Our Estate

Our estates are located in South Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. We are about 30 miles south of the town of Kailua. Our coffee plantings are between 1,800 and 2,300 feet of elevation on the slopes of the Mauna Loa volcano (summit @ 13,680 feet above sea level). This is about 4,100 miles from our roaster in Jonesboro, Arkansas. In the Kona microclimate, coffee grows best in the elevation range between 1,500 and 3,000 feet. Any lower, and the warmer temperatures ripen the fruit earlier in the growth cycle than is desirable, any higher and the temperature is too cool to fully develop the bean. Kona Clouds' elevation is just right.

Estate Coffee refers to Kona coffee which is grown on a discrete parcel of land and is not mixed with coffee from other farms. This allows us to control the quality and assure you that Kona Cloud Coffee is the finest available. Our coffee is a mix of all the usual grades of Kona Coffee including the sought after "peaberry" coffee.

Our name is derived from the daily afternoon cloud cover and the "mauka" (mountain) showers. You can see this on our pics page. The average coffee farm in Kona is less than five acres. Kona Cloud Coffee Estates currently has 21 acres in cultivation. This is fully irrigated with a rainwater collection system and individual per plant irrigation nozzles. We have created an optimal growing environment for our quality estate Kona Coffee.