Distinguished by their rounded shape, peaberries account for only 5% of our harvest. They are the rarest of our classic Ka‘u coffees.
 
Consider these beans a riff on the quintessential Ka‘u coffee. Like our Classic Medium Roast and Classic Dark Roast, these peaberries are of the Typica variety, grown in the rich soil and cool climate of the Mauna Loa volcano’s southern slope.
 
We sort the unroasted coffee to separate the peaberries from the more typical flat beans.
 
Now comes the fun part. We roast, taste and evaluate individual peaberry lots in a procedure called cupping. Our goal: Choose peaberries that show off the classic Ka‘u profile of sweetness, balanced acidity and flavors of caramel, citrus and chocolate.