The story and history of Kona coffee beans in Hawaii

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Legend has it that the volcano goddess Pele fled to the Big Island of Hawaii after losing a love dispute. With a bad temper, she often gets angry, so the volcano on the big island is still erupting to this day. Affected by this, the soil in Kona Oshima has moderate acidity and is rich in minerals. Coupled with the warm and humid climate, Kona Coffee is unexpectedly one of the top three in the world.

There are currently more than 600 coffee farms in the Kona area. These farms are concentrated on the hillside of the volcano at an altitude of 800 to 3000 feet, forming a unique "coffee belt". Every March, the coffee tree will appear white flowers, flowering for only two or three days, each flower means a fruit. Kona Coffee has the most beautiful fruit in the world, full in shape, bright in color and bright in luster. There is no time-saving and labor-saving way to collect these fruits, only to rely on hard workers to pick them by hand.

Each fruit contains two seeds, which are what we usually call coffee beans. 15 pounds of coffee fruit produces only 2 pounds of beans. If the two seeds grow together, they become the more precious "Peaberry" coffee, accounting for only 5 per cent of the total coffee production. Every afternoon, farm workers bag the collected fruit back to the factory, peel, wash, air, and then bake for different lengths of time to become Kona coffee with a variety of flavors.

Greenwell Farms is the oldest coffee farm in Kona. Since Henry Nicolas Greenwell left England for the Big Island in 1850, his family has been in the coffee industry here for more than 160 years. In the 1990s, when the farm was on the verge of closure, the current owner, Tom Greenwell, nearly abandoned the family business. Finally, with the introduction of advanced business concepts and planting techniques, as well as some seemingly incredible methods, the farm prospered again. Today, they still insist on pruning those coffee trees that have borne fruit to a height of 50 centimeters after a bumper harvest, so that they will get a greater harvest in the future. The farm's most recent award-winning coffee is called Jeni.K, which comes from carefully cultivated coffee trees in the Konanaewa area of the farm. This coffee shows a perfect tropical flavor: a fresh palate with intense fruit guava aromas and a hint of vanilla and chocolate. Jeni.K Q is taken from the farm hostess's name Jennifer, so the package is printed with a blooming rose. The aroma of coffee curled up, and the farmer's affection drifted far away.

Through its aroma and taste, people who have tasted Kona Coffee say it has a mixture of smoky, fruity and earthy aromas, and is more likely to feel the original taste before grinding. At present, the coffee served by the White House on important occasions is also Kona Coffee. But the growers and producers of Kona Coffee will directly tell all the admiring tourists to give up the etiquette on the coffee table, taste every sip of coffee, feel the rich taste in the mouth, and let the coffee talk to you. In this season, let a cup of Kona coffee bring distant Hawaii to you and melt the whole autumn.