Kaʻū Morning Glory
HoneyMedium-LightSCA 97.0★ 5.0 (101)Northscore 83
- Origin
- Kaʻū, US
- Producer
- Big Island Coffee Roasters
- Farm / Co-op
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- Altitude
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- Varietals
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- Harvest
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- Weight
- 283g
- Price / oz
- $3.91/oz
- Brew
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As cupped
pecan · brown_sugar · apricot · vanilla · citrus · bright · buttery · sweet · floral · honey · coffee blossoms
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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
83
High confidence
Confidence85% coverage / 4 of 4 signals
Multiple independent source families support this score. Coverage is signal availability, not cup quality; missing sources are dropped and the remaining weights are renormalized.
- 95/ 29% weightSensory averageMean of acidity, body, sweetness, balance, cleanliness
- 85/ 26% weightSCA gradeRoaster-published cupping score
- 85/ 21% weightCoffee ReviewMean score from coffeereview.com
- 50/ 24% weightCommunity sentimentSentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
Bonuses applied
- +3Customer reviews (strong)Customers have rated this coffee 4.5+ stars with 10+ reviews
Base weighted score: 79.7 + bonuses = 83
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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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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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