• 1: Home
• 2: Shop
• 4: Estate Coffee Club
• 5: About Us
  • 5.1: History
  • 5.2: Production
    • 5.2.1: Tour
  • 5.3: Contact Us
    • 5.3.1: Wholesale
    • 5.3.2: Employment
• 6: Sustainability
  • 6.1: Agricultural Practice
  • 6.2: Energy Production
• 7: Visit Us
  • 7.2: Coffee Tasting
  • 7.3: Walking Tour
  • 7.4: Merchandise
  • 7.5: Directions/Map
  • 7.6: Visit Kauai
• 8: FAQs

Kauai Coffee History

Kauai Coffee Company got its start in the early 1800s as McBryde Sugar Company, one of the first sugar growers in Hawaii. Today, Kauai Coffee Company and its parent company, Alexander and Baldwin, own a total of 22,000 acres of land on Kauai. The transformation from McBryde Sugar Company to Kauai Coffee Company in 1987 represents Hawaii’s largest diversified agricultural project in the past 50 years.

The Kauai Coffee venture experienced a severe setback in 1992, when Hurricane Iniki inflicted $8.5 million in damages to the coffee crop. The future of Kauai Coffee, and all of Kauai, looked bleak. Fortunately, both made a comeback, and in 1996, Kauai Coffee’s harvest exceeded the volume of coffee produced by the entire Kona region.