Questions and Answers about
Kona Purple Mountain Coffee Farm
Est. 1974
1. Parchment coffee is just dried coffee with the seed covering still on it.
2. Green Coffee is Coffee before it is Roasted.
3. Estate Grade Coffee (Green or Roasted) refers to a Grade of coffee that has
Extra Fancy, Fancy, #1 and peaberry beans in it.
4. Medium Roast coffee is when the roasted coffee is roasted to the first crack. It's a brown color with no oils showing, The highest caffeine percentage. This is the favorite roast..
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Full-city roast refers to coffee roasted to second crack. It's brown in color with a few drops of oil showing. A little less caffeine than medium roast.
Dark or Vienna roast is roasted to second crack and left in the roaster a little longer than full-city. It's brown in color and covered in oil. Dark Vienna is used for espresso. It has the least amount of caffeine of all the roasts.
Roasting coffee removes the caffeine from the bean.
For a detailed profile of our coffee you can follow the following link to Sweetmarias and there Tom has written a profile for their customers of our coffee they purchased from us. http://www.sweetmariascoffeerveiw.islands.hawaii.html
Peaberry is a coffee bean shaped like a football. It's one bean and not a half bean like the majority of the harvest. Peaberry is only 5% of the total harvest. Its flavor is an extra special one.
10. Does Kona Purple Mountain spray pesticides? No, There is no need to. We don't have any real bug problems. A few twig borers, but the Jackson chameleons control them.
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11. Is Kona Purple Mountain a big processor? No. We are a small family farm that is in no rush to process like the big processors.
12. What is the traditional Hawaiian method of processing coffee? Traditionally Kona Coffee is slowly processed, pulped the day it's picked, and soaked overnight in a tub of water. Natural fermentation removes jelly like membrane around bean.
Coffee is then washed, and set out on drying deck till dry. It takes 3 to 7 days to dry depending on weather (Most big processors dry on deck for 1 day then put their coffee into diesel dryers for 14 hours or whatever it takes to remove moisture. Believe me... you can tell the difference between sun dried and machine dried). Coffee is then bagged and stored and we let it "rest" for at least 2 weeks. We mill some coffee every month in the amount we think we will need to fill orders. Green Coffee starts to oxidize after milling. To ensure that our coffee is the best you can get we take these precautions.
13. How long does coffee stay fresh? If the coffee is kept in a container that has a check valve, and stored in a dark cool place, it will stay fresh for about a month. For this reason we don't roast; till we get a order. Then we roast (15 pound Bendig roaster) to order, and send priority mail that same day.
14. Why is Kona Purple Mountain coffee less expensive then the other Kona coffee websites?
We're less because we do all the processing ourselves (family members) .
We're a family farm, and you are purchasing farm direct. Isn't that Great ?!!
