Hawaii Miranda Farms Red Catuai Water Pillow Process

Yellow Fruits, Hibiscus, Shortbread Hawaii is one of the more misunderstood origins in the specialty coffee world. On the one hand, it's got a long-running reputation for high-end brews, most notably from Kona. On the other, many Hawaiian bags tend to be as over-roasted as they are underwhelming. This coffee breaks the mold and proves that a good Hawaiian brew earns every ounce of the islands' sterling reputation. Miranda Farms sits in Ka'u, an up-and-coming growing region just south of Kona. Over the past few years, it's made quite a splash, taking first place in Hawaii's statewide cupping competition multiple times. With trees ranging from Yellow Caturra to Typica to Geisha and Red Catuai, the place is a coffee lover's paradise, and the Miranda family is constantly experimenting with new processing methods. For this lot, they took a batch of pure Red Catuai and put it through an unusual Anoxic Water Pillow Method. The Water Pillow Process involves placing a plastic sheet over coffe