We are awaiting the arrival of a new coffee from Hawaii's big island. This coffee is from the Aroma Farms of the Kau region. Coffees from Kau placed in the top 10 at the SCAA cupping pavillion. Price-wise, it will rival the Konas, but cup-wise, it's blowing what we've seen from Kona out of the water.

Some more specific information:
Ka'u is way far south, the southernmost area in the U.S. It is a one of the most remote and rural areas in Hawaii. This area does not have good beaches and therefore no resorts, yet.

This coffee is of the typica varietal, and is grown at 1900 feet.

There is an interesting story about how these farmers came upon the seedstock for their farms. Back in the late 1800's, an Australian ship's captain by the name of Serle lived in this area. He obtained land and started a coffee business, but his venture did not prosper because of the lack of labor available. In those days the sugar plantations took up all the labor. So his fields were abandoned, however these "heirloom" trees have served as a source for the two coffee farms that you are buying lots from. This also serves as much of the typica stock on Kau.
The farmers are largely Filipino immigrants. Many of them came here to work on the sugar plantation, which closed up in 1996. With the closing, people had to find alternate sources of revenue and some of the more entepreneurial planted coffee. Aroma farm was planted from 1999-2001.
The season generally runs Sept-Dec, however this last year was very late, Dec-April. Last year was an interesting year weather-wise. It rained continuously from mid-February through the end of March. I think there was a statistic that the sun actually shone for 20 hours through the whole of March.

For more information, check out this link for an article published in the Honolulu Advertiser:
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Jul/01/bz/FP707010330.html

We expect this coffee in our warehouse early August. Thanks!