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Big Island Coffee Roasters

Ka'u Darkwood

WashedDarkSCA 93.0★ 4.8 (65)Northscore 63
Origin
Hawaii, US
Farm / Co-op
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Process
Washed
Altitude
—
Varietals
typica
Harvest
—
Weight
283g
Bag price
$35.00
Price / oz
$3.51/oz
Brew
espresso, filter, immersion, cold_brew

As cupped

fudge · molasses · spruce · blackberry · vanilla · smooth · full bodied · dark chocolate · hazelnut · sorghum · date · magnolia · crisp · velvety

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Roasts daily

Roasts most weekdays, so most orders ship within a day or two of the roast date.

“Orders are roasted Sunday-Friday and shipped Monday-Friday.” source ↗

Northscore

Quality score with explicit source coverage. Methodology

63

Moderate confidence

Confidence60% coverage / 3 of 4 signals

Enough source signal for comparison, but not every source family is present. Coverage is signal availability, not cup quality; missing sources are dropped and the remaining weights are renormalized.

Missing: Sensory average

  • SCA grade
    Roaster-published cupping score
    65/ 37% weight
  • Coffee Review
    Mean score from coffeereview.com
    65/ 30% weight
  • Community sentiment
    Sentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
    50/ 33% weight

Bonuses applied

  • Customer reviews (strong)
    Customers have rated this coffee 4.5+ stars with 10+ reviews
    +3

Base weighted score: 60.0 + bonuses = 63

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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.

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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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