Kona Coffee - Best Coffee in America : Forbes

Forbes Reviews our Kona Coffee; Find out why Forbes said our Kona is the Best Coffee in America. 

 We particularly liked the message on the cover, so we wanted to share it with you. We agree with the sentiment. At Koa Coffee plantation, as we lovingly hand pick and package our kona coffee beans, what matters most in the end - is quality.

BEST COFFEE: KOA PLANTATION Saying you've had a bad cup of Kona coffee is like saying you've seen snow in the Caribbean. This stuff is wonderfully smooth and its lack of a bitter aftertaste makes you think nothing of having that second cup…or third. Just don't get fooled into buying "Kona blends" that sometimes combine the price tag of the real thing with less than stellar-quality beans from other sources. The genuine article is grown on the Big Island, home of volcanic soil, high elevation and abundant morning sunshine. For the freshest coffee experiences, order from the Koa Plantation in Captain Cook; it's a family-run operation, situated on the leeward side of Mauna Loa, that will ship its peaberry, estate-or prime-grade beans to you in half-pound, pound or five-pound bags of "Baba's Beans." An order placed from the East Coast on a recent Friday afternoon arrived at its caffeine-deprived owner's desk the following Monday morning via priority FedEx. Decaf is available—but why? Koa Plantation; (808) 328-8803, www.koacoffee.com.

BEST HAMMOCKS: PAWLEYS ISLAND ROPE HAMMOCKS No word in English denotes contentment like "hammock," and it is sweetly ironic, at a time when Americans are working harder than ever, to know that we still make the world's best. Anyone who has spent a late summer's afternoon dozing in a Pawleys Island Rope Hammock knows the ergonomic rapture of this delightfully low-tech device, designed in 1889 by Carolina riverboat pilot Joshua Ward. Captain Ward wanted something more comfortable on those steamy Southern evenings than a grass-filled mattress. His innovation was stretcher bars that allow for knot-free ropes. Here American ingenuity and craftsmanship combine in a noble calling: sending you to dreamland with a Huck Finn smile. Pawleys Island Hammock Co.; (800) 643-3522.

BEST PLACE TO BE INCARCERATED: EGLIN FEDERAL PRISON CAMP When the prosecutor produces the photographs of you with your big paw in the cookie jar, it may be high time to turn to your legal team and whisper, "Eglin?" Located along the Florida Gulf coast in Ft. Walton Beach, Eglin Federal Prison Camp has long had a five-star reputation among the Club Fed facilities. Inmates, mainly white-collar types serving sentences of fewer than ten years, have been known to arrive carrying golf clubs and cell phones. There is, alas, no golf course, but there is tennis, yoga, boccie, a sunbathing beach and, oh, yes, there are no fences. Lights out is about tenish.
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