This is the Gateway blend from ONA Coffee . I believe it’s their blend that started it all for ONA and used to be called The Founder.
I’ve had this before a while ago and remember it not standing out for me too much. It was fine, but nothing special.
A few weeks ago I was going through my freezer and found a small sample of it given to me by a friend.
So I ground it and pulled a shot. Unfortunately (I felt at the time) I’d ground it too fine and it poured very slowly. I just it off after 40 seconds when it had hit a 1:1 ratio for a ristretto.
And it was delicious!! Funky, sweet, with really lovely berry flavours.
So I ordered a bag of it to see if this wasn’t a fluke. And it wasn’t. But it really does need a longer extraction time.
So for me, this coffee, 20 in 20 out with a longer (40 seconds) extraction time. Amazing.
