Kona Coffee FAQs-Roasting, Sourcing, and Shipping
Find answers to common questions about our 100% Kona coffees, roasting schedule, shipping times, and sourcing practices.
焦糖、羅望子、可可、香蕉,口感柔順,帶有酸澀感,餘韻醇厚。
2022 年厄瓜多羅布斯塔金杯獎第四名得主。
在推廣厄瓜多阿拉比卡金杯獎(一項類似卓越杯的咖啡競賽)二十多年後,ANECAFE 於 2016 年舉辦了厄瓜多首屆特種羅布斯塔金杯獎競賽。從第一屆競賽開始,我們就以評審和優勝咖啡買家的身份參與其中。
今年,我們採購了第四名得獎批次,一款來自 Gonzalo Pizarro 省 Calixto Rivera Narvaez 的蜜處理 Napopayomino 品種。我們之前也曾採購過他獲得第一名的咖啡。
這款蜜處理咖啡是由當地培育的 Napopayomino 品種生產。該品種的咖啡豆比其他品種更大,每年都在杯測比賽中多次獲得前幾名。這款咖啡完美展現了精心處理對該品種的潛力。濃郁滑順的口感,以及令人愉悅的水果和焦糖風味,餘韻帶有乾香蕉和香料的氣息。
我們建議使用義式濃縮咖啡機和/或法式濾壓壺沖泡這款優質咖啡。
蜜處理咖啡是一種咖啡處理方法,在乾燥過程中,咖啡櫻桃的果膠(也稱為「蜜」)會留在咖啡豆上一定量。這賦予咖啡一種甜美、複雜的風味,增添了其口感的層次。我們的厄瓜多特種羅布斯塔咖啡採用這種方法,打造出獨特迷人的沖泡體驗。
厄瓜多咖啡以其多樣化的風味聞名,這歸功於該國豐富多變的地形和氣候。通常,厄瓜多的咖啡傾向於濃郁醇厚的口感,帶有淡淡的黑巧克力和水果香氣。我們的厄瓜多特種羅布斯塔咖啡尤其提供豐富、均衡的風味和滑順的餘韻,咖啡鑑賞家一定會喜歡。
Kona Coffee FAQs-Roasting, Sourcing, and Shipping
Find answers to common questions about our 100% Kona coffees, roasting schedule, shipping times, and sourcing practices.
Kona coffee grows on the volcanic slopes of Hawai‘i Island, where mineral-rich soil, afternoon cloud cover, and slow cherry maturation create a naturally sweet and balanced cup. Our Kona Classic Medium is sourced from high-elevation farms and hand-harvested for clarity, smoothness, and elegant sweetness.
Yes — this roast is Authentic Kona coffee made exclusively from North Kona district-grown coffees, never blended. Our Kona coffees comes from small farms at the highest altitudes in the region.
Medium roasts highlight Kona’s signature profile: gentle sweetness, soft citrus, toasted almond, and milk chocolate. The result is a balanced, approachable cup ideal for everyday brewing.
This coffee shines in pour-over, drip, and French press. Use filtered water just off the boil and a medium grind for maximum clarity and sweetness. If you are looking for a Hawaiian coffee for espresso use we recommend our Hawai‘i Island Blend
Kona is the highest labor cost coffee region in the world. Wages for farm workers here are 15-20x higher than almost all other coffee producing countries. Limited and expensive land, hand-picking, and high production costs create a naturally small supply each year — especially from high-elevation farms like those we partner with.
We roast and fulfill all of our coffee orders in Hilo, Hawai'i.
We roast in small batches using a Diedrich IR12 roasting machine.
We source an array of the top specialty coffees worldwide that appeal to an array of different palates.
If at any point you have difficulty brewing, or just appreciating one of our roasted coffees, no problem. Shoot us an email within 5 days of receiving your coffee and we'll help you find the correct brew settings for your coffee, or give you a credit (minus actual shipping costs) on your next purchase. Yep, we're a Satisfaction Guarantee coffee company!
Please note, our Satisfaction Guarantee only applies to U.S. orders of roasted coffees, and you must contact us within 5 days of receiving the coffees. Credits do not include actual shipping fees, which may be different from posted shipping fees.
We roast and ship on Monday/Wednesday/Friday.
Our commitment to you is to serve exceptional, fresh-roasted coffees. And part of being exceptional means roasting before the flavors inherent in the green bean begin to fade, which happens over time.
Like apples and pumpkins, coffee is a seasonal agricultural product and each country has a different harvesting cycle in which coffees are at their peak. If we were to insist on serving a single origin all year long, the flavors in that coffee would be noticeably better one half of the year over the other. So the reason you no longer see that coffee you loved is because the optimal season has passed. For more on seasonality in coffees, see this blog post here.
Hopefully so. If it was a popular product or we receive customer requests, we will make every attempt to bring it back. However, please note that coffees from a certain producer may not taste the same year after year.
If you loved a coffee and no longer see it listed, shoot us an email and ask us what is similar. We’d be happy to provide a personal recommendation.
We aim for balance and completeness along with differentiation and distinction. You shouldn't need to be a professional coffee taster to tell the coffees a part, so, when we’re selecting coffees, we want them to be distinct from each other.
We avoid ”one-trick pony” type coffees, such as Ethiopians with great aroma but no body or acidity, or coffees with good aroma and acidity but lacking sweetness. These elements, which are often reflections of the growing conditions, are harmonized through good roasting.
And, obviously, defects — even subtle defects — influence our selection. Since we live and work at origin, we’re sensitive to coffee defects like “past crop”, pulpy, and naturals that border on over-ferment. With naturals, we’ll only carry these when great examples are available.
Our perspective on roasting is similar: we seek balance and distinction. To expect that a coffee is “best” when roasted to some pre-determined degree (i.e. only light roasting or only dark roasting) is analogous to thinking that each person would look best in the same outfit, or each coffee should be grown in the same way. We believe it’s our job to discover the roast degree which best highlights outstanding qualities in each coffee.