ethiopia and a washed coffee from Latin America to showcase sugar and complexity. When tasting, look for bittersweet dark chocolate, a mulled wine acidic sweetness, molasses, and a hint of dried berries on the finish. The coffee is extremely heavy and dense with a velvety-like mouthfeel.

Blend Approach

Let's just say Onyx's approach to creating coffee blends is a little different (on the obsessive side) than most.

Instead of simply combining coffees from regions that will theoretically "work well together", Onyx starts at the end and works backwards to the source: pre-defining an exacting blend profile consisting of the specific acidity, sugar, fat, and tasting profile they want to invent -- then blind cupping as many independent coffees as it takes to achieve it. (The only hard rule being you'll never find an Onyx blend with more than three varieties at a time.)

The mad genius of this is that it allows Onyx to dial in a "year-round" blend like Monarch without compromising their commitment to 100% seasonal sourcing. E.g., while Monarch's overall profile stays consistent, the unique combo of varieties, farms, and terroir that Onyx draws on to create it changes with the season every 3-4 months(!!).

Yes, this is a flex. It takes a constant commitment to profiling, cupping, sourcing...and then doing it all over again. But it means the coffee you get from Onyx is always in season, always designed to extract exactly how they intended it, and is one of the (many) things that makes them great. 

The current Monarch blend comes from Colombia N.G.E.B. and Ethiopia Biloya Natural.