About Kona Coffee Beans
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„In the process Kona has become a bit pricey, perhaps too pricey when compared with some of the world's great and undervalued coffees, such as the best Sumatran, Guatemalan, and Kenyan. Furthermore, its cost has created an equivalent to the Jamaican Blue Mountain syndrome: We now have commercial roasters producing Kona style coffee, Kona blend coffee, and coffee vaguely labeled Kona that probably consists in large part of Central American beans. In 1991 most "Kona Blend" coffees sold in Hawaii contained at most 5 percent actual Kona. Proposed regulations up the minimum percentage required by law to 51 percent.“http://www.timeforcoffee.com/coffeetime/ country2.asp - Cached
Tea & Coffee 04/03 - Coffee With Aloha Spirit: The 32nd Annual Kona Coffee Cultural Festival
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„If you are lucky enough to find your way to Kona on Hawaii’s Big Island, and you take a drive past the crystal blue waters and lush trees bursting with succulent fruit and brightly-colored flowers, delicate breezes blowing through your hair - take a deep whiff. You’ll discover that the delicious scent of roasting Kona coffee is in the air everywhere here, as there are over 650 estate and commercial Kona coffee farms whose beans are being roasted to perfection throughout the area. Kona is some of the most sought-after and expensive coffee in the world, a gourmet and specialty coffee item relished by honeymooners and coffee connoisseurs alike.“http://www.teaandcoffee.net/0403/coffee.htm - Cached
The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide
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„However, retail sales of Kona coffee continue to be rife with dubious marketing practices. Commercial roasters produce Kona style coffee, Kona blend coffee, and Hawaiian hotels brew coffee vaguely labeled Kona that probably consists in large part of (often low-grade) Central America beans. In fact, it is difficult to find a good cup of Kona coffee in Kona, and flat-out impossible in hotels. The colorful bags of Kona coffee sold in Hawaiian supermarkets and airport gift stores are almost always poor quality and stale.“http://www.coffeereview.com/reference.cfm?id=63 - Cached
Amazon.com: Gourmet Food: Handcrafted 100% Pure Estate Kona Coffee - GOLD - From Aloha Island - 8 oz Whole Bean - 'Truly One of the Greatest Coffees on Earth'- Modern Luxury Magazine
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„Many coffee brands that advertise their beans as "Kona" are blends, containing only ten percent beans from the highly desirable region, but these Aloha Island Gold beans are pure Kona, all from plants grown on the Big Island in the designated microclimate that produces some of the smoothest coffee beans in the world. While the Aloha brand may not be Hawaii's best, it is certainly one of the more available brands on the mainland. Store in the freezer to maintain optimal freshness, and grind the beans immediately before brewing.“http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/ b0000e6i02?v=glance - Cached
„From late August through January, the Kona coffee farmer is singularly focused on bringing in the ripe red coffee cherry, processing the cherry into coffee beans, and preparing for sale or storage of their coffee. Most Kona coffee farmers sell fresh picked coffee cherry, but there is a trend for farmers to add value by processing, drying, milling and even roasting. More than 100 private coffee labels are attached to Kona coffee.“http://www.hawaiicoffeeassoc.org/kona.htm - Cached
The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide
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„Essentially, the Kona-bashers position is that Kona is a perfectly decent but hardly exceptional coffee so lacking in distinction that many of the Americas leading cuppers failed to distinguish it from much cheaper Central America coffees during the recent scandal in which a green coffee dealer regularly sold Costa Rica and Panama beans inside Kona bags. Hence, Kona is wildly overpriced and consumers are being duped either by memories of trade winds or by simple name-dropped snobbery.“http://www.coffeereview.com/article.cfm?id=50 - Cached
„ If coffee is grown in any other district of the Big Island, it is called “Hawaiian” coffee, and as Kona beans have been fetching some of the highest prices in the world over the last few years, demonstrating to many islanders just how popular and profitable Hawaiian coffees can be, other areas of the Big Island have become more attractive for farming.“http://www.freshcup.com/sep03_hawaii.htm - Cached
„If the only way you can move the coffee then appears to be discounting it, you’re losing money. Green beans, on the other hand, have more of a shelf life, so if you splurge and buy a bag of Kona coffee, you can roast it pound by pound, five pounds at a time, what have you. You can roast it to order. Your options in the case of inventory control, abound.“http://www.freshcup.com/sep03_fire.htm - Cached
CoffeeGeek - Coffee: General Discussion, Has anyone ordered from Maui Coffee Roasters?
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„Any responsible local roaster will have pure Kona coffee beans. The roasters buy 125# sacks, sample roast the product, cup the sample roasts and then batch roast. Kona beans from your local roaster will be much fresher than beans roasted in Hawaii and then shipped to the states over a 5-10 day timeline.“http://www.coffeegeek.com/forums/coffee/general/ 95285 - Cached
Evaluation of Green Coffee Samples
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„Flat Taste : I had been buying on a repeated basis, Kona coffee beans at $5/lb + transportation. A new shipment arrived that was not consistent with the previous shipments; it was flat. I immediately inquired with the Kona supplier.“http://www.sweetmarias.com/ article.sivetz.greencoffee.html - Cached