Coffee that varies significantly from that and other chemical ratios is not Kona, the lawsuit says. Take packets labeled as “100% Hawaiian Kona Coffee” by Gold Coffee Roasters Inc., a company ...

Coffee lovers sip what they think is premium Kona coffee, only to discover it’s a mass-produced blend lacking the unique ...

The 4.89-acre farm in Kealakekua includes 1,164 coffee trees, 39 macadamia trees and numerous producing fruit trees at an elevation of 2,300 feet. The listing agent, Kona Realtor Sue Brown, says the ...

These mills buy Kona coffee cherries at prices ranging from about $1.20 to $2 a pound. “About 75 percent of Kona coffee farmers still sell cherry to wet mills, and when you sell cherry you can get $2, ...

Christine Coleman, her business and life partner, Manny Ochoa, and her son Justin Olson are marking the 10th anniversary of their Kona and Hilo-side coffee-growing operations this year.

Shriner also said international distributors are hesitant to purchase Kona Coffee. “They don’t trust us because of the fraud issue,” she said, adding using the Kona name amounts to ...

The Kona farmers hired scientists to determine various chemical ratios in genuine Kona coffee. The ratio of manganese to nickel, for example, averages less than 40 to 1.