Organic Kona Coffee Farm and Mill Tour
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Trip Type: Coffee & Tea Tours
Duration: 2 hours
The Mountain Thunder Coffee Plantation on the Big Island of Hawaii is surely one of the greatest activities in the Kona Area. Mountain Thunder is an Organic Kona Coffee farm that has a stint towards excellence. Over the past fifteen years, the plantation has won every contest that it has entered. Venues in the local, regional, national, and international arenas have all yielded outlandish accolades that place this plantation at the top of the list. Transportation is not included.
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The Mountain Thunder Coffee Plantation on the Big Island of Hawaii is surely one of the greatest activities in the Kona Area. Mountain Thunder is an Organic Kona Coffee farm that has a stint towards excellence. Over the past fifteen years, the plantation has won every contest that it has entered. Venues in the local, regional, national, and international arenas have all yielded outlandish accolades that place this plantation at the top of the list. Transportation is not included.The tour starts at the Mountain Thunder Coffee Plantation visitor center for Kona coffee and Hawaiian tea tasting. While enjoying the free samples, we offer viewing of our Discovery Channel feature about Kona coffee. It was filmed at Mountain Thunder’s Kaloko cloud forest farm and mill with the famous Mike Rowe from the Dirty Jobs series. The show takes the visitor through all of the processes from seed to cup and then you get to follow Mike’s footsteps.
Next we go on a short walk through the cloud forest by an ancient lava tubes, wild ginger, vanilla, green tea & Mamaki tea plants to our coffee orchard. At the coffee orchard, visitors learn how Kona coffee is grown. They are welcome to pick and taste the sweet red coffee fruit. They also can see the coffee flowers and maturing green fruit on the trees amongst an ancient Ohia rain forest with passion fruit vines abound. They can feed our grazing Kona nightingale donkeys, Saint Croix sheep, Muscovy ducks, white Chinese geese, and Toulouse geese at the ocean view gazebo lookout. Also around the farm we have: wild parrots, pheasants, quail, peacocks, chickens, Hawaiian hawks (ka’io), ducks, endangered Hawaiian birds and our Hawaiian pet pig named Ezzy.
After the orchard, we head back to the visitor center for restroom and refreshment break. Next it’s off to the wet mill to learn how to pulp the coffee fruit. Also at the wet mill, visitors learn how coffee is fermented and dried. After the wet mill we go to the dry mill located by the visitor center. At the dry mill, visitors learn about hulling, sizing, grading, and color sorting of the different grades of Kona coffee. This is where they see what separates world famous Mountain Thunder Kona Coffee from the rest.
The final stop is at the roasting kitchen to learn about our profile roasting and chat with The State of Hawaii’s Current Barista Champion and see coffee being freshly roasted that you may purchase to take home from the patch you saw being roasted.
THIS ORGANIC COFFEE FARM TOUR:
Next we go on a short walk through the cloud forest by an ancient lava tubes, wild ginger, vanilla, green tea & Mamaki tea plants to our coffee orchard. At the coffee orchard, visitors learn how Kona coffee is grown. They are welcome to pick and taste the sweet red coffee fruit. They also can see the coffee flowers and maturing green fruit on the trees amongst an ancient Ohia rain forest with passion fruit vines abound. They can feed our grazing Kona nightingale donkeys, Saint Croix sheep, Muscovy ducks, white Chinese geese, and Toulouse geese at the ocean view gazebo lookout. Also around the farm we have: wild parrots, pheasants, quail, peacocks, chickens, Hawaiian hawks (ka’io), ducks, endangered Hawaiian birds and our Hawaiian pet pig named Ezzy.
After the orchard, we head back to the visitor center for restroom and refreshment break. Next it’s off to the wet mill to learn how to pulp the coffee fruit. Also at the wet mill, visitors learn how coffee is fermented and dried. After the wet mill we go to the dry mill located by the visitor center. At the dry mill, visitors learn about hulling, sizing, grading, and color sorting of the different grades of Kona coffee. This is where they see what separates world famous Mountain Thunder Kona Coffee from the rest.
The final stop is at the roasting kitchen to learn about our profile roasting and chat with The State of Hawaii’s Current Barista Champion and see coffee being freshly roasted that you may purchase to take home from the patch you saw being roasted.
THIS ORGANIC COFFEE FARM TOUR:
- BEGINS 10:00AM MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
- TAKES APPROXIMATELY 2 HOURS
- WEAR COMFORTABLE WALKING SHOES
- COSTS $65.00 PER PERSON, CHILDREN UNDER 9 YEARS OLD ARE HALF PRICE, CHILDREN UNDER 4 YEARS OLD ARE FREE
- TOUR BEGINS 10:00AM MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
- IS AVAILABLE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY, 24 HOURS PRIOR BOOKING REQUIRED
- HOT DOGS, POPCORN, COOKIES FRUIT & HAWAIIAN SODAS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE
- INCLUDES FREE COFFEE AND TEA TASTING
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