Unroasted 100% Kona Washed Process green coffee beans in a burlap sack at Aloha Star Coffee in South Kona, Hawaiʻi.
Close-up of 100% Kona Washed Process coffee beans in their parchment layer at Aloha Star Coffee’s family farm in South Kona, Hawaiʻi.
Infographic showing our Washed Kona coffee process: picking, floating, pulping, fermentation, washing, drying, milling, and roasting.
Unroasted 100% Kona Washed Process green coffee beans in a burlap sack at Aloha Star Coffee in South Kona, Hawaiʻi.
Close-up of 100% Kona Washed Process coffee beans in their parchment layer at Aloha Star Coffee’s family farm in South Kona, Hawaiʻi.
Infographic showing our Washed Kona coffee process: picking, floating, pulping, fermentation, washing, drying, milling, and roasting.

100% Kona Green Coffee — Washed Process

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Estate-Grown 100% Kona Green Coffee — Classic Washed Process

CLASSIC KONA PROCESS • STATEWIDE TOP-TEN WINNER • ESTATE-GROWN

Estate-grown. Hand-picked. Washed 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.

Prepared using the traditional Washed Process—also called the parchment-dried method—this coffee offers home and professional roasters a clean, balanced, and versatile expression of classic Kona coffee.

Washed processing allows the coffee’s origin, varieties, growing conditions, and roast development to remain at the center of the cup. It is an excellent choice for roasters seeking clarity, smoothness, balanced acidity, and a flavor profile that can be developed across multiple roast levels.

The Classic Kona Processing Method

Washed processing is the traditional method most closely associated with classic Kona coffee.

After ripe red coffee cherries are hand-picked, the outer skin and fruit are removed. The pulped coffee is then carefully fermented and washed to remove the remaining mucilage surrounding the parchment-covered seeds. The coffee is subsequently sun-dried with its protective parchment layer intact.

By removing the fruit before drying, the Washed Process emphasizes the coffee’s inherent flavor characteristics and produces a clean, structured cup.

No flavors, sweeteners, or additives are used.

Expected Roast Potential

This Washed green coffee is highly versatile and can be developed across several roast levels:

  • Medium-light roast: Clean sweetness, gentle fruit, balanced acidity, and a smooth finish.

  • Medium roast: Caramel, milk chocolate, subtle fruit, roasted nuts, and a balanced body.

  • Full City or medium-dark roast: Deeper chocolate, caramelized sugar, toasted nuts, reduced acidity, and fuller body.

  • Dark roast: Dark cocoa, toasted character, rich body, and a bold finish with minimal acidity.

These are expected roast possibilities rather than added flavors. The final flavor profile will depend on the roasting equipment, batch size, heat application, roast development, resting period, and brewing method.

Choose This Green Coffee If You Want

  • A classic Washed Kona coffee profile

  • Clean, balanced, and versatile roast potential

  • A coffee that can be developed from medium-light through dark

  • Clearly traceable, single-estate 100% Kona coffee

  • A statewide award-winning green coffee

  • A dependable coffee for drip, pour-over, espresso, French press, or cold brew after roasting

  • Green coffee grown and shipped directly from the producing farm

For Home and Professional Roasters

Green coffee must be roasted before it can be ground or brewed.

Because roasting behavior varies by machine, batch size, airflow, heat application, and desired development, we recommend beginning with a small test batch and documenting your settings.

Allow the roasted coffee to rest before evaluating the cup. Adjust subsequent batches based on the balance of sweetness, acidity, body, chocolate character, and roast intensity you wish to develop.

An award-winning classic Washed Kona coffee

In June 2021, Aloha Star Coffee earned Sixth Place and a Statewide Top-Ten Award in the Hawaiʻi Coffee Association Statewide Cupping Competition.

Our Washed Kona Typica coffee received a score of 85.85 points, placing less than one point behind the competition’s highest score of 86.63. This was our first time participating in the Hawaiʻi Coffee Association competition. The official results identify the entry as:

Aloha Star Coffee Farms — Typica — Washed — Kona — 85.85 points

This is a particularly valuable award for marketing this green coffee because it recognizes the quality of the same combination of origin, variety, and Washed processing offered to roasters. The result can be verified in the official 2021 Hawaiʻi Coffee Association Top Ten results.

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Subscribe and save 10% on recurring deliveries of our Classic Washed 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.

Estate-Grown 100% Kona Green Coffee — Classic Washed Process

CLASSIC KONA PROCESS • STATEWIDE TOP-TEN WINNER • ESTATE-GROWN

Estate-grown. Hand-picked. Washed 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.

Prepared using the traditional Washed Process—also called the parchment-dried method—this coffee offers home and professional roasters a clean, balanced, and versatile expression of classic Kona coffee.

Washed processing allows the coffee’s origin, varieties, growing conditions, and roast development to remain at the center of the cup. It is an excellent choice for roasters seeking clarity, smoothness, balanced acidity, and a flavor profile that can be developed across multiple roast levels.

The Classic Kona Processing Method

Washed processing is the traditional method most closely associated with classic Kona coffee.

After ripe red coffee cherries are hand-picked, the outer skin and fruit are removed. The pulped coffee is then carefully fermented and washed to remove the remaining mucilage surrounding the parchment-covered seeds. The coffee is subsequently sun-dried with its protective parchment layer intact.

By removing the fruit before drying, the Washed Process emphasizes the coffee’s inherent flavor characteristics and produces a clean, structured cup.

No flavors, sweeteners, or additives are used.

Expected Roast Potential

This Washed green coffee is highly versatile and can be developed across several roast levels:

  • Medium-light roast: Clean sweetness, gentle fruit, balanced acidity, and a smooth finish.

  • Medium roast: Caramel, milk chocolate, subtle fruit, roasted nuts, and a balanced body.

  • Full City or medium-dark roast: Deeper chocolate, caramelized sugar, toasted nuts, reduced acidity, and fuller body.

  • Dark roast: Dark cocoa, toasted character, rich body, and a bold finish with minimal acidity.

These are expected roast possibilities rather than added flavors. The final flavor profile will depend on the roasting equipment, batch size, heat application, roast development, resting period, and brewing method.

Choose This Green Coffee If You Want

  • A classic Washed Kona coffee profile

  • Clean, balanced, and versatile roast potential

  • A coffee that can be developed from medium-light through dark

  • Clearly traceable, single-estate 100% Kona coffee

  • A statewide award-winning green coffee

  • A dependable coffee for drip, pour-over, espresso, French press, or cold brew after roasting

  • Green coffee grown and shipped directly from the producing farm

For Home and Professional Roasters

Green coffee must be roasted before it can be ground or brewed.

Because roasting behavior varies by machine, batch size, airflow, heat application, and desired development, we recommend beginning with a small test batch and documenting your settings.

Allow the roasted coffee to rest before evaluating the cup. Adjust subsequent batches based on the balance of sweetness, acidity, body, chocolate character, and roast intensity you wish to develop.

An award-winning classic Washed Kona coffee

In June 2021, Aloha Star Coffee earned Sixth Place and a Statewide Top-Ten Award in the Hawaiʻi Coffee Association Statewide Cupping Competition.

Our Washed Kona Typica coffee received a score of 85.85 points, placing less than one point behind the competition’s highest score of 86.63. This was our first time participating in the Hawaiʻi Coffee Association competition. The official results identify the entry as:

Aloha Star Coffee Farms — Typica — Washed — Kona — 85.85 points

This is a particularly valuable award for marketing this green coffee because it recognizes the quality of the same combination of origin, variety, and Washed processing offered to roasters. The result can be verified in the official 2021 Hawaiʻi Coffee Association Top Ten results.

Subscribe & Save

Subscribe and save 10% on recurring deliveries of our Classic Washed 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.

Product details

  • Product: Unroasted 100% Kona green coffee

  • Origin: Aloha Star 100% Kona Coffee Farm, Honomalino Acres, South Kona, Hawaiʻi

  • Farm: Single-estate and family-owned

  • Processing method: Washed Process, also called Parchment-Dried

  • Coffee type: Arabica

  • Varieties: Kona Typica, Red Bourbon, and SL34, harvested and processed together

  • Harvesting: Selectively hand-picked when ripe

  • Processing: Pulped, fermented, washed, and dried in parchment

  • Drying method: Sun-dried

  • Bean grades: A combination of official 100% Kona bean grades, including Extra Fancy (#19), Fancy (#18), and No. 1 (#16)

  • Preparation: Dry-milled in small batches and optically sorted

  • Moisture content: Approximately 9%–12% at the time of preparation

  • Storage: Stored in its protective parchment layer in hermetic, food-grade bags inside our temperature-controlled storage room until milling

  • Additives: None

  • Condition: Milled, unroasted, and ready for roasting

  • Shipping: Shipped directly from our South Kona farm

Frequently Asked Questions

  • No. This product contains unroasted green coffee beans. The beans must be roasted before they can be ground or brewed.Description text goes here

  • Yes. This coffee is grown exclusively on our family farm in the Kona coffee-growing district of Hawaiʻi Island. It is not a Kona blend and does not contain coffee from other growing regions.

  • In the Washed Process, the skin, fruit, and mucilage surrounding the coffee seeds are removed before drying. After pulping, the coffee is carefully fermented, washed, and then sun-dried inside its protective parchment layer.

  • Washed processing is the traditional method most closely associated with Kona coffee. It produces the clean, smooth, and balanced cup many customers recognize as the classic Kona profile.

  • Washed coffee has its mucilage removed before drying, generally emphasizing clarity, balance, and the coffee’s inherent characteristics.

    With Honey Process coffee, some mucilage remains attached during drying, which can contribute additional fruit character, sweetness, and body. Choose Washed for a more classic Kona expression and Honey for Aloha Star’s sweeter, more fruit-forward signature profile.

  • No. No flavorings, sweeteners, or additives are used. Any chocolate, caramel, fruit, or nutty notes developed after roasting occur naturally through the coffee variety, growing conditions, processing, roasting, and brewing.

  • The final flavor profile depends on the roast. Medium-light development can emphasize clean sweetness, gentle fruit, and balanced acidity. Medium development can bring forward caramel, milk chocolate, and roasted nuts. Darker roasts generally produce deeper cocoa, toasted flavors, fuller body, and lower perceived acidity.

  • For a traditional, balanced Kona cup, begin with a medium-light or medium roast. A Full City roast is an excellent choice for deeper chocolate and caramel notes. The coffee can also be dark roasted for customers who prefer a bold cup with lower acidity.

  • This estate-grown coffee includes Arabica varieties grown on our farm, including Kona Typica, Red Bourbon, and SL34. The varieties are harvested and processed together to create the farm’s balanced Washed coffee profile.

  • Yes. Its versatility makes it a practical option for both beginning and experienced home roasters. Begin with a small batch, record your settings, and make gradual adjustments based on the results.

  • We keep the dried coffee protected in its parchment layer inside hermetic, food-grade bags in our temperature-controlled storage room. It is milled in small batches, optically sorted, and shipped directly from our farm.

  • Yes. For quantities of 25 pounds or more, samples, current-harvest details, or professional-roaster pricing, contact sales@alohastarcoffee.com or (808) 987-5277.