Reviews

Our Picks for the Best Kona Coffees. Updated for As a blog about all things coffee, the question people ask us the most is this: “what’s the best brand of kona coffee?”. It’s a simple and fair question, and yet we have trouble answering it. Why? For one, it depends …

Our Top-Rated Burr Coffee Grinders When it comes to improving the quality of your morning cup of coffee, it’s hard to overstate how important your grinder is to your finished cup of coffee. To understand that, we have to think about the overall goal when we are making coffee: to …

Starbucks Kona Coffee Review: Updated February 2015 What a wonderful surprise this is from Starbucks. When the first batch of Kona Private Reserve sold out so quickly, I wondered if we would ever see it again. Kona is a tiny coffee growing region when compared to others. Starbucks has released …

Starbucks Verismo 580 Review If you’ve been in a Starbucks in the past couple of months you may have noticed the Verismo 580 brewers on display. The Verismo machines are Starbucks’ attempt to enter the world of single-cup brewers, which you may have noticed is a rapidly expanding market. Starbucks …

The Best Single Serve Coffee Makers Being able to brew a single cup of coffee with a push of a button is a precious time saver. No wonder then that single cup coffee makers have been surging in popularity over the past few years. What started out as a Keurig-dominated …

Welcome to My Kona Mountain Coffee Review: A must-see stop for any coffee (and chocolate!) lover. When you’re driving from the airport to Kona, it’s hard to miss the Kona Mountain Coffee storefront. Perched on top of a hill next to the highway (with the ocean on the otherside), it …

Koa’s Kona Peaberry Coffee: Rating: Aroma: 4.5 Acidity 4.9 Body 4.0 Aftertaste: 5.0 Overall: 4.85 Koa Coffee Review: About the Coffee The Koa Coffee Plantation is actually a relatively new coffee plantation, founded in 1997 by Marin and Cathy Artuckovich. The Artuckovich family runs the coffee plantation (I’ve found that …