Ka'u Classic Dark Roast
Medium-DarkSCA cup 95.067Cherry's Index
Cup profile
dark chocolate · black cherry · roasted hazelnut · orange peel · cedar · velvety-smooth body · cocoa-driven
- Fruit
- Citrus
- Cocoa and nut
- Sugar and spice
- Unclassified
- Origin
- Ka'u, US
- Producer
- Rusty's Hawaiian
- Farm / Co-op
- —
- Process
- —
- Altitude
- —
- Varietals
- typica
- Harvest
- —
- Weight
- 200g
- Bag price
- $22.50
- Price / oz
- $3.19/oz
- Brew
- —
from the roaster’s storeread by Cherrybook from the listing“estimated” below = inferred, not stated
Price and availability set by the roaster.
Batch roasted weekly
Roasted on a scheduled weekly rhythm. Very fresh if you order right after a roast day; less so near the end of the cycle.
“Our main roasting days are Tuesday, Thursday & Sunday, and we also roast small batches between those scheduled dates” source ↗
Cherrybook last checked this listing 6 days ago.
Cherry's Index
Evidence-of-quality score, not a cup score. Methodology
67
Noted
High confidence
Confidence63% coverage / 4 of 7 signals
Multiple independent source families support this score at full weight.
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 0% so one thin signal cannot carry the score on its own.
Missing: YouTube reviews, Buyer reviews, Cherrybook tastings
- 75/ 35% weightSCA gradeRoaster-published cupping score
- 75/ 29% weightReddit sentimentSentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
- 65/ 28% weightCoffee ReviewMean score from coffeereview.com
- 60/ 8% weightRoaster transparencyProducer / farm / lot disclosure depth
Bonuses applied
- +-4Stale-stock demotionThis lot has been listed in stock for an extended time; specialty coffee freshness degrades over weeks
Base weighted score: 71.0 + bonuses = 67
Sensory profileestimated
- Acidity
- 2
- Body
- 4
- Sweetness
- 3
- Balance
- 4
- Clean
- 4
Flavor wheelestimated
Comps & alternatives
Tasting flight
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Reference · About the varietal & origin
About Rusty's Hawaiian
Community reputation · Reddit
Well-regarded· sentiment 75/100
Rusty's Hawaiian is mentioned only once in the provided threads, specifically by a user who purchased their Ka‘u Classic Medium Roast as a first step into specialty coffee. There is no broader community discussion or consensus regarding the roaster's quality, reputation, or specific coffee profiles in these threads. The conversation in that thread focused entirely on brewing equipment advice for a beginner rather than the coffee itself.
limited community discussionmentioned by beginner coffee drinkersno consensus on quality
On YouTube
1 video · 128k combined views
1 video covers Rusty's Hawaiian from reviewer WholeFoodsMarket.