Are you a coffee lover? The you should experience the taste of fresh Hawaiian Kona coffee. While Kona coffee’s are higher priced than other coffee blends, this coffee is worth the price. The unique balance of Hawaii’s best Kona coffee is simply unmatched. True coffee lovers know, and have known for a long time, that one of the best and most flavorful coffee in the world is Kona coffee, made from beans that are grown in Northern slopes of Hawaii and Oahu.
After all, everybody around the world purchases this specific kind of coffee. The climate, which is made up of beautiful bright mornings and humid afternoons, is perfect for growing unique flavorful coffee.
Cuttings from Brazil were transplanted and used to grow the trees from which we get our gourmet Kona coffee beans today. In the 1800′s, Hawaii saw Samuel Reverend Ruggles bring the first try of it’s kind to the island. Because the weather and soil in Hawaii are highly conducive to crop production, many opportunistic farmers grow beans on large plantations. There are more than 2,300 acres where fresh gourmet Kona coffee beans are grown. Kona coffee cultivation is now so successful that about two million pounds of the beans are harvested per year.
Every February through March, the Kona tree blooms. These blooms, called Kona snow, are visible as tiny white flowers. Then small green berries pop up by early spring; However, by mid-summer they have already turned to a ruby red fruit and exhibit similar qualities to ripe cherries. It is a right time for the “fruit” to be harvested. One of the things that make fresh, gourmet Kona coffee so exceptional is that each bean is carefully, hand-picked.
Within 24 hours of the fruit being harvested it is put through an apparatus that separates the pulpy matter from the bean itself. The beans will ferment. Let them set for a half-day at low altitudes, and a full day at higher altitudes. After rinsing, the beans are spread out on a type of drying rack to dry out completely, which usually takes one to two weeks. The dry beans are then stored on parchment. Interestingly, to produce just one pound of fresh, gourmet Kona coffee, it takes approximately eight pounds of fruit.
If you pay attention to the characteristics of the Kona coffee seeds, you will be able to pick out the the fresh, gourmet Kona coffee. For example, There is two beans for each cherry or fruit, with one side flat oand one oval. The single, round bean found per cherry in some varieties is known as a Type II bean. After that, the beans undergo further grading based on several criteria, including size, type, bean moisture levels and purity. With fresh, gourmet Kona coffee, you know you are purchasing a higher quality or grade of the Kona bean.
