HONOLULU COFFEE BLOG
4 Things You Didn't Know About Kona Coffee
Is Kona coffee native to Hawaii? What makes a Kona blend, a Kona blend? We're tackling 4 facts about Kona coffee so that you might learn something new about this Hawaiian mainstay.
What is Coffee Cupping?
What is Coffee Cupping? A coffee cupping is a coffee tasting or sampling event! An experience, if you will. At the store level, it’s a way for us to check for quality and consistency in the coffee that we are roasting day to day. On a global level, cupping is how coffee is evaluated, graded and eventually priced all over the world. It is a universal procedure that is done the exact same way across the globe. This creates a common language so that a coffee farmer in Guatemala, a coffee importer in London, and a coffee roaster in Hawai’i...
Roasted With Aloha: The Vintage Roaster Behind Your Kona
Read our ode to our vintage Probat drum roaster, a roaster that you can see in action in the middle of our Honolulu Coffee Experience Center.
Surf's Up Summer: New Merchandise at Honolulu Coffee
To celebrate the new summer season, we thought we'd bring in some merchandise that highlights one thing we love about Hawaii: surfing. See it here!