Fresh Roasted Coffee Beans

100% Hawaii Moloka‘i Peaberry Coffee

1 Pound Fresh Roasted Coffee Beans

Specifics:

• Name: 100% Moloka‘i Coffee
• Origin: Hawaii
• Region: Moloka‘i
• Farm: Coffees of Hawai‘i Moloka‘i plantation
• Varietal: Arabica
• Altitude: ?
• Processing Method: Washed

Cupping Notes:

An impressively sweet, cocoa- and dark-chocolate toned coffee with a silky mouthfeel and gentle acidity…a hint of the chocolate-cocoa note persists pleasantly in the finish.

About this Coffee:

Moloka‘i trees are rooted in the vivid red earth of the central island’s upper slopes. Kualapu’u is the traditional name for this area—”sweet potato hill.” The sweet potato (’uala) is a staple food of Hawaiian culture, grown just about everywhere that the land was too dry to support taro (kalo). So the name suggests that this land has been fertile farm country for a long, long time.

Anyone who knows Hawai‘i well will tell you that there’s something very different, very special about Moloka‘i. Always has been.
Legends tell us that the people here were skilled in sorcery, magic spells—call it, harnessing the power of prayer. You didn’t mess with Moloka‘i. The people were known to be both fierce and ingenious. This is the island where hula originated. And here you see the remains of one of the most amazing civil engineering projects of pre-contact Polynesia—dozens of submerged stone aquaculture pens that run along the southeast shoreline. The largest of these, Keawanui, encloses 55 acres of shallow seawater by means of a 2,000-foot-long wall.
Today a spirit of independence and rugged individualism still prevails. The percentage of native Hawaiians is far higher here than on the other islands. People here tend to resist modernization. People live outdoors a lot—hunt, fish, farm. Visitors are welcome, but they don’t find much in the way of tourist attractions. There isn’t a traffic light on the island. No building taller than a coconut tree.
A lot of nothing, some would say, especially after sunset—thicker darkness than most people have ever seen, more stars than most people ever suspected are in the sky, more silence than you’ve ever heard.