Kona Maragogype -Kainaliu
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Coffee Profile
Continent: Pacific
Country: USA
Farm: Aloha Hills Kainaliu
Process: Washed
Region: Kainaliu, Kona, Big Island of Hawaii
Variety: Maragogype
Roast Scale
Light Medium Dark
Tasting Notes
Peach, flowers, and honey in the aroma, giving way to Oolong tea, orange and brown sugar in the cup. A powerful big bodied, impressively structured coffee.
Background Info
Maragogype is a Mutant of the Typica variety that produces the largest beans of any Coffee variety. Parent of the better known Pacamara hybrid variety which inherits the Large size and excellent cup quality of Maragogype while also having excellent production. Maragogype is very uncommon in most countries now due to its low productivity.
There are only a handful of farms in Hawaii growing this variety, and most only with a few trees. Ours comes from a farm above 2000ft elevation in Kainaliu, Kona owned by Aloha Hills. More than 10 years ago they accidentally planted a couple of acres of this coffee thinking the seed they had was Typica. The mistake wasn't realized until the trees matured. They showed the coffee to Miguel a decade ago and he was impressed by the quality and encouraged them to keep the field and harvest it separately rather than replant it with Typica. Miguel has been helping them find a home for this special coffee in the years since then.
Kona Maragogype is a coffee we look forward to every year, and consistently among the best washed coffees available from the island.
Processing is simple and traditional. Coffee cherries are pulped in the afternoon, and most of the mucilage is scrubbed off mechanically. The coffee is allowed to ferment without any added water in open tanks over night, rinsed, and then spread out to dry on a covered wooden patio.
Freshly Roasted to Order
Kona Maragogype -Kainaliu will be roasted to order & shipped fresh. All shipping is USPS.