Kona Geisha
2018 Hawaii Grand Champion
Medium-LightNorthscore 64
- Origin
- Kona, US
- Producer
- Stille family
- Farm / Co-op
- Monarch Estate
- Process
- —
- Altitude
- —
- Varietals
- geisha
- Harvest
- 2018
- Weight
- 113g
- Bag price
- $44.00
- Price / oz
- $11.04/oz
- Brew
- —
As cupped
pomegranate · apple · jasmine · pecan pie
From the editors
This lot is no longer available at the roaster.
We last reached the roaster’s page for this coffee 0 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
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Northscore
Quality score with explicit source coverage. Methodology
64
Limited signal
Confidence45% coverage / 2 of 4 signals
Treat this as a directional read until more source families land. Coverage is signal availability, not cup quality; missing sources are dropped and the remaining weights are renormalized.
Missing: SCA grade, Coffee Review
- 75/ 56% weightSensory averageMean of acidity, body, sweetness, balance, cleanliness
- 50/ 44% weightCommunity sentimentSentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
Sensory profileestimated
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Tasting flight
Taste this against three others Cherry picks.
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Reference · About the varietal & origin
About Big Island Coffee Roasters
Community reputation · Reddit
Polarizing· sentiment 50/100
The provided Reddit threads do not contain any substantive discussion, reviews, or mentions of "Big Island Coffee Roasters." While there are several threads discussing coffee from Hawaii, Kona, and the Big Island, none of them reference this specific roaster. Consequently, there is no community sentiment to report.
no community data availablegeneral discussion of Hawaiian coffeeno mentions of this specific roaster
Threads cited (10)
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- r/espresso · 726↑ · Taking full control. Step one, grow some coffee.
- r/pourover · 315↑ · Top 50 Coffee Roasters of 2025
- r/pourover · 221↑ · My crazy Hong Kong pourover experience
- r/pourover · 147↑ · Finally Found my Go-To Pourover Recipe - or "Why Brewing Bad Coffee was a Good Thing"
- r/Coffee · 146↑ · Our new house on the big island of Hawaii has loads of different plants growing on the pro
- r/Coffee · 137↑ · Aloha! let us discuss the Hawai'ian coffees.
- r/pourover · 128↑ · Kona Coffee is disappointing
- r/espresso · 116↑ · My very first coffee setup!
- r/Coffee · 110↑ · Source for Kona?
On YouTube · Reviewers discussing Big Island Coffee Roasters
YouTube reviewers have published 8 popular videos about Big Island Coffee Roasters (49,875 combined views). Channels include Eric the Coffee Guy, Freely Inspired, Home-Made Edition and others.
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