Hawaii Coffee Blog & FAQ about Hawaiian coffees

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

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...

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...

Coffee Roasting Levels

When choosing how light or dark to roast a coffee, we must take into account its origin, its processing, and finally what flavors we want to showca...

Kona-ish Coffee: 10% Kona Blends & Deceptive Labeling

Counterfeit and 10% Hawaiian blends are successful only by virtue of the brands they exploit. And those brands have been earned through the very ha...