Estate-Grown 100% Kona Green Coffee — Our Signature Honey Process
Estate-grown. Hand-picked. Honey processed. Unroasted and ready for your roast.
This award-winning 100% Kona green coffee is grown, processed, stored, milled, and shipped directly from our family farm in South Kona, Hawaiʻi. It is crafted using the Honey Process—the signature processing method of Aloha Star Coffee—for roasters seeking a sweet, fruit-forward expression of authentic Kona coffee.
While the Washed Process is Kona’s traditional processing method, Honey Process coffee is less commonly produced in Hawaiʻi. At Aloha Star, it is not an occasional experiment: it is a defining part of our farm and the processing method for which our coffee has received national and Kona cupping recognition.
What Is the Honey Process?
After ripe red coffee cherries are hand-picked, the outer skin is removed while some of the fruit’s natural mucilage remains around the parchment-covered seeds. Instead of removing that mucilage through the fermentation and washing stages used in traditional Washed processing, we carefully sun-dry the coffee with the mucilage still attached.
This sticky, honey-like texture during drying gives the process its name. No honey, flavoring, sugar, or other ingredients are added.
Honey processing can bring together the clean structure associated with Washed coffee and some of the fruit intensity and sweetness associated with Natural coffee. The final flavor profile will depend on the roaster, equipment, roast development, and brewing method.
Expected Roast Potential
This versatile green coffee can be developed across several roast levels:
Medium-light roast: Fruit-forward character, honeyed sweetness, lively acidity, and a clean finish.
Medium roast: Caramel, brown sugar, cocoa, ripe fruit, balanced sweetness, and a rounded body.
Full City or medium-dark roast: Deeper chocolate, toasted-nut, and caramelized-sugar notes, with fuller body and more subdued fruit.
Dark roast: Rich cocoa and roasty depth for customers who prefer a bold cup, although the most delicate fruit notes will become less prominent.
These are expected roast possibilities rather than added flavors. No flavorings or additives are used.
Choose This Green Coffee If You Want
Authentic farm-direct 100% Kona green coffee
A balance of sweetness, fruit, body, and clarity
A distinctive alternative to traditional Washed Kona coffee
A versatile coffee suitable for multiple roast profiles
An award-winning coffee produced with Aloha Star’s signature processing method
Traceable, single-estate coffee shipped directly from the producing farm
For Home and Professional Roasters
Green coffee must be roasted before it can be ground or brewed. Roast behavior will vary according to your roasting machine, batch size, heat application, airflow, and desired development.
We recommend beginning with a small test batch, documenting your roast settings, and allowing the roasted coffee to rest before evaluating the cup. Adjust subsequent batches according to the sweetness, acidity, body, and fruit character you wish to emphasize.
An award-winning expression of our Signature Honey Process
Our Honey Process coffee has earned recognition in both Kona and national competitions:
2023 Good Food Award winner: Listed as “Aloha Star Coffee — Kona,” roasted and submitted by Pacific Coffee Research.
2025 Good Food Awards Community Choice winner: Listed as “Aloha Star Kona Coffee,” roasted and submitted by Pacific Coffee Research.
2018 Kona Coffee Cultural Festival Cupping Competition: Third Place in the Classic Division, in our first year entering the competition.
2019 Kona Coffee Cultural Festival Cupping Competition: Eighth Place and a Top-Ten finish in the Classic Division.
The official Good Food Awards listings identify the Aloha Star coffee and Pacific Coffee Research as the roaster that prepared and entered it. This distinction preserves appropriate credit while making it clear that Aloha Star grew and produced the award-winning coffee. 2023 Good Food Awards winners and 2025 Good Food Awards winners.
Farm-Direct Traceability
This coffee is grown, hand-picked, Honey processed (pulp-dried), milled, optically sorted, packaged, and shipped directly from Aloha Star 100% Kona Coffee Farm in South Kona, Hawaiʻi.
Subscribe & Save
Subscribe and save 10% on recurring deliveries of our Signature Honey Process green coffee. Select your preferred delivery frequency before adding the coffee to your cart.
Larger and wholesale quantities
For quantities of 25 pounds or more, current-harvest information, samples, or professional-roaster and wholesale inquiries, please contact us at sales@alohastarcoffee.com or (808) 987-5277.
✓ Free U.S. shipping automatically applies to orders of $99 or more.
Estate-Grown 100% Kona Green Coffee — Our Signature Honey Process
Estate-grown. Hand-picked. Honey processed. Unroasted and ready for your roast.
This award-winning 100% Kona green coffee is grown, processed, stored, milled, and shipped directly from our family farm in South Kona, Hawaiʻi. It is crafted using the Honey Process—the signature processing method of Aloha Star Coffee—for roasters seeking a sweet, fruit-forward expression of authentic Kona coffee.
While the Washed Process is Kona’s traditional processing method, Honey Process coffee is less commonly produced in Hawaiʻi. At Aloha Star, it is not an occasional experiment: it is a defining part of our farm and the processing method for which our coffee has received national and Kona cupping recognition.
What Is the Honey Process?
After ripe red coffee cherries are hand-picked, the outer skin is removed while some of the fruit’s natural mucilage remains around the parchment-covered seeds. Instead of removing that mucilage through the fermentation and washing stages used in traditional Washed processing, we carefully sun-dry the coffee with the mucilage still attached.
This sticky, honey-like texture during drying gives the process its name. No honey, flavoring, sugar, or other ingredients are added.
Honey processing can bring together the clean structure associated with Washed coffee and some of the fruit intensity and sweetness associated with Natural coffee. The final flavor profile will depend on the roaster, equipment, roast development, and brewing method.
Expected Roast Potential
This versatile green coffee can be developed across several roast levels:
Medium-light roast: Fruit-forward character, honeyed sweetness, lively acidity, and a clean finish.
Medium roast: Caramel, brown sugar, cocoa, ripe fruit, balanced sweetness, and a rounded body.
Full City or medium-dark roast: Deeper chocolate, toasted-nut, and caramelized-sugar notes, with fuller body and more subdued fruit.
Dark roast: Rich cocoa and roasty depth for customers who prefer a bold cup, although the most delicate fruit notes will become less prominent.
These are expected roast possibilities rather than added flavors. No flavorings or additives are used.
Choose This Green Coffee If You Want
Authentic farm-direct 100% Kona green coffee
A balance of sweetness, fruit, body, and clarity
A distinctive alternative to traditional Washed Kona coffee
A versatile coffee suitable for multiple roast profiles
An award-winning coffee produced with Aloha Star’s signature processing method
Traceable, single-estate coffee shipped directly from the producing farm
For Home and Professional Roasters
Green coffee must be roasted before it can be ground or brewed. Roast behavior will vary according to your roasting machine, batch size, heat application, airflow, and desired development.
We recommend beginning with a small test batch, documenting your roast settings, and allowing the roasted coffee to rest before evaluating the cup. Adjust subsequent batches according to the sweetness, acidity, body, and fruit character you wish to emphasize.
An award-winning expression of our Signature Honey Process
Our Honey Process coffee has earned recognition in both Kona and national competitions:
2023 Good Food Award winner: Listed as “Aloha Star Coffee — Kona,” roasted and submitted by Pacific Coffee Research.
2025 Good Food Awards Community Choice winner: Listed as “Aloha Star Kona Coffee,” roasted and submitted by Pacific Coffee Research.
2018 Kona Coffee Cultural Festival Cupping Competition: Third Place in the Classic Division, in our first year entering the competition.
2019 Kona Coffee Cultural Festival Cupping Competition: Eighth Place and a Top-Ten finish in the Classic Division.
The official Good Food Awards listings identify the Aloha Star coffee and Pacific Coffee Research as the roaster that prepared and entered it. This distinction preserves appropriate credit while making it clear that Aloha Star grew and produced the award-winning coffee. 2023 Good Food Awards winners and 2025 Good Food Awards winners.
Farm-Direct Traceability
This coffee is grown, hand-picked, Honey processed (pulp-dried), milled, optically sorted, packaged, and shipped directly from Aloha Star 100% Kona Coffee Farm in South Kona, Hawaiʻi.
Subscribe & Save
Subscribe and save 10% on recurring deliveries of our Signature Honey Process green coffee. Select your preferred delivery frequency before adding the coffee to your cart.
Larger and wholesale quantities
For quantities of 25 pounds or more, current-harvest information, samples, or professional-roaster and wholesale inquiries, please contact us at sales@alohastarcoffee.com or (808) 987-5277.
✓ Free U.S. shipping automatically applies to orders of $99 or more.
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