BLACK APPLE ESPRESSO

MEMBERS ONLY PRICING One Time $20.99 Twice per Month $18.99Weekly $16.99 Coffee Type:  Whole Bean Tasting Notes: Black Cherry - Dark Chocolate - Juicy Orange  Blend Components: This is a three-part blend composed of a semi-washed coffee from El Salvador, a honey processed coffee from Sumatra, and a sun-dried natural from Ethiopia. This combination makes for a juicy, sweet, complex, balanced espresso on its own, or the perfect base for a cortado. Airship’s flagship espresso blend is named after the award winning Arkansas Black Apple. The apple variety was discovered in the 1870s in the Brathwaite orchard along Black Apple Creek just about a mile north of Airship’s coffee bar in downtown Bentonville. It was propagated in the Brathwaite nursery, then commercialized and went on to win first place at an exhibition in Paris France in 1900 and then in 1904, took first place at the World’s Fair in St. Louis. By 1919 Northwest Arkansas was producing more than 5 million bushels of apples per y