Hawaii Coffee Blog & FAQ about Hawaiian coffees

Coffee, Chemicals & You

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...

How we became Hawaii coffee farmers, and how you can too

The number one question we get asked is how we got started farming coffee in Hawaii. So here it is: the cost of the farm, what it was like in the b...

Tasting Hawaii: Notes on our 2016/17 line of Hawaiian coffees

Each season we taste several dozen lots to select the best coffees that we've cupped from that region, that year. And this year we thought you'd en...

2014 Fresh Crop List: Ka’u Coffee

With a new year come fresh crops and new coffees - and we have some delicious Ka'u lots lined up for 2014.

Coffee Review: 94 for Honeyed Yellow Caturra

Kenneth Davids for Coffee Review: “Elegant flower-bomb. Exhilarating, refreshing meadow flowers, roasted cacao nib, almond in aroma and cup. Delica...

Grand Champion? We Won? We Won!

August, 2013. Yes, our coffee earned the top score as Grand Champion for the state of Hawaii. I know it can sound a bit surprising because we’re ve...

What makes “the best” Hawaiian coffee different?

Let’s say we have two Hawaiian coffees of the same coffee varietal, the same region, and harvested on the same day. Blindfolded, you taste them bot...

2014 Fresh Crop List: Puna Coffee

I have a secret. It's a test run we've been trialing on a small bag of Puna coffee. We're often researching, testing, and tasting things, but this ...