Enjoy 100% Kona coffee drinks & snacks on the shaded patio overlooking their Kona coffee farm, Kailua-Kona town center & the ocean. Much cooler here than in the town center. Has own parking lot & bathrooms. Coffee Affogato wow! sweet creamy flavorful coffee ice cream paired with slightly bitter strong smooth espresso was absolutely excellent $6.50. 5* Cookies 1. Oatmeal Raisin $6.50. 4.5* 2. Macadamia Nut Shortbread $5.50. 5* 3. Furikake Chex Mix (seasoned with butter, honey, soy sauce syrup and tossed with furikake) $6. 4* Plant Quarantine follow rules to help minimize spread of the current local disease, Coffee Leaf Rust, which affects coffee plants by preventing photosynthesis Tours Available 1. Roastmaster Tour (roast own beans $50) 2. Coffee Harvest Experience Tour (seasonal is usudally Sept-Feb; 1 hr experience includes picking beans $35) UCC (Ueshima Coffee Co) History & Info 1. founded in 1933 by Tadao Ueshima, is one of Japanese top coffee companies. 2. Since 1989 it has owned & operated this 40 acre coffee farm of 18,000 coffee trees at 1509 ft above sea level at the foot of Mt Hualalai. 3. All their coffee here are certified with Hawaii State Dept of Agriculture's Certificate of Origin (grown in Kona) and Quality (meets standards). 4. In 1969 they were the 1st company in the world to offer canned coffee. 5. Their canned coffee got featured in the anime films Evangelion in 1997, 2007, & 2009. 6. They also have a coffee plantation in Jamaica Kona Coffee info 1. Kona coffee (Arabica Typica) is smooth with mild acidity & is only grown on the Kona Coffee Belt terroir, 2. the western slopes of Mauna Loa and Haulalai of Big Island. 3. Weather here is 1. avg 85 degrees sunny mornings, 2. cloudy/rainy afternoons (60"+ avg rainfall/year! While Kona TC 27", Hilo 142", Sitka AL 86" & Seattle 37" per year) 3. wind protected western slopes has usually just light breezes, 4. avg 60 degrees mild nights. 4. Soil: only coffee grown in this region with mineral-rich slightly acidic porous volcanic soil can be called Kona coffee, one of the most expensive coffee in the world. 1. Feb/March: coffee blooms for "Kona Snow" covered trees 2. April: green berries appear 3. Late Aug to January: ripen red fruit "cherries" gets pick Coffee Quality Grades 1. Kona Coffee Bean Type 1: 1. Kona Extra Fancy 2. Kona Fancy 3. Kona Number 1 4. Kona Select 5. Kona Prime 2. Kona Coffee Bean Type II: 1. Peaberry Number 1 2. Peaberry Prime 3. Beans too low to qualify as "Kona coffee" are 1. Number 3 (or Triple X) labeled as "Hawaiian" coffee 2. Less than Number 3 is "Offgrade" coffee labeled as a generic coffee 4. Estate Grades: any mixture of grades excluding Number 3 & Offgrade Kona Coffee History -1825 King, Queen & Governor Chief of Oahu went to London as a delegation. Tried coffee there. K&Q contracted measles & died there. G brought back bodies of K&G on a ship that stopped in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where G got some coffee trees. They did not produce fruits when planted in Oahu. -1827 Reverend Samuel brought them to Kona to plant in his yard. -1959 Hawaii became 50th US state Located -on Hwy 180 (directly east of Kailua-Kona town center) -1.5miles north of Holuakoa Coffee Shack -15 minutes (no traffic) or 7.5 miles from Kailua-Kona town center read more