Great comments on the competition, but thank you especially the insight into Maui Moka Ka’anapali. As chance would have it, I have 1.5lbs left of a 5lb “order” from a 2003 “wild crop” picking, and roasted up some yesterday (going to give it a few days rest before trying). It’s incredibly baggy now, but well, misty memories of an amazing, and long gone coffee.

I did some online research tonight, and turned up this:
http://www.kaanapalicoffeefarms.com/coffee/coffeeinkaanapali.html

It’s maybe good news. maybe not. Looks like a yuppy-fing of the remaining 100 acres that Kauai managed to retain of the original 500 acre farm. Supposedly about 25 acres are still the Moka / Yemen stock. Kinda weird arrangements too - sell the land for $1.5, $1.8 million to yuppy farmers, but the farmers’ have to turn over their crop to some collective.

Maybe someday soon, we’ll be seeing Maui Moka fresh again. If we ever do, and it’s even close to what it was like in 1998-2001, I’ll buy a deep freeze and pull a George Howell on 50, 100 lbs a year of it.