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 [...]
SCAE Visit to Hawaii
November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Hawaii coffee
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SCAE Seeks sponsors for 2009 Hawaii origin tour
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Hawaii coffee
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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Hawaii’s Coffee Cornucopia
June 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Hawaii coffee, Tips
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 other coffees of Hawaii
January 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Coffee Roasting, Hawaii coffee
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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