Kona Blend Medium Roast

The KONA BLEND from GROSCHE is a gourmet blend of Hawaiian Kona coffee and premium South American Arabica beans. Rich and full-flavoured, this high quality blend features earthy characteristics and the nutty and fruity flavours of Hawaiian Kona. This KONA coffee is a medium roast and comes in a 1 pound bag.

Samuel Reverend Ruggles brought coffee to Hawaii in the 1820's. He brought it to Hawaii from Brazil. Following that, an English merchant Nicholas Greenwell later established Kona as a brand in the 19th century. This coffee blooms in February and march. Then the red cherry-like fruit is picked by late August. Then the fruit pickers pick the fruit by hand several times till the coming January. The beans are then separated from the pulp of the cherry and dried.

Kona coffee has a very rich and smooth coffee taste that's very famous. Our blend is a Kona coffee Canada roast with 20% or more Kona coffee and a custom blend of similar beans from South America with the same flavor profiles. This gives a wonderful Kona flavor bean at a fraction of the price of 100% Kona coffee beans, which makes a delicious cup of coffee.

We ship this Kona Coffee Canada blend into a whole bean coffee. This allows you to custom grind your beans for your preferred brewing method. Secondly, it means that you get the freshest and most aromatic tasting coffee every time. Use a coarse to medium grind for French press and pour over coffee makers and a fine grind for stove-top espresso makers. This coffee is blended and roasted in Canada by expert coffee roasters with nearly 50 years of experience in creating excellent tasting gourmet coffees. This bean is ideal for brewing in a craft coffee maker like a French Press, a pour over, or a siphon. It makes a great Italian Moka coffee as well in a Moka Pot.

We offer numerous grinds for all GROSCHE coffee beans, but we recommend shipping all of our coffees as whole bean coffees. This allows you to custom grind your beans for your preferred brewing method. It also means, that you get the freshest and most aromatic tasting coffee every time. Use a coarse to medium grind for French press and pour over coffee makers and a fine grind for stovetop espresso makers.

Our Kona Blend blend is a medium roast custom blend coffee. When choosing your roast you have three options; light, medium and dark. During the coffee production process, darker roasts involve keeping the beans on the machine longer or at a higher temperature compared to lighter roast coffee beans. When this happens the coffee beans will lose more moisture and become less dense. In the end, this gives the dark/medium roast beans more flavour by taking away some of the bitterness.

So, any coffee lovers' preference will depend on their preferred taste and caffeine content. A lighter roast is dense with a higher caffeine content, a dark roast will bring out more of a single-note flavour and is less caffeinated. And a medium roast is a happy middle-ground between density, caffeine content and flavour.

A common misconception about storing coffee is that is good to put it in the freezer. Freezing your coffee puts it in contact with moisture which ends up draining it of its flavor. The best place to store your Kona Blend coffee is within an airtight container, somewhere cool, dark and dry.

This could be a pantry or a cabinet, just as long as it’s somewhere away from heat and light. If you really want to store your coffee on your counter, keep the coffee in a canister that is opaque, airtight, and away from direct sunlight. Use it up within 1-2 weeks of opening to enjoy a coffee with the freshest, fullest aroma.

GROSCHE takes pride in being a carbon-neutral and family owned Certified B Corporation that cares about social and environmental responsibility. And thanks to loyal customers like you, together we’re making a difference. When you buy a GROSCHE product you're funding 50+ days of safe drinking water for someone in need through the GROSCHE Safe Water Project.

Thus far, the GROSCHE Safe Water Project has funded over 2,800 Biosand water filters and 300 million days of safe drinking water for people in communities across 6 different countries. And it wouldn’t be possible without you.