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Big Island Coffee Roasters

Ka'u Yellow Bourbon

WashedMedium-LightSCA 95.0Northscore 66
Origin
Ka'u, US
Farm / Co-op
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Process
Washed
Altitude
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Varietals
yellow_bourbon
Harvest
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Weight
283g
Bag price
$44.00
Price / oz
$4.41/oz
Brew
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As cupped

juicy pineapple · rose · white grape · cucumber · raw almond · wisteria · dried peach · cocoa nib · tangerine · oak forest · myrrh-like note

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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

66

Moderate confidence

Confidence70% 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: Coffee Review

  • SCA grade
    Roaster-published cupping score
    75/ 36% weight
  • Sensory average
    Mean of acidity, body, sweetness, balance, cleanliness
    70/ 36% weight
  • Community sentiment
    Sentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
    50/ 29% weight

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About Big Island Coffee Roasters

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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

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