coffee business strategies

From October 26 – October 30, 2009 I was honored to be the Hawaii Island coffee tour guide for a group of coffee professionals representing the Speciality Coffee Association of Europe, who visited Hawaii as their annual origin tour destination. For one week, the group of roasters and writers visited a variety of coffee [...]

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We are pleased to announce that the Speciality Coffee Association of Europe’s annual origin tour is coming to the Island of Hawaii for the first time ever this October 26-31st, organized and led by Andrew Hetzel of Cafemakers (Kamuela) and author of The Hawaii Coffee Book, Dr. Shawn Steiman of Coffea Consulting (Honolulu). Approximately [...]

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Friend and colleague Dr. Shawn Steiman, PhD serves up an insightful overview of Hawaii’s coffees and makes a few recipe suggestions for cooking with coffee in today’s Honolulu Star Bulletin newspaper.
From the Honolulu Star Bulletin:
Coffee has become big business in Hawaii. Eleven regions on five islands house some 830 farms statewide. This is great for [...]

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The poster to a coffee discussion group this morning asks (I paraphrase) “I recently purchased some green coffee from Maui and Kauai; the beans are much smaller than from Kona. Are the the coffees from Maui and Kauai different than the better known origin of Kona, and are they inferior?”
My response:
Coffees from each [...]

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