Mountain Thunder – Private Reserve Kona July 15, 2009
I first got hooked on premium coffee during our honeymoon in Hawaii. I’d been a coffee drinker for years but always had the normal stuff, something from a bagel shop or a Starbucks ground blend from the grocery store. It wasn’t until Hawaii that I had really good coffee, and couldn’t go back.
Coffee from the island of Kona has this mystical aura to it. It’s the only place where good coffee comes from in the USA. I remember seeing an episode of Dirty Jobs where Mike Rowe went to work at a Kona coffee farm called Mountain Thunder. I loved the episode and I wanted to support the farm so I purchased a few bags back then. I haven’t tried them in years until my wife got me a few bags for Fathers Day.
The Mountain Thunder Private Reserve Kona is a great cup of coffee. There’s a strong coffee taste to it, nothing fruity about it. I definitely taste a nice mellow chocolate sweetness to it, especially towards the end of the cup. I’m not blown away though, some of these Counter Culture coffees are much better to me.
Before you go out and start buying Kona coffee as your daily cup, check the price. This 1 lb bag of Kona was $45! It’s justifiably high, there’s only a small amount of beans that can be grown in the area and it’s a manual process, the terrain is too hilly. That would be all fine and good if the coffee was, say, twice as good as my beloved Huehuetenango, but it’s not. I can get 3x the coffee that I love for the same price. Tough sell for me.
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