News — Kona Coffee

Twenty-four years since our founding, the Honolulu Coffee Experience Center will be opening as the flagship and 36th store in our company which includes a Café, Roastery, Bakery, Gift Shop, Cupping Room and the first Kona Coffee Experience Tour in the world. Our award winning products and highly trained barista team, services and state of the art coffee equipment including a completely refurbished circa 1944 roaster Probat UG 22 will be the focal point of the Experience Center. The grand opening of the Honolulu Coffee Experience Center will commence late this summer; stay tuned for regular updates as we progress with...

     Kona coffee has become synonymous with Hawaii and with good reason: Hawaii is the only region in the United States capable of producing the Arabica beans that are used to make Kona coffee. Our Kona coffee farm provides afternoon cloud cover, nutrient-rich volcanic soil and tropical rains which makes this location an ideal place for our Kona coffee farm to produce and cultivate our highly sought after premium 100% Kona Coffee.      While the Kona region plays a key role in harvesting Arabica beans, it is important to know that not all Kona coffee farms operate the same,...

Here's the latest Kona Coffee farm report from our Licensed Q Grader and resident farmer extraordinaire, Paul Massard: "We are still engaged in heavy harvesting on the farm, and from what I have seen, we are one of the last farms still harvesting due to our higher elevation. We are taking random samples of the picking quality to come up with a benchmark we will use next year. We are also taking random samples from the pickers' bags and gauging the amount of green coffee they have picked using a graduated cylinder. We aim to have pickers filling the majority...

They say the sense of smell is one of the strongest senses that is connected to memory. A simple whiff of a scent in passing is enough to trigger the most vivid of memories. If so, what better way to remember your Hawaiian vacation than by enjoying a cup of Hawaiian coffee at home.