100% Kona Coffee
blurvis asked:
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.
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.
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!
U forgot one thing ~ Where do you buy it? :O
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
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 :>)
Hi Benny
There is NO Kona coffee plantation of 1100 acres. The entire Kona coffee belt is 2290 acres (State statistics) and has approximately 635 farms of an average of 5 acres each. there are some larger farms now but none that even come close to thousands of acres. Sorry :
I get mine from Costco in a gold bag. It has a Parry Estate Seal on the front of it. 100% Kona Coffee Direct From Our Fields. It also says its Kona’s largest coffee plantation: 1100 acres. I hope this isn’t a blend
Here is my take on the matter. If it does not come from Greenwell Farms I say they are all a blend.
Greenwell has been making 100% Kona coffee since 1850 they are the real deal.
Take a tour of their farm and tell me if I am wrong . They are numero uno.
It’s true Kona Coffee is the best in the world. My family lived along the border of the Kona Coffee plantation in Kealakekua.
Thank you for posting this. I am a big-time coffee drinker. I am going to look for 100% Kona coffee.
Kona coffee is the best hands down. I prefer it over blue mountain which is way higher in price even though it is rarely blended. I know the demand is high but Kona coffee is still too expensive to buy outright. This needs to be worked on. I used to be able to buy it at $9 per pound a few short years ago. Not today. If anyone has a better connection, I would apreciate it.
The State Attorney General of Hawai’i is attempting to supress this video!!! Presumably at the request of the big blenders (the 10% Kona bunch), they have issued a request to the Kona Coffee Farmer’s Association indicating their desire to have this video removed. They have not yet requested YouTube to remove it, but somehow they DID get my REAL name. I think YouTube “outed” me to the Hawai’i AGs office without due process. More on this as it develops.
This is a wonderful video. It says nothing different from the juice commercials urging consumers to beware of 10% juice drinks trying to imitate 100% pure juice.
The big offense is to criticize agribusiness who rely on consumer deception to maximize profits. What we see is that 100% truth is offensive. Thank you for the wonderful education and the worlds best coffee!! Mahaloa Kona coffee growers!!!
Thanks for the comments. Just to clarify a couple of points, this video was produced by the Hawai’i State Ag Department as a promotion of 100% Kona Coffee. This is in response to the actions of the coffee blenders who use 10% Kona and dilute it with Columbian and seek to call their coffee “Kona Coffee”.
As for the question of quality, I agree there are plenty of good coffees in the world, but the two regarded as the best are 100% Kona and Jamaica Blue Mountain. Accept not substitutes
Very informative and educational. I just wonder what this means for the small Kona growers not in the coffee growers assoc. whether by choice or other, I bet their 100 % Kona coffee is still as good, maybe even better and def comparable.
Well done publicity video. Kona coffee is very good but to say it is the best in the world is only an opinion. I have tasted coffee from the Southern districts (Kau) of Hawaii that I thought was comparable.
Mahalos for the great content! This video is now playing on HawaiiPictures(.)com. Check the chat room on the bottom of the home page and feel free to embed the room on your blog or site.