Coffee Cache » Kona Coffee http://coffeecache.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:30:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE) on the Big Island http://coffeecache.com/2009/12/specialty-coffee-association-of-europe-scae-on-the-big-island/ http://coffeecache.com/2009/12/specialty-coffee-association-of-europe-scae-on-the-big-island/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:13:35 +0000 Geoffrey http://coffeecache.com/?p=516 When a small group of SCAE members reached the “Big Island” of Hawaii in late October this year, and we were taken to the hotel on the northwest of the island, many of us wondered how coffee could possibly grow on this barren land. All around, as far as the eye could see and right up to the great volcano of Mauna Kea, was a desert of black lava. There was a light mist, formed by fine volcanic dust mixing with the air, which the locals call volcanic fog or “vog.”

Read the full Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE) article, Coffee on the Big Island: the SCAE’s Hawaii origin tour. Posted 12/14/09.


Learn a little about Kona coffee and see a photo gallery of SCAE’s trip to the Big Island.

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