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Originally posted by shave_ice
I personally like Kau coffee best. It just doesn't have the name recognition that Kona coffee does yet. Can't remember the name, but Kau coffee is sold at the Makuu farmer's market in a red bag.
The Cloud Coffee from Hamakua (red bag), the Divine Ka'u Dark coffee (red bag), and the Ka'u Coffee Mill Peaberry (purple label) have been faves of mine for a while now.
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My fave is Rising Sun (Kau) available from Will and Grace store in na'alehu, but you can get very good Kau "Big Island Coffee" at Cost U Less for a very reasonable price.
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Sharkys - Organic grown locally exclusively on Rd 1 in Hawaiian Acres near C and D Roads on Road 1.
Puna small farmer based.
Our second choice is Kau - Can be found at Cost U Less,we like the very dark roast Gold and Black packaging.
Sharky's is good and affordable. The only thing is when i was buying from them they only did quite a dark roast. I like dark roast but my husband likes medium, so he discovered Moa'ula, which has a good medium roast.
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Originally posted by Kelena
For cool branding and packaging that instantly tells the recipient where the coffee is from check out huladaddy.com I don't buy their coffee but I am hoping that someone will raid their online gift shop for me, wrap it up and give the stuff to me for Christmas. There is something very camp about what they have done there.
When my parents came back from vacationing in Kona they brought me a Hula Daddy coffee mug. It's so cool and campy that everyone who see's it want's one of their own!
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Originally posted by Carey
We have often sent coffee as a gift, and it has always been well received. Right now our favorite coffee gift is the awesome product by Big Island Roasters in Hawaiian Acres.
Kona coffee has a name recognition that is hard to beat, but the BI Coffee Roaster coffee taste has been phenomenal... and it is a Puna product... some of our gift recipients also like Sharkys, Shark or Hilo Coffee mill products...
Links for these:
http://bigislandcoffeeroasters.com/
http://www.sharkyscoffee.com/aboutus.htm
http://www.hilosharkscoffee.com/
http://hilocoffeemill.com/
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You can't really go wrong with any of these. Or most Ka'u coffee. Or most Kona (of which I really like Greenwell both for the coffee and the people).
Mimosa: I thought Sharkys was right in Mountain view just off old Volcano Road? Big Island Coffee Roasters is definitely on Road 1 just after you turn off S. Kulani and are terrific people.
Me ka ha`aha`a,
Mike
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Traditionally, I have only given Sharky's, however I prefer a dark roast, and they have been one of the few Hawaiian coffees available in a dark roast.
Usually I get jumped on for any sentence I type that includes "Hawaii" "coffee" and "dark roast" (something about over roasting destroying the taste of the 'real' island coffee flavor or whatever)... whatever the case, I'm not some kind of coffee purist Nazi. I enjoy my coffee like I enjoy my cooling lava flows.... hot and dark.
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Sharky's & BI Coffee Roasters are both in Hawaiian Acres & neighbors.
We know the owners & like the owners of both.
Also have friends that have acres of their land in production for Greeenwell.
With all of the wonderful choices of coffee beans, there is also the opportunity to assemble a gift package of a variety of different local beans & allow your friends the great joy of discovering their favorite!
We have a couple of coffee trees that were spectacularly producing, having set their roots quickly through the planting pots we had. Then we decided they must move for a concrete lanai... They are just getting over the indignity of being ripped up from a perfectly wonderful place to stretch their roots & forced into a brand new neighborhood in our yard, having to share the sky with other orchard plants (oh, the horror!) Wait 'till they find out we have a few more coffee seedling we will be putting in their garden!
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I love this thread.
Tim
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions--Confucius
