Aloha to you all!
This is Hasan (with Hussain) telling you about our fun and interesting trip to the Big Island of Hawaii. The main reason we came was to see Kona coffee, which is grown only in the Kona districts on the island's west coast. The coffee farms are close to the ocean, and because many tourists visit them, they are easy to reach by car.
More than 10 coffee farms, plus several Kona coffee shops and museums, are lined up along the central west coast of the island. Most of the farms offer public tours of their fields and processing areas. It was a beautiful sunny day when my brother and I visited the fields of tall, bushy coffee plants. Workers hand-pick about 4 to 5 bags of red coffee cherries each per day. Next, the fruit goes into water: the good cherries sink, and the bad ones float and are skimmed off. The good cherries go into a tank to ferment overnight. The next morning, the beans are spread on mats under a canopy to dry for about 8 days. Once dry, they are milled into green coffee beans and roasted until dark. Workers then bag the beans by hand.
We tasted many coffee products in the showroom, and the coffee is wonderful. Hussain and I are crazy about the chocolate-covered Kona beans! I think they made him a little hyper.
Until next time, aloha again. It also means "goodbye."
Hasan
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