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10/28/2026

What helps Hawaiʻi coffee producers move forward? Opportunities to keep learning and connections that extend beyond the farm.

Coffee quality and market access go hand in hand. Understanding processing decisions helps producers make informed choices about their coffee. Learning about new market tools helps them explore ways to share it.

This week, HCA is bringing both conversations to our community:

☕ Thursday, October 29: Join Lee Safar of Map It Forward for an introduction to CoffeeListings.com, including how to create listings for coffee, equipment, and services.
8:30 AM HST • Zoom • Free

🌱 Friday, October 30: Explore how fermentation influences flavor, consistency, and cup quality with Tim Heinze in Understanding Coffee Fermentation.
9 AM–noon HST • Zoom • $50 HCA members / $100 non-members

Connecting people, sharing knowledge, and supporting Hawaiʻi’s coffee producers-this is part of HCA’s work throughout the year.

DM for registration links.

10/15/2026

Hawaiʻi coffee is many places. One industry.

The Hawaiʻi Coffee Association brings together growers, processors, roasters, retailers, educators, allied businesses, and coffee professionals from across the state. Our work is centered on one goal: advancing Hawaiʻi coffee through alignment, standards, programs, and leadership. Over the next month, we’ll be sharing more of the people, priorities, and work behind HCA because an association should be more than a calendar of events. It should be a place where an industry can see itself, connect, and move forward together.

Follow HCA this month as we reintroduce the work of the Association. Members: share this post and tell us what part of HCA you want to see more of.

10/12/2026

☕️ Can you taste what’s happening in your coffee?

Cupping isn’t just for judges, buyers, or Q graders. It’s one of the most useful tools a coffee producer can have.

This Thursday, October 15th, join HCA and instructor Tim Heinze for introduction to cupping, the first workshop in our quality and practice education series.

Whether you’ve been growing coffee for decades or are still developing your sensory skills, cupping can help you:

☕️ better understand what’s in the cup
☕️ identify quality, consistency, and potential defects
☕️ connect processing decisions to flavor
☕️ build the vocabulary to talk about your coffee with buyers
☕️ better prepare your coffee for evaluations, competitions, and opportunities like the best of Hawaii

This is practical education designed for Hawaii coffee’s community, not a test, and you don’t need to be a sensory expert to participate.

📆 Thursday, October 15
⏰9am-11am HST
💻 live online via Zoom

The workshop is just a few days away. If you’ve been thinking about learning more about cupping, now’s the time.

👉🏻register through link in our bio

10/10/2026

Coffee communities are built by showing up.

Today, members of the O’ahu coffee community are gathering at Maunawili for hands-on farm workday led by Juli Burden .

Events like this are about more than getting work done. They create opportunities to learn from one another, understand the coffee from seed to cup, and strengthen the relationships that hold our industry together.

The HCA’s role is to help make those connections possible across Hawaii.

Follow along in stories today and tell us: what kind of hands-on member event would you like to see in your community?

10/10/2026

Who is the Hawai’i coffee Association?

We are a statewide industry association, working to strengthen Hawai’i coffee by connecting people, sharing knowledge, supporting quality, representing industry needs, and creating opportunities for the communities that make Hawai’i coffee possible.

Our members and partners are from across the coffee value chain, from farms (big and small) and mills to roasters, researchers, retailers, educators, and ancillary businesses.

Hawai’i coffee is not one place, one typical type of farm, or even one perspective. Each growing region and community brings its own story, challenges, knowledge, history, and strengths.

Our role is to help connect those voices and move the industry forward together

Here on Instagram, you can expect more than just announcements.

We’ll be sharing practical education, regional stories, producer, a member of voices, opportunities, industry, updates, and a closer look at the work HCA is doing throughout the year.

If Hawai’i coffee matters to you, you’re in the right place!

Follow along and stay connected.

08/13/2026

⚠️ Storm Preparedness Reminder

HCA encourages coffee farmers across Hawai‘i to prepare now for the developing storm. Secure equipment, drying areas and stored coffee; clear drains and waterways; protect farm structures; and check generators, fuel and emergency supplies.

Conditions and forecasts may change quickly. Stay tuned to county’s emergency alerts and follow guidance from local officials.

Please prepare early and stay safe. 🌱

08/10/2026

We’re excited to begin preparations for the 2027 Best of Hawaiʻi Competition and Auction. This year’s event was a tremendous success, and we’re excited to begin building on that momentum

Join us for a Town Hall Meeting where we will share our vision for 2027, walk through the proposed competition and auction process, discuss important timeline updates, and answer your questions.

We’ll cover:
The proposed 2027 competition timeline
How the inaugural Best of Hawaiʻi Auction will work
Competition categories and key updates
Producer participation and expectations
Opportunities for questions and feedback

Whether you competed this year or are considering participating in the future, we encourage you to join the discussion. We also welcome you to invite other Hawaiʻi coffee producers, processors, or industry members who may be interested in learning more about the competition and auction.

We believe the Best of Hawaiʻi is more than a competition—it’s an opportunity to continue strengthening the reputation of Hawaiʻi coffee, connect producers with buyers, and create new market opportunities for our industry.

We look forward to having you join us!

DM us your email and we will send you the zoom link!

08/01/2026

The conference may be wrapping up, but the celebration of Hawai‘i coffee continues today at the Maui Coffee Association’s Seed to Cup Festival! ☕️🌱

Stop by the HCA booth to taste some of the top-scoring coffees from the 2026 Best of Hawai‘i Cupping Competition, representing exceptional producers from across the state.

Come say aloha, meet members of our coffee community and taste some of the outstanding coffees being grown across the Hawaiian Islands. We would love to see you!

📍 Maui Seed to Cup Festival
☕ Find us at the HCA booth

08/01/2026

Celebrating the Best of Hawai‘i!

The results of the 2026 Best of Hawai‘i Cupping Competition are officially in. This year’s competition celebrated exceptional coffees, dedicated producers and the remarkable diversity found across Hawai‘i’s growing regions.

Congratulations to our three highest-scoring coffees:

🥇 Miranda’s Farms — 87.84
🥈 Hula Daddy Kona Coffee — 87.57
🥉 Elepoki Coffee — 87.27

Swipe through to see the division and district winners from Ka‘ū, Kona, Maui, Hāmākua and O‘ahu.

Mahalo to every producer who submitted a coffee, along with the judges, organizers, volunteers and supporters whose time and expertise made this competition possible.

Congratulations to all of this year’s winners and to Hawai‘i’s entire coffee community. 🌱

View the complete list of 80+ results at www.hawaiicoffeeassoc.org or through the link in our bio.

08/01/2026

☕️🏆 The votes are in!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 HCA People’s Choice Coffee Awards:
🥇 First Place Ka‘ū Coffee Mill LLC

🥈 Second Place Ulu Farmstead Coffees

🥉 Tied for Third Place Greenwell Farms Hawaiian Goat Coffee

Throughout the conference, attendees tasted coffees submitted by producers and roasters from across Hawai‘i and voted for the coffee that stood out most in their cup.

Mahalo to every company that shared its coffee, every attendee who tasted and voted, and Monarch Coffee for generously sponsoring this year’s People’s Choice program. This celebration would not have been possible without you.

Please join us in congratulating our winners and all participating coffees! 🌱☕️
Check the complete list of coffees served in the comments⬇️
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