Hawaii Coffee Blog & FAQ about Hawaiian coffees

How Does Rain Affect Coffee?

How Does Rain Affect Coffee?

A few weeks ago we received a good question about how rainfall affects coffee production, quality, and growth. For Puna coffee lovers, it's a perti...

10% Hawaiian Blends & Deceptive Labeling

Yes, the brand of excellence! And also the brands of counterfeit Hawaiian blends, exploitation, and deceptive labeling.

And the winner is… “Accidental Coffee Farm”

Each month we share new Hawaiian coffees with our Wild Coffee Lovers club members. On this month members enjoyed an elegant Puna coffee few have tr...

Hawaiian Pink Bourbon!

The Grand Champion of the 2013 Hawaii Statewide Cupping Competition: Puna Pink Bourbon! This post is from a series of letters sent to members of ou...

Coffee Blossom Tea

For just a few short days the farm fills with an intoxicating perfume of jasmine, and we have a limited window to quickly & carefully harvest t...

The World's Best Hotel Coffee is at the Four Seasons Hualalai

Two years ago Big Island Coffee Roasters and the management at Four Seasons Hualalai began overhauling their coffee program with the goal of offeri...

Holiday Gift Guide: 12 Best Coffee Roasters in the USA

"The dynamic duo of Kelleigh Stewart and Brandon Damitz, of Big Island Coffee Roasters, offers up coffees carefully sourced from all over the Hawai...

Coffee, Chemicals & You

While we don't choose to use conventional pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides on our coffee, we profoundly understand why one would. When a farme...

Is your Hawaiian Coffee Organic?

Too often we hear producers claim their Hawaiian coffee is organic, when we know that it's not. In fact, very few Hawaiian coffee farms are organic...

Drip Brewer Buying Guide

Shopping for a new drip brewer? There are hundreds you shouldn't buy, but only a few you should.

Growing Hawaiian Coffee in the Wild, Wild West

It's the Hawaii tourist brochures won’t show you. Known best for its molten lava, and certainly not it's Hawaiian coffee. This is the wild West. Th...

Hawaiian Coffee: The State of the Blend | PART 2

Under what circumstances will Hawai’i allow the use of its name and branding power on a bag of coffee? The answer is up to you

Decoding Hawaiian Coffee, from Fancy to Prime

The grading standards for Hawaiian Coffee are almost as confusing to coffee growers as they are to coffee buyers. In this article we'll simplify an...