Kona Coffee

The best part of visiting Kona, was getting to tour the Mountain Thunder coffee farm. Mountain Thunder is a family run, organic coffee farm in the hills of Kona, Hawaii.



Kona coffee is some of the most expensive coffee in the world and is grown organically. Once you try the coffee and see the extensive process of creating it, you'll understand why it's so expensive. The coffee is absolutely amazing and the best coffee I have ever tried in my life. Normal coffee usually gives an after taste and after a while that after taste does not taste too well. Kona coffee has a refreshing taste that doesn't leave any kind of after taste.



The coffee trees are grown in higher altitude mountains and take longer to mature than normal coffee beans. That is what gives the coffee its different taste. After the cherries are matured and ripe, they turn a nice red color. Then, farmers go through the fields and begin handpicking the ripened cherries from each tree. Some farmers can pick off a few hundred pounds of beans a day! The bean inside the cherry is much stronger in caffeine than the actual coffee when it is brewed. I tried one on our nature walk and was bright eyed and bushy tailed for hours afterwards.



Another type of coffee the farm produces is called Peaberry coffee. The coffee is made from undeveloped coffee beans. When a cherry doesn't develop all of the way, the bean still continues to grow inside the cherry and creates an egg shaped coffee bean. The taste is said to have a very intense flavor and is extremely rare. Less than 4% of the crops that are picked grow peaberries. Like all of their coffee, it is a high quality coffee once produced.



Each product made by Mountain Thunder goes through rigorous quality testing and are tested several times a week internally and externally. Each machine used by the company allows the company to use the highest quality coffee beans that are produced by the farm. There are hardly any imperfect beans used when making and sorting the coffee beans, which you can definitely tell when drinking this delicious coffee.



While I didn't purchase any of the coffee myself, it is well worth the price. The coffee takes more months to mature than regular coffee, it's handpicked, goes through extensive quality sorting and testing and then sealed with care.