Sunshower Farms Natural Processed 100% Kona




   Today I feature Part 1 of a 4-Part series of delicious coffees from the folks over at Sunshower Farms out of Holualoa, Hawaii. Sunshower Farms is Kate & Doug Hickey, a married couple from Chicago, Illinois. They moved to Hawaii in February of 2013 in search of something new (and warm) and fell in love with their farm. They started Sunshower to serve people who care about where their coffee comes from and who truly want to know their farmer. Kate does their marketing, website, coffee roasting and sales, events, vegetable production and animal care. Doug is in charge of the accounting and all 8 acres of their coffee production. Sunshower Farms is committed to creativity and quality at every step of the coffee process. They believe in third-wave coffee principles, from sustainable farming techniques to innovative processing and roasting methods. 

   The 4 different features will highlight each of the beans I have from Sunshower Farms. This is the 1st, their Natural Processed 100% Kona Coffee. Natural processing is a very labor and time intensive process. It takes double the drying time of their washed process and is all hand sorted for defects. This year they only produced 250 pounds of natural, so supply is limited. Get some while you can! Sunshower notes flavors of blueberries & red wine. I brewed this at my 1:12 ratio. This was a very fragrant bean from the get-go. Loved the berries & floral as I was grinding this bean. This ended up being a very berry forward cold brew. Like a mixed berry jelly from your favorite diner. Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, cherries. Sweet & tart. Nice and bright like naturals are due to the fermenting of the fruit with the seed still inside. This was a very tasty cold brew. Super stroked to tell you guys about their barrel-aged beans I have. This was my first Hawaiian coffee and this will be a hard one to beat. These guys are doing great things! 

   Thanks again to Kate & Doug & Sunshower Farms for the amazing beans. Be on the lookout for their other bean features soon to come.

Make sure and grab some of these beans before they are gone:  sunshowercoffee.com



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