If you’re a java junkie head straight to Hawaii’s Kona Coffee Cultural Festival, happening on the Big Island on November 2-11, 2007. It’s Hawaii’s oldest food festival and the only coffee festival in the United States. The theme of the festival this year is ‘Kona Coffee Tradition of Excellence’.
The festival offers a variety of events, ranging from coffee samplings to several contests, such as the coffee bean picking contest and a Little Miss Kona Coffee pageant. This year’s celebration will have nearly 50 events including tastings, art exhibits, cupping competition, farm tours, contests, parades and sporting events. For the first time, the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival will include a professional espresso training workshop during its 10-day celebration of Hawaii’s coffee heritage.
Gevalia Kona Coffee Cupping Competition is the festival’s big event in which a panel of international Master Cuppers determines the best coffee of the year. Take coffee farm tour attend workshops on growing, roasting and brewing coffee, take part in a coffee-picking contest and tastings, watch a parade and enjoy sipping Kona coffee in style!
