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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? 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...

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.

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!