Pour hot water over two cups of ground coffee - one fresh, one from a bag that's been sitting a while. Watch what happens.
Fresh-roasted coffee blooms: it puffs up and pushes back against the water. Coffee roasted weeks or months ago barely moves.
Pour hot water over fresh-roasted coffee and it blooms - that's carbon dioxide, and it only lasts a few weeks after roasting. Store-bought coffee barely moves. Ours is roasted the day it ships.
Shop the CoffeeWe don't roast until you order. Roast day is ship day, and it's on its way to you by USPS Priority in about 3-4 days.
Most 'Kona' blends are 90% something else. Ours is 100% Kona, hand-picked from our family estate - no fillers, no blending.
Hand-picked and small-batch roasted from our family estate in Holualoa, on the slopes of Hualālai.
We don't roast ahead of your order. Every bag is hand-picked and roasted on our family estate in Holualoa, then shipped the same day, farm-direct to your door.
Medium or dark, whole bean or ground. One pound, roasted the day it ships.
About $2 a cup
USPS Priority, 3-4 business days
About $2 a cup
USPS Priority, 3-4 business days
Try it yourself
Pour hot water over two cups of ground coffee - one fresh, one from a bag that's been sitting a while. Watch what happens.
Fresh-roasted coffee blooms: it puffs up and pushes back against the water. Coffee roasted weeks or months ago barely moves.
Why it blooms
Roasting traps CO₂ inside the bean. It escapes over the next few weeks - that's the bloom you see when hot water hits fresh grounds.
Grocery-shelf coffee carries a best-by date, not a roast date. We don't roast your coffee until you order it, and it ships the same day it's roasted.
You're paying for hand-picked, 100% Kona coffee that isn't roasted until you order it - not a blend that sat in a warehouse. That works out to about $2 a cup.
Shipping is calculated at checkout. Orders ship USPS Priority and typically arrive in 3-4 business days.
Pour hot water over your grounds and watch. Fresh-roasted coffee releases carbon dioxide (CO₂) and blooms - it puffs up. Coffee that's been sitting for weeks or months has already released most of its CO₂, so it barely moves.
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