People’s Choice Coffee Tasting Competition

KAILUA KONA, HAWAII, July 23, 2007 - The second annual People’s Choice Coffee Tasting Competition, held last weekend at the Lanihau Center in Kailua-Kona, drew a record 300-plus tasters who happily slurped samples, and voted for their favorite Kona Coffee.

The visitors, from 18 different Mainland states, Oahu, Canada, and Trinidad and Tobago, sampled coffees from 14 different Kona coffee estates. The event is an intrinsic part of the two-day Kona Coffee Fair put on by the Kona Coffee Farmers Association and the Lanihau Center. The Fair aims to entertain, as well as educate visitors and local residents about 100% Kona coffee, one of Hawaii Island’s most famous signature crops.

Winners for 2007:

Gold Medal Awards:

Daily Fix Coffee, owned by Sandra Scarr

Mountain Thunder, owned by Trent and Lisa Bateman


Silver Medal Awards:

Kona King Coffee, owned by Randy Lofquist & John Mitchell

Cherry Hill Estates, owned by Tom & Jacque Belcastro


Bronze Medal Awards:

Princess Radha Farm, owned by Yoko Harada Trygstad & Page Trygstad


The Kona Coffee Farmers Association is a volunteer, non-profit, community-based organization of coffee farmers with the mission to promote and protect the economic interests of Kona coffee farmers who grow and sell 100% Kona coffee and to seek greater legal protection of the Kona coffee name.