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Big Island Coffee Roasters

Kona Geisha

2018 Hawaii Grand Champion

Medium-Light69Cherry's Index

Cup profile

pomegranate · apple · jasmine · pecan pie

  • Fruit
  • Floral
  • Cocoa and nut
Kona Geisha by Big Island Coffee Roasters
Origin
Kona, US
Farm / Co-op
Monarch Estate
Process
—
Altitude
—
Varietals
geisha
Harvest
2018
Weight
113g
Bag price
$44.00
Price / oz
$11.04/oz
Brew
—

from the roaster’s storeread by Cherrybook from the listing“estimated” below = inferred, not stated

From the editors

This lot is no longer available at the roaster.

We last reached the roaster’s page for this coffee 3 days ago. It now returns a not-found or members-only response — we’ve archived the buy link so we don’t send anyone to a dead page. The notes, sensory chart, and editorial context below remain useful as a record of what this lot offered.

No longer available at the roaster

Last verified 3 days ago.

Cherry's Index

Evidence-of-quality score, not a cup score. Methodology

69

Noted

Preliminary

Confidence33% coverage / 3 of 7 signals

Score is partially shrunk toward a neutral 50 — read directionally until more source families land.

How confidence affects the score

Coverage measures signal availability, not cup quality. Missing sources are dropped, remaining weights are renormalized, and the result is shrunk toward a neutral 50 baseline by 18% so one thin signal cannot carry the score on its own.

Missing: SCA grade, Coffee Review, Buyer reviews, Cherrybook tastings

  • YouTube reviews
    Sentiment from third-party YouTube reviewer mentions
    80/ 30% weight
  • Reddit sentiment
    Sentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
    70/ 55% weight
  • Roaster transparency
    Producer / farm / lot disclosure depth
    65/ 15% weight

Bonuses applied

  • Editorial coverage cluster
    This roaster has 3+ recent editorial mentions across trade press
    +1

Renormalized base 72.3 shrunk to 68.4 at 83% confidence + bonuses = 69.

Sensory profileestimated

Acidity
5
Body
2
Sweetness
4
Balance
4
Clean
5

Flavor wheelestimated

Comps & alternatives

Tasting flight

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Reference · About the varietal & origin

About Big Island Coffee Roasters

Community reputation · Reddit

Well-regarded· sentiment 70/100

Big Island Coffee Roasters is mentioned in the context of Hawaiian coffee sourcing, regional farming (Puna, Kona, Ka'u), and travel, but the provided threads do not contain specific reviews or discussions directly evaluating their roasted coffee offerings.

Hawaiian coffee sourcingRegional farms and roastersTravel and farm visits
Threads cited (7)
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