Kona coffee
Kona coffee is the trade name for Arabica - coffee beans that are grown in the Kona district on the west coast of the island of Hawaii (also called the Big Island ) and are among the most expensive coffee beans in the world. The growing area for Kona coffee is located on the fertile slopes of the Mauna Loa and Hualālai volcanoes and offers favorable conditions for the production of high-quality coffee.
The arabica beans were introduced to Hawaii from Brazil by Samuel Ruggles in 1828 . The British merchant Henry Nicholas Greenwell (1826–1891) helped Kona Coffee to gain international fame in the second half of the 19th century.
The price for Kona coffee in Germany can be ten to twenty times that of conventional Arabica beans, which is why it is sometimes sold as a cheaper Kona blend or Kona blend . This is a coffee made from conventional Arabica beans with Kona coffee; the proportion of Kona coffee is usually 10%.
literature
- Gerald Y. Kinro: Cup of Aloha. The Kona Coffee Epic. Honolulu 2003, ISBN 0824826787 .
- Charles Johnston: Coffee and Coffee Tourism in Kona, Hawaii. Surviving in the niche. In: Lee Jolliffe (Ed.): Coffee Culture, Destinations and Tourism. Channel View Publications, 2010, ISBN 9781845411428 , pp. 111-134.
