Re: [91attendees] FW: Coffee brand?

[Stefan Winter <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

>> However I took a tour last Friday, and the guide told us that Hawaii is
>> the furthest from the Equator that they grow coffee. Quite a bit of
>> industry here.
> Just goes to show, you shouldn't believe everything a tour guide tells
> you.  Hawaii is about 21 N latitude, while Paran� in Brazil is about
> 24 S, and grows vast amounts of coffee.  This may be the farthest
> north that anyone grows coffee commercially, although there is coffee
> grown in Veracruz, Mexico, which may be slightly farther north.
>
> I agree that the hotel coffee is quite good, but I would be pretty
> surprised if it contained any beans grown in Hawaii.  Coffee from Kona
> is very expensive, like two or three times coffee from other places.
> If there were any local beans in the coffee, there would be large
> signs saying Kona and it would cost extra.
>

I got an off-list reply with much more in-depth insights. Not sure why
the person didn't go on-list, so let the name remain a mystery, but for
all the coffee lovers I'm spoiling the actual info now:

"The coffee that the hotel uses is in concentrate liquid form for high volume dispensing machines.

Decaf brand is Javo, house blend.
Regular coffee is Hawaiian Paradise Coffee Company, Kona blend, www.hawaiianparadisecoffee.com"


Visiting that website suggests that this must be the *10%* Kona blend.
So the coffee seems to actually contain traces of Kona, even if there
are no big signs around it.

So I bought 10% Kona and also 100% Kona just to have samples of both.
ABC Store does not have the exact same vendor Hawaiian Paradise, so I
settled for some other Kona. Hoping that it turns out tasty when I'm
back home. After all, taste is also dependent on context, and being in
Hawaii certainly has the potential to bias the contextual experience to
the better.

If someone finds "Hawaiian Paradise" shops nearby, I'm happy to take advice.
Stefan