Stock available. These small beans are considered to be the ‘‘champagne’’ of Kona coffee. There is a very high demand and a very low supply, here in Kona, of these precious, rare beans. Instead of two flat beans, Peaberries are single "football shaped" beans that grow in less than 4% of the coffee cherries produced. Most agree that Peaberries are the result of stress on the tree itself.

During the dry-milling process, before roasting, Peaberry beans can be separated from the larger flat beans by sizing screens. This enables us to roast bag of Kona coffee that contains only small Peaberry beans inside. The Kona coffee flavor and aroma from Peaberries is thought, by most experts, to be more intense and more discernable than that produced from regular, flat-sided beans. Most likely this happens because in Peaberries, the flavor molecules are concentrated. We believe that you'll agree that the flavor and aroma of these small beans is awesome!

Quantity: Size: 1 lb. bag - $30.00 .5 lb. bag - $16.00 5 lb. bag - $145.00 Roast: Medium Madam Pele Dark

Extra Fancy Size, flat-sided beans, are the LARGEST seeds that develop on a Kona coffee tree. Most experts feel that, compared to mass produced Kona coffee (not ours), these ‘super-sized’ beans put out a better brew....one with more body and dimension. It’s mother natures treat - but not without extra effort.

Extra Fancy Size Kona coffee trees do not exist. Instead, a variety of seed sizes are hidden inside each cherry when it is hand-picked. It’s when the seeds are squeezed by the pulper that the large beans can be seen amongst the others. The beans must be sun-dried and husked before the ‘green’ (unroasted) beans can be size sorted to separate the largest beans from the rest. Typically less than 20% of the beans make the cut.

The caffeine is removed from pure Kona beans, before they are roasted, by the SWISS Water™ Method which uses pure water only - no solvent chemicals - to remove 99% of the caffeine. To accomplish this, a cargo container is filled with thousands of pounds of un-roasted (green) Kona coffee beans and shipped to Vancouver, Canada. The beans are left to soak in large vats of fresh water to remove the caffeine, but not the flavor. That’s why this is the only method providing decaf that tastes as good as a Kona coffee should. Once the caffeine is out, the beans are dried again and shipped back to the Big Island. For optimal flavor balance the beans are roasted only to our Madam Pele roast.

Our flavored 100% Kona coffees combine the taste of Kona with the flavor of delicate extracts. Each pound of roasted beans - still warm - is mixed often to enhance absorption of the extract before they are packaged. For optimum balance we flavor only coffee roasted to our Madam Pele Roast. Flavored, pure Kona coffee is an exceptional treat and an elegant finish to any meal.

Roasting your own coffee can be a delightful experience. And if you've decided to try it, you might as well start with the very best green beans available. Ours are 100% Kona, including choices that are prize-winning and certified organic beans. You can select two pounds of green from any estates or grades we have in stock. If you choose an estate, you'll see the green beans are a combination of Kona's top grades - Peaberry, Extra Fancy, Fancy, and No. 1. Our graded coffees - Peaberry and Extra Fancy - are screened so all beans are the same size. We package all green beans for shipment in burlap bags, so you'll be like professional roasters who use burlap because it breathes.