Peaberry — 100% Kaʻū Coffee

Concentrated and clean — caramel sweetness, a fuller body, and a brighter finish than any flat bean on our farms.

Most coffee cherries hold two seeds that grow flat against each other. In roughly 5 to 10% of a harvest, only one seed develops — and with the whole cherry to itself, it grows round instead of flat. That is a peaberry.

You cannot plant it. It has to be separated out during milling, one screen at a time. The round bean is also denser, so it roasts more evenly than a flat bean. Ours are sorted from our harvest at Pahala (1,600 ft) and Nāʻālehu (2,100 ft) — sorting across two elevations is the only reason we have enough of it to sell at all.

Tasting panel

• Notes: caramel, pecan, dried cherry
• Body: Full
• Acidity: Medium to bright, clean
• Sweetness: Concentrated
• Bean: Peaberry — single round seed, hand-sorted
• Process: Washed
• Origin: Kaʻū, Hawaiʻi — 100% single family farm
• Elevation: 1,600–2,100 ft (Pahala and Nāʻālehu)
• Harvest: 2025/26

Medium or dark

Medium is what peaberry is for — the whole point of the bean is concentration and clarity, and a medium roast keeps both. Dark makes a very good heavy cup, but you would be paying a premium for nuance a dark roast will flatten. We would order medium.

How to brew it, and shipping

Whole bean, 8 oz — about 16 cups. 18 g to 300 ml. Because the beans are denser and roast more evenly, this is the most forgiving coffee we sell: it is hard to make a bad cup of it. Pour-over shows the most. When the season's sorting is gone, it is gone until next harvest. Roasted the day we pack it, out of Hawaiʻi within 1–2 business days. Free shipping over $75, applied automatically.