Hawaiian Kona Prime – Green Unroasted

Taste: Our 100% Kona Prime coffee is a powerful, richly acidic representative of this bean with indescribable full-bodied mouthfeel that justifies its price. Treat yourself to this rare experience when celebrating a special occasion, perhaps?

Roast: Follow your heart on this one.  We can’t imagine ever taking this bean past Medium (City Roast) to properly experience everything it  has to offer.  But hey, that’s just us!

About: This coffee comes from Kona, arguably the most famous coffee-growing region of Hawaii. It is produced by Kona Premium Coffee Co.  We are so lucky to be able to source this coffee directly from the farm.

Kona Premium Coffee Co. is the Kona District’s premiere coffee company. The estate is located on the slopes of an active volcano, Mount Hualalai.

Kona Coffees have built a reputation as the world’s highest quality. Using age-old processes dating back centuries and incorporating the latest in state of the art technology, Kona Premium consistently delivers a superior coffee with an unforgettable, mellow flavor.

The only commercially grown coffee in the United States of America is also found in its most remote state, the group of islands collectively known as Hawaii, which joined the union in 1959 as the last incorporated state. Its history with coffee goes back much further, however: The first plants were brought to O’ahu in 1813, though sugar far outshone coffee as an agricultural output for the farmers. In the late 1820’s, Bourbon variety coffees were brought to the Big Island, and the next decade saw the establishment of the first coffee-focused estates.

Coffee, like wine, comes with a host of conflicting information: Does price equate to quality, or not? The answer is complicated, and coffees from Hawaii are no exception: Certainly there are beautiful (if fairly mild) cups to be had from the islands, and innovations in processing techniques and attention to detail have done wonders for bringing truly fine Hawaiian coffees to market. However, as the only coffee grown in a developed nation—as such, protected by American labor and wage regulations—and in such small supply due to the limited available farmland, coffees from this island state are naturally going to come with a heftier price tag than others.

Most lovers of Hawaiian coffees love their balanced, mild and clean profile, that classic Bourbon sweetness. Perhaps the soft nutty flavor recalls mornings spent on a honeymoon in an island breeze.

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