100% Kona Coffee

Posted May 25, 2010 By admin

Don’t be fooled by 10% blends! 100% Kona Coffee is the real deal. Let the Kona Coffee Farmer’s Association help you identify REAL Kona Coffee.

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  • XkonastephenX says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    @djjboi Eh wat? No …
    @djjboi Eh wat? No matta. L8z.

  • djjboi says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    @konastephen …
    @konastephen Nothing was ever said about religion, I’m trying to figure out where your coming from maybe you are filled with white guilt sub-consciously. and if you read the comment I’m simply making a simile to the fact about latinos in California. I don’t live in California. Maybe the problem is English is your second language.

  • metaspherz says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    @konastephen

    ” …
    @konastephen

    “You’ve probably never had any Kona that’s been properly processed.”

    I get my green Kona beans from Sweet Marias so you might be correct. I also buy Kauai green beans for 1/3 the price of Kona and the cup is delicious as well.
    The way the beans are roasted makes for different flavors in the cup. I just bought a new coffee roaster (Behmor 1600) and I’ll be interested in how well the Kona roasts. I expect it to cup very well indeed.

  • konastephen says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    @Fishpigg Chicory. …
    @Fishpigg Chicory. Ptaw, ptew. cough, cough. ugh.

  • konastephen says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    @metaspherz What …
    @metaspherz What really makes the difference in taste is whether or not the beans have been fermented and the outer skin removed. You’ve probably never had any Kona that’s been properly processed.

  • konastephen says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    @djjboi Well …
    @djjboi Well since we’re getting all religious about it, let’s point out that most of the “haoles” these days are brown-skinned and some even have hawaiian blood. As to most of the pickers being Latinos… not on any of the farms I’ve worked. There’s more ten times more Marshallese than there is Mexicans. There’s probably more “blue eyed and blond” people working than Mexicans. Maybe you’ve been in California too long time.

  • djjboi says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    @konastephen@ …
    @konastephen@konastephen@konastephen You make it sound like we don’t know there are haoles there. We were just commenting on the fact that why is there no other color of people in the film. Especially when in the old days caucasians represented the minority amount in the islands. That’s all we were talking about. It’s like looking at a California produce commercial and seeing European Americans picking tomatoes. Sure there are lighter skinned farmers but the majority is Latinos. Cuz!

  • konastephen says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    @blurvis Not quite …
    @blurvis Not quite a complete picture. Some of the land is own by Kamehameha Schools (federally-funded race-based private schools for descendants of “Hawaiians”). More of the land is owned by Bishop Estates, the trust of the descendants of some of the early missionaries. But most of the land is owned outright in fee simple however, thanks to the many original Hawaiian land-owners who cashed in back when Hawaiian law was first changed to allow them to sell their land freely.

  • konastephen says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    @Ollie&DJboi It’s …
    @Ollie&DJboi It’s true that Kona’s coffee tradition is deep. The reason it’s such rare (and expensive) coffee is that the first plants brought here came directly from north Africa. The true Kona strain is one of the purest surviving descendants of the original African plant. As to race … one of the great things about Kona is that it’s more evenly mixed than most of Hawaii. Not everyone around here who’s “born and raised” for generations is brown-skinned local. There’s haole-local too, cuz!

  • djjboi says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    @OllieBrown I know …
    @OllieBrown I know right how come everyone in this haole blue eyed and blonde, I come from a family thats been doing it for many generations. If you go to the Kona museum all you’ll see is Japanese and filipino farmers growing coffee. Even the farmers association was started along with Hawaii Community Bank in Kona by Japanese farmers.

  • OllieBrown says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    Oh, I know Kona is …
    Oh, I know Kona is better. I just don’t think it’s $20/lb better. That’s all.

    Thanks for the info. :-)

  • blurvis says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    Native Hawaiians …
    Native Hawaiians did not introduce coffee to the region, later settlers did so. Most of them were European. But what’s interesting, most of the land where Kona coffee is grown is actually owned by the Kamehameha Schools Trust and is only leased to the current farmers. And if you think that Kenya AA or any form of Columbian can stand up to a cup of medium roast Kona, you don’t know much about coffee.

  • OllieBrown says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    So, umm, why are …
    So, umm, why are all the people in this video blond haired, blue-eyed looking anglicans? Is Kona a native Hawaiian tradition or was it just imposed on the polynesians by continental US entrepreneurs? Kona is delicious, but $25/lb delicious!! I’ll take a $6/lb Kenya AA or Columbian Excelsio any day!

  • metaspherz says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    I enjoy 100% Kona …
    I enjoy 100% Kona coffee but I only buy the green beans & roast my own. It takes full city roast very well. Ocassional drinking is OK & unblended it’s NOT for espresso. I use a 40% Costa Rican full city + or Vienna blend to get the aroma & flavor I prefer. IMO the Jamaican Blue Mountain is a much richer tasting bean than Kona. But the Ethiopian Yirgacheffe is 1/4 the cost & tastes amazing too. Fresh roasted is always better than stale beans that’ve been sitting on a shelf for 6 months..

  • Fishpigg says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    has any one heard …
    has any one heard about a coffee that has an added ingredient that really helps wakes you up ?I think it might be from Indonesia or Thailand I had a cup once at an event I was attending but failed to remember what it was called

  • wsugaimd says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    It also takes 8 lbs …
    It also takes 8 lbs of red cherry coffee that needs to be pulped, fermented, washed, then dried in the sun for several days depending on the weather, then chaffed, polished, sorted, then roasted, ground if desired, then bagged and sold. That 8 lbs will take 20 to 30 minutes to pick by hand will produce 1 pound of roasted coffee, and thats why its so expensive compared to blends…which may have been picked by machine.

  • wsugaimd says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    Remember too that …
    Remember too that Kona Coffee itself comes in different grades, the rarest is the “Peaberry”, next is the “Extra Fancy” , followed by “Fancy”, and then the “supermarket” grades, #1 and prime.

    Many of the “estate” coffees are great but many do not sort the green bean into these catagories…and the overall taste may be diluted as the lower grades get mixed in.

  • wsugaimd says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    Thanks for the …
    Thanks for the great video. Now only if we could get the message out. My family has been in the Kona Coffee business since 1910. And my sons are still helping on the farm as 5th generation farmers.

    Remember too that Kona Coffee is Caffea arabica. Many of the larger plantations in Kauai, Oahu, and Maui grow the species Caffea robusta and its not of the same species. They cannot be cross pollinated. Robusta is harsher.

  • betzeeboston says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    I have the same …
    I have the same package, and I went to their website, it’s actually only 791 Acres.

  • KingKcoffee says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    I love Kona Coffee. …
    I love Kona Coffee. My family owns a Kona Coffee Farm and i agree the Kona Coffee is truly the best coffee in the world.

  • EmersonsPage says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    I just paid $24.00 …
    I just paid $24.00 for 8 oz. of “100%” Jamaican Blue Mtn but it was clearly adulterated. In small print on the side it said made with Jamaican and “select Aribica beans”. Beware of the “100%” claim, its bogus. True estate coffee is next to impossible to find in American stores.

  • oldphoque says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    If it is a blend, …
    If it is a blend, you will know by taste if you have ever been to Hawaii. But if it is a blend, it “should” say on the package somewhere or say 100%. The price should be a dead giveaway too. Nobody, not even Costco is gonna blowout $25+ per lb. coffe. Sams does sell Hawaiian coffee from I think Maui, real cheap but it doesn`t taste that good and is dehydrated. Very dry and old tasting!

  • BennyCorleone says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    U forgot one thing …
    U forgot one thing ~ Where do you buy it? :O

  • cxsheppard says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    Sorry to say, but …
    Sorry to say, but it cannot be cheaper. Kona is not a third world country – workers get paid US rates. It costs $4 a finished pound just to pay pickers, plus all the US rates, rents, utilities, fertilizer, pruning etc. We calculate the base cost of a pound of roasted Kona coffee, without any profit at all to the farmer yet, at a minimum of $11 a pound. Your best bet is to buy farmer-direct, no middle man to pay, only 60 cents a cup – see the Kona Coffee Farmers Association

  • cxsheppard says:
    May 25, 2010 at 4:03 am

    Greenwell is a …
    Greenwell is a processor (a good one) buys coffee from many small farms, so their coffee is a blend, of 100% Kona, not a blend with foreign coffees. However there are more than 150 small farms that produce 100% Kona coffee, using only beans from their farm, estate coffee. And it IS Kona coffee. In Hawaii, all foreign beans have to have an import license, so we know EXACTLY who is importing to make blend, and it is not the estate farms. Buy direct from an estate and get the best Kona ever :>)