Blog - 100% Kona
Nov 19, 2019
Hui Aloha Kīholo
#GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration. On Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019 we will give 20% of our sales to Hui Aloha Kīholo in celebration of #GivingTuesday.
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Oct 23, 2019
Handmade Soap
We’ve partnered with soap maker Amanda Richards of Paper Crane Soaps to use ingredients from our farm, and other farmers in Hawaii, to handcraft soaps. Our selection of soaps include farm honey, 100% Kona coffee latté, mamaki mint tea, and hibiscus orange (seasonal). We interviewed Amanda to get to know the woman behind our soaps....
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Oct 22, 2019
2019 IRONMAN® World Championship Photos
Chance of Chance Punahele Photography captured some amazing images of the 2019 IRONMAN® triathletes as they completed the final leg of the 140.6-mile journey. The race course passes our Kailua-Kona café.
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Oct 1, 2019
First Harvest 2019
Annually, we invite the public to come to the farm and help us pick the first coffee of the season. It gives our community of Kona coffee lovers a chance to see where their coffee comes from and learn more about our process.
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Sep 6, 2019
Kona Coffee & Tea’s very own IRONMAN®
2019 marks the first year Kona Coffee & Tea has sponsored a sole athlete competing in the IRONMAN® World Championship. We feed him our peanut butter/banana with chia seeds on a bagel and he drinks a Kona Bullet...
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Aug 19, 2019
Cold Brew Q & A
What’s all the buzz about cold-brewed coffee? We’ll demystify your questions about this trendy brew method and show you how to easily make it at home. In comparison to its fast and furious cousin iced coffee, cold brew is a gentle giant of refined flavor.
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Jul 10, 2019
2019 Crop Tasting Notes
Aloha and welcome to our annual crop assessment and tasting, where our four primary roasts (light, medium, dark, and peaberry) were cupped. From the dry aromas of roasted hazelnut, to sips with notes of milk chocolate and citrus…
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Jun 24, 2019
Pregnancy and Kona Coffee
Director of Operations at Kona Coffee & Tea, Malia Bolton Hind, shares how her relationship with coffee has changed while being pregnant with her first child and being at the center of one of the world’s coffee Meccas…
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May 16, 2019
Blue Zones Approved
Kona Coffee & Tea’s Kailua-Kona café just became Blue Zones approved by offering new healthier menu options and being committed to cultivating a place of community. The Blue Zones Project is a community-wide well-being improvement initiative around the world…
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Apr 15, 2019
Sustainably Farmed
We are frequently asked whether our coffee is organic. So, we thought we would take the time to explain our philosophy and commitment to sustainable farming practices…
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Mar 28, 2019
Catching a Buzzzz
The coffee flowers are in bloom which means we have a fresh harvest of Kona Snow Honey. Our farm has hundreds of buzzing boxes of bees strategically placed around the property. We recently caught up with Kelly O’Day from Kona Queen Hawaii. He is the man with a plan when it comes to our current bee population and honey production on the farm.…
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Mar 5, 2019
Making the Grade
Is your coffee extra fancy? In order for coffee growers in the U.S. to maintain a thriving business, quality, taste, and consistency are essential. The grading system, which includes grades like extra fancy, select, and number 1, qualifies coffees grown by size, moisture content, and amount of defects in a determined sample size…
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